Grade 6 · Social Studies · Lesson 15

Human geography: where people live

There are about 8 billion people on Earth, but they are spread out very unevenly. Some regions are packed shoulder-to-shoulder with millions of inhabitants per square kilometer; other regions are almost empty. Why? Geography (mountains, climate, fresh water, soil) sets the stage, but human choices (jobs, war, opportunity, family) decide where people actually end up living.

What this lesson teaches

1Explain what population density measures and why it varies across the world
2Define urbanisation and describe the global shift from rural to urban living
3Distinguish push factors from pull factors and give examples of each
4Name several megacities and the countries they sit in

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