Human Population Growth Web Exercise
Directions Part One: Access a reputable website and answer
these questions below.
1) What is the current world population?
2) What is the world’s current growth rate?
3) Knowing this growth rate, how long until the world
population doubles (Use the doubling time equation)?
Directions Part Two: Access the website http://www.popexpo.ined.fr/english.html (APES Useful Links:
Human Population Webquest . Look through the website. Answer the questions below.
1) What was the world population when you were born?
2) What is the United Nations estimate for population size in 2100?
3) How many people are born each day?
4) What factors keep family sizes smaller than 15?
5) Examine average age of marriage in different areas of the world. How dies it compare to what you
might have expected?
6) Compare the length of breastfeeding in different areas of the world. Why do you think the length is so
low in the US?
7) What percentage of people in Africa use birth control? Why do you think this might be?
8) How many people die each day in the world? How does this number compare to the number of
people born each day?
9) Is increasing world population due to an increase in the birth rate or a decrease in death rate?
Explain.
10) What factor causes population size to start increasing slowly at 100,000 BC?
11) Did the Bubonic Plague have much influence on the growth of the world population?
12) What is your reaction to the information presented on this website? (At least 1 paragraph in length)
13) Write at least two questions that you have about this topic.