Sunday, October 5, 2014

Monday October 6

Population & Environment

Use this document to investigate the relationship between population growth and environmental effects. The goal of this activity is for you to understand how the populations of different nations are changing and the environmental effects associated with those changes.
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
UN Designated Country Designation Status

The vocabulary list for this week is:

  1. doubling time
  2. histogram
  3. inner city syndrome
  4. lag effect
  5. less developed nation
  6. more developed nation
  7. developing nation
  8. over population
  9. overshoot
  10. baby boom
  11. total fertility rate
  12. replacement fertility rate
  13. zero population growth
The legislative policies that we will discuss this week are:
  1. Thailand population growth policy
  2. China population growth policy
The fun facts and quotes for today are:

"human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells
"you cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today" -A. Lincoln

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