Human+Populations


 * Readings:**[[image:Population-Seven-Billion-picture--India_Crowded-Streets.jpg width="305" height="205" align="right"]]


 * Goals: Human Population**
 * Assess the scope of human population growth and potential limits to its growth
 * Evaluate how human population. affluence, and technology affect the environment
 * Explain and apply thefundamentals of demography
 * Outline and assess the concept of demographic transition
 * Describe how wealth and poverty, the status of women, and family planning programs affect population growth
 * Characterize the dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
 * Analyze relationships among changes in population size, economic development, and resource consumption at global and local levels
 * Define fecundity, fertility, replacement level fertility, natality, mortality, and morbidity
 * Define immigration and emigration
 * Describe the scale of urbanization
 * Assess urban and suburban sprawl


 * Skills:**
 * Determine population density
 * Determine a population death rate
 * Determine a population's birth rate
 * Determine a population's growth rate using the formula
 * Determine populations change over time
 * Analyze population pyramids
 * Determine doubling time of a population

[|Are you typical? National Geographic] [|National Repository for Online Courses (NROC)] [|One Billion and Counting - Student Assignment] [|One Billion and Counting - Student Companion Site] [|Overpopulation is a Myth]
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