Human Populations

Links:

Worldometer

Questions: Page 5
1. Record the exact time you visit the webpage and the population at that moment.
2. What was the total change in population since you started this activity?
3. How much time has lapsed since you started this activity?
4. From your answers to Questions (2) and (3), what do you expect the change in population to be in one full day? Show your work.

Homework
Write a four-paragraph essay attached to the end of your answer sheet. Address the following questions throughout your paper. Be sure to include some of the new vocabulary terms you’ve learned from Page 2.
- What has happened to the human population in the last millennium?
- What is predicted to happen to the human population in the coming century?
- How do population dynamics differ in various regions of the world?
- How have we and how will we affect the planet? Draw from what we learned previously in class.

“The key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.”
- Edward O. Wilson