Human Population Quiz
Population Quiz What is the current world population? What is the current U.S. population? What is the average number of children per family in the U.S.? In Germany? In Uganda? What are the 5 most populated cities in the world? How has the world population changed in the past 200 years? Why did this happen? If you were to squish together every person on Earth, how big of an area would that take up?
Population Size Now: In 2050: In US? In world? Over 317 million Over 7.15 billion In 2050: 392 million About 9.3 billion
Children per Family In US? 2.0 In Germany? 1.3 In Uganda? 7.1
What are the 5 largest cities in the world? Shanghai, China (18 million) Lagos, Nigeria (16 million) Karachi, Pakistan (14 million) Istanbul, Turkey (13.9 million) Mumbai, India (12.5 million)
Four Largest Cities in the U.S. NYC – 8.4 million LA – 3.8 million Chicago – 2.9 million Houston – 2.3 million
Human Population Growth
Human Population Growth Year Reached Years to Reach 1 billion 1850 Tens of thousands 2 billion 1930 80 3 billion 1960 30 4 billion 1974 14 5 billion 1987 13 6 billion 1999 12
Factors Affecting Human Population Size Human population is currently growing exponentially: What will be the ultimate size of the human population? What is Earth's carrying capacity? (How many humans can Earth support?) © Brooks/Cole Publishing Company / ITP
What do you think? If we cannot provide the basic necessities for 1 billion people today, how will we provide these necessities to an additional 3 billion people in 2050?
Where would the world’s population fit? Population maps
Population Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0&feature=topvideos_education http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSX4ytEfcE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPCQrxBUOU&NR=1
CLOCK World & US clocks