Population

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

Chapter 6:

What factors affect the population of a species??

What are some ways species interact that control populations?

Chapter 7:

Why do birth and death rates change as a country industrializes?

Why do different countries have such different rates of population growth?

What are some ways to help lower birth rates?

Media:

Isle Royale data

movie about Clostridium difficile

Here another movie about C. Diff.

Succession animation

World population animation

Population pyramid simulator

Demographic transition graph

Some good sites for our project

The World Factbook (CIA)

UNICEF country statistics

Solutions

1 -Building schools

2 - Family planning

3 - Micro finance (click on Kiva in the article for more info)

4 - Clean water

5 - Empowering women

More readings about solutions

Building schools II

Women's literacy I

Women's literacy II

Women's reproductive health

Consequences of over-population (a photo essay)

Answers to end of module questions:

Chapter 6

Module 19

1. d

2. c

3. d

4. b

5. a

Module 20

1. a

2. c

3. b

4. d

5. a

Module 21

1. d

2. a

3. c

4. b

5. d

End of chapter 6 test

1. a

2. d

3. a

4. b

5. c

6. b

7. d

8. a

9. b

10. c

11. c

12. b

13. d

14. c

15. c

16. d

17. b

18. a

19. c

20. d

Answers to end of module questions:

Chapter 7

Module 22

1. b

2. a

3. c

4. a

5. c

Module 23

1. d

2. d

3. b

4. c

5. c

End of chapter 7 test

1. a

2. b

3. d

4. d

5. c

6. d

7. c

8. c

9. a

10. d

11. d

12. d

13. c

14. c

15. a

16. d

17. c

18. b

19. a

20. d

Assignment:

Mini lesson on population

Reducing Fertility rate - Project

Vocabulary:

Organization of life

individual, population, community

, ecosystem, biosphere

Population growth

J curve, exponential growth, intrinsic

growth S curve, logistic growth model,

die off, overshoot, carrying capacity,

density independent and density

dependent factors

Describing populations

size, density, distribution, sex ratio,, age structure

Reproductive strategies

K selected, R selected, survivorship

curves

Species interaction

competition, competitive exclusion,

resource partitioning, predation,

keystone species

Symbiosis

mutualism, commensalism, parasitism

Types of succession

primary, secondary, aquatic

Factors that describe human population growth

Crude birth rate, Growth rate, fertility

rate, life expectancy, doubling time, population momentum,

population pyramid, replacement fertility

Some other factors that affect human population growth

infant mortality rate,

demographic transition,

developed countries, developing countries, social security, affluence (GDP) status of women, IPAT Equation,

Ecological footprint