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Study Guide Questions
1. How many more people are born each year than die? How many people are born every minute?
2. How often is the population doubling?
3. What happened about 12 thousand years ago that removed one of the limits to population growth?
4. When did the earth's population reach one billion? Two billion?
5. When was three billion reached? How many people were there by 1987?
6. Where does most of the population growth occur?
7. What two factors work in opposition to determine the growth rate of a population?
8. What three things determine the birth rate of a population?
9. What is the fertility rate in the United States? In India? In Kenya?
10. What does replacement-level fertility rate mean? What is this rate for the world?
11. Discuss what "age-structure" is and how it affects population.
12. What is the childbearing age range? What are the prime reproductive years?
13. Why is it important to consider the relative number of girls below childbearing age when predicting future population growth?
14. What percent of the United States' population is under 15 years old? What is this percentage for developing countries?
15. Discuss why, despite the fact that fertility rates are beginning to decline around the world, population growth is accelerating.
16. What is the definition of "carrying capacity" of an environment?
17. Historically, what have people done when they exceed their local carrying capacity? Discuss this solution and why it will no longer work.
18. How many of the people in the world are hungry or malnourished? How many children die from hunger each day, throughout the world?
19. Discuss why emergency relief does not effectively help the hunger problem.
20. Even though India has had a population control program since 1952, its population has doubled since the program started. Why is this?
21. Why did China start its "one-child family" program?
22. Discuss zero population growth and why this is neither a political statement nor a moral mandate.
23. What is the estimated level of zero growth for the earth? When is this estimated to be achieved?
24. "How many humans can the earth feed?" is the wrong question. How must the question be phrased?
25. If the human species does not have the wisdom or courage to control its numbers, nature will do it for us. What can/will you do to help to control the population problems of the earth?
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