• What is this?

Do now – significance of today?

Reminder of Homework• Vocab Words – Reminder - Quiz Friday.• 56. Easter Island• 57. Aerobic cellular respiration• 58. Precipitation• 59. Potential Energy• 60. Kinetic Energy• FCA Essay Due today in class. Hard copy. • Re-reading from the text – all of Chapter 8 pages, be

ready to cover it fairly quickly Thursday.• Friday – Read pages Chapter 9 pages 223 - 233

New Material• How to write an Essay – Step one:• In August of 1914, the opening shots of “the Great War”

were fired, but these hostilities seemed to surprise no one in Europe or anywhere else in the world. The aggression started long before the opening shots in the late summer of 1914. The eruption of World War I was destined to happen and the causes of the outbreak were the imperialistic rivalry among the European powers, the rampant nationalism, and Social Darwinism. If the European powers could have foreseen the collision course that their leaders set in motion, millions of innocent lives may have been spared as well as preventing the political upheaval, which lead to the outbreak of World War II.

New Material• China’s One Child policy • Why was it instituted? When was it instituted

and why then?• What are the issues with it?• Does the US have a form of population control?

Explain• What are the issues with a rapidly growing

population?

New Material• Birth Rate:• 19 births/1,000 population• 131.4 million births per year• 360,000 births per day• 15,000 births each hour• 250 births each minute• 4 births each second of

every day

• Death Rate:• 8 deaths/1,000 population• 55.3 million people die

each year• 151,600 people die each

day• 6316 people die each hour• 105 people die each

minute• almost 2 people die each

second 

New Material• Population Clock• http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop

New Material• Thomas Malthus – who is he and why is he

important?• Paul Ehrlich – who is he and why is he

important?• One prediction that they had was: “population

growth has indeed contributed to famine, disease, and conflict.” Is this true?

New Material• Strong nations tend to have slow population

growth. Why?• What is IPAT?• Impact = Population x Affluence x technology,

sometimes add S for sensitivity, meaning development in a sensitive area.

• Demography? What is it?

New Material• Age Structure diagrams

New Material• Populations are determined by:• Birth rate, death rate, immigration rate and

emigration rates.• TFR – Total Fertility Rates:• Average number of children born per woman

her lifetime• RF – Replacement Fertility:• Think of your family. If you an only child then

negative growth, one sibling then zero growth..

New Material• Transition Demographics – explain the chart

below