Posted by 2KJERSTEN.(: on September 16, 2011 at 9:41am
We started with the video today...1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?population growth.2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth?Disappearing forests, Polution, threating animals and species, damage nature,3. How does world population growth effect water, food and energy?We wont have enough food or clean water for eveyone.4. Where is the world's population data held?New york city, The United Nations5. What is the United Nations?World Wide Peace keeping organization6. How many people will live on Earth by 2050?9 billion7. Where is the greatest population growth going to take place?8. What has kept the world's population in check for most of human history?9. Why did the population boom starting in 1800?Death rates decreased because of medicine.10. What did Malthus say the problem of population growth is?The power of population to keep growing is eventually going to go on to out grow food.11. How many people lack access to safe drinking water in the world?half of the world12. What is the importance of water to people and Earth?its very important. you need water to live/survive.13. Why not just desalinate sea water?14. What did Iowa farmer Norman Borlaug do that helped the world's food supply?15. What are some developed countries doing in developing countries in regards to farming?taking other developing land.16. According to the host of the video, what three things must people do to ensure that future generations have enough food and resources?1.stop concuming so many resorces2.change technology3.reduce growth of technology17. What did China and India do in the 1970's to try to reduce population? Which country was successful?the people who lived in China could only have 1 child. the Indian government also tryed to bring their growth rate down, but they failed. China was sucessful.18. What two things are very important to women(and men as well) in helping bring down the fertility rate?1. education2. freedom to run their own lives.3.condoms4.birth control
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