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How many humans are currently on our planet?
Around 6 billion (6.8 billion as of 2010)
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What year is it predicted that the human population will reach earth’s carrying capacity for humans?
2050
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How many humans are projected to be on the planet in 2050?
Over 9 billion
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How many Earth’s are needed to maintain our current rate of resource consumption?
3 ½
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What is the difference in the average life expectancy of humans in developed vs. developing countries?
10 years. (77 developed countries, 67 developing countries.)
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Which country currently has the 3rd highest human population?
United States with 310 Million people
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Which country currently has the 2nd highest human population?
India (1.17 BILLION – Projected to have the highest population by 2050)
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Which country currently has the highest human population?
China (1.33 Billion)
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Name one of the two factors that account for larger families in India.
Child work and care for parents in old age.
Preference for male child: keeping have kids until a male is born.
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Describe 2 aspects of China’s population control policy (implemented to prevent mass starvation).
One-Child (families who stick to it are rewarded with better houses, more food, better jobs, health care, bonuses)
Government provides family planning: contraceptives, sterilization, and abortions for married couples.
What does it mean?100
What is the growth of low-density development on the edges of cities and towns?
Urban Sprawl
What does it mean? 200
What is the number of babies out of every 1,000 born each year who dies before their first birthday?
Infant mortality
What does it mean? 300
What is the estimate of the average number of children per woman born to women of childbearing years in a given population in a year?
Total Fertility Rate
What does it mean?400
Name 2 forms of mass transit.
Buses, Trains, trolleys
What does it mean?500
What is the difference between emigration and immigration?
Emigration = individuals moving OUT of a population (decrease)
Immigration = individuals moving INTO a population (increase)
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Truth: Early and modern agriculture has allowed more people to be fed per unit of land area.
What is the consequence?
Consequence: Human population has increased dramatically over the past 200 years.
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Truth If : (births + immigration) - (deaths + emigration) = Positive Number
Population INCREASES
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Truth: The United States is a car-centered nation.
Name one consequence.
Consequences:
*US uses more fossil fuel than it can produce domestically.
*Release more greenhouse gases
*Neighborhoods are spread out
*More Urban Sprawl
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Many countries offer family planning, economic opportunities for women, and schooling for girls.
Consequence: Those countries have a Lower birth rate.
Truth and Consequences500
Truth: The United States has a lack of health care for poor women while they are pregnant, lack of health care for children of the poor after birth, and high birth rate for teenage women.
Consequence: Higher infant mortality rate than other developed countries.
