1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?
Overpopulation
2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth?
Less food, overcrowding, more poverty, waste, pollution, less jobs deforestation
3. How does world population growth effect water, food and energy?
decreases it, or at least the quality of it.
4. Where is the world's population data held?
New York City UN
5. What is the United Nations?
Worldwide peacekeeping organization
6. How many people will live on Earth by 2050?
9 Billion
7. Where is the greatest population growth going to take place?
Niger
8. What has kept the world's population in check for most of human history?
Famine and lack of food of water
9. Why did the population boom starting in 1800?
control of death rates.
10. What did Malthus say the problem of population growth is?
11. How many people lack access to safe drinking water in the world?
12. What is the importance of water to people and Earth?
it supports life
13. Why not just desalinate sea water?
Takes energy is expensive and by products are harmful
14. What did Iowa farmer Norman Borlaug do that helped the world's food supply?
brought high yielding disease free crops
15. What are some developed countries doing in developing countries in regards to farming?
16. According to the host of the video, what three things must people do to ensure that future generations have enough food and resources?
17. What did China and India do in the 1970's to try to reduce population? Which country was successful?
18. What two things are very important to women(and men as well) in helping bring down the fertility rate?
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