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1 Changing Population Trends 9.2

2 Infrastructure The basic facilities and services that support a community (transportation, roads, schools, hospitals, etc.)

3 Population growth problems: overcrowding, pollution, overdeveloping land, logging, etc.

4 4 Problems Due to Rapid Growth: 1. Vegetation, water, and land are the resources most critically affected by rapid growth

5 2. A shortage of fuel wood Results in disease and malnutrition

6 3. Unsafe water Water diseases: Affect the intestines Ex. Cholera, Typhoid, & Dysentery

7 4. Lack of Land Arable Land Land that can be used to grow crops

8 Urbanization More people moving/living in cities Results in: increased traffic, less efficient infrastructure, reduction of farms and wildlife habitat, etc.

9 Least Developed Countries Show few signs of development and have increasing death rates, while birth rates remain high

10 Given priority for foreign aid and development programs

11 Managing Development & Population Growth: China, Thailand, & India have created ways to decrease fertility rates

12 *Public Advertising *Family Planning *Economic incentives *Legal punishments

13 The world human population is more than 6 billion Medium growth rates are predicted for the next 50 years


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