Human Population: Growth, Demography, and Carrying Capacity
I.
Thailand
A.
Seven factors that reduced population growth
1.
2.
3.
Etc
B.
Four environmental issues thailand is still struggling
with
II.
high?
III.
1.
2.
3.
Etc
Factors Affecting Human Population Size
A.
Birth and Death Rates on Population Size
1.
Equations
2.
ZPG
B.
Global Fertility Rates figure 11-5
1.
Replacement level fertility
2.
Total fertility rate
3.
High areas
a.
Why
4.
Low areas
a.
Why
C.
Fertility Rates in the United States
1.
Growing or shrinking?
a.
Immigration
b.
Fertility Rate
(1)
TFR by race
c.
Factors affecting TFR over time in the US
D.
Factors Affecting Birth Rates and Fertility Rates
1.
List and describe each factor
E.
Factors Affecting Death Rates
1.
List and describe each factor
2.
Life expectancy
a.
Good News
b.
Bad News
3.
Infant Mortality Rate
a.
Importance
b.
What a high rate indicates
c.
Why is the US infant mortality rate still
Population Age Structure
A.
Age Structure Diagrams
1.
Define
2.
Affects of Age Structure on Population Growth
a.
Draw the 4 pyramid shapes and EXPLAIN why
they cause the growth pattern they do
B.
Population and Economic Projections using Age Structure
Diagrams
1.
The baby boomers
2.
The echo-boom
3.
Boomers and Social security
C.
Population Decline
1.
List the 5 factors
2.
Why do countries with RLF keep growing?
3.
Rapid populatin decline - describe effects
D.
The Graying of Japan
IV.
V.
VI.
Solutions: Influencing Population Size
A.
Immigration in the U.S. (Read green box - pg 250)
B.
Pros and Cons of Reducing Births
1.
Pros
2.
Cons
3.
The debate
C.
Cultural Carrying Capacity (read pgs 252-253)
1.
What do you think and why?
2.
Foreign aid princicples
D.
Demographic transition
1.
Preindustrial
2.
Transitional
3.
Industrial
4.
Post-industrial
E.
Reducing Births by Economic Development
F.
Family Planning to Reduce Births
1.
Define family planning
2.
Advantages
3.
Failures in developing countries
4.
The future of family planning
G.
Empowering Women to Reduce Births
1.
When do women have less children?
a.
b.
2.
Women�s role
a.
b.
c.
3.
Economic power and women
H.
Economic Rewards and Penalties to Reduce Births
1.
Explain
2.
China
3.
Work best when
a.
b.
c.
d.
Case Studies: Slowing Population Growth in India and China
A.
India�s Success at Controlling its Population Growth
1.
India�s situation
a.
Population growth
b.
Environmental/economic effects
2.
The solution
a.
Describe
b.
Problems
B.
China�s Success at Controlling its Population Growth
1.
China�s situation
a.
Population growth
b.
Environmental/economic effects
2.
The solution
a.
Describe
b.
Rewards
c.
Why it worked
d.
Problems with using this elsewhere
Cutting Global Population Growth Sustainability
A.
Government Plans to Reduce Population Growth
1.
List the 8 resolutions
2.
The power 3 combination