Posted by 4Savanna on September 19, 2011 at 11:21am
No blog assignment this week.There is a test wendesday over current events.latin america test is next tuesday.5 forum posts this week.______________________________________________________________________________Current event: Obama is going to unveil $3 trillion in debt cuts. key term: graduated income tax- the more money you make the more taxes you pay, based on percentages. It has not passed yet, because it still has to go through congress.______________________________________________________________________________1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?humans and their population2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth?pollution, less food, and deforestation.3. How does world population growth effect water, food and energy?there would be less.4. Where is the world's population data held?in the united nations in new york5. What is the United Nations?group of countries that keep each other in security and stuff6. How many people will live on Earth by 2050?9 billion7. Where is the greatest population growth going to take place?least developed countries in the world, mostly southern africa8. What has kept the world's population in check for most of human history?nature, because we get diseases and natural disaster and stuff.9. Why did the population boom starting in 1800?because of control in death rates, because of medicine.10. What did Malthus say the problem of population growth is?the power of population is more powerful than the amount of resources avaliable, in other words it will lbe hard to provide food and safe drinking water.11. How many people lack access to safe drinking water in the world?1 billion people12. What is the importance of water to people and Earth?humans need it to live, we will die without, as will most other things like animals and plants.13. Why not just desalinate sea water?very expense and use a lot of energy and by products can be damaging to our seas.14. What did Iowa farmer Norman Borlaug do that helped the world's food supply?devieloped disease resistant and high yeilding crops and tought some countries how to use them.15. What are some developed countries doing in developing countries in regards to farming?buying land from them, farming it, and taking it to their own countries without selling it to the developing countries.16. According to the host of the video, what three things must people do to ensure that future generations have enough food and resources?start consuming less resources, use different technology, and reduce the growth of our population.17. What did China and India do in the 1970's to try to reduce population? Which country was successful?did the one child policy. and set up vesectamiy fairs.18. What two things are very important to women(and men as well) in helping bring down the fertility rate?educated and freedom to run their own lives and having access to contriception._________________________________________________________________________________To study go to the CWI page and there is the population powerpoint and links to everything else that will be on the test including the need to know/the current events, and the 9/11 things._________________________________________________________________________________then we went over the latin america map.
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