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HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN LIVE ON EARTH?

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You will have the double period to watch the following- see link below - and complete the questions. Best to have both open at the same time so you can watch and answer the questions. Just pause the video to answer the questions.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7s8ybc
Question 1
1.

How many people live on earth? (2009)

Question 2
2.

Give some examples of how quickly the world’s population is growing?

Question 3
3.

What is the population today?

Question 4
4.

How much does the world’s population increase by each year?

Question 5
5.

What are some of the issues we are facing as our population continues to grow?

Question 6
6.

Name two environmental problems that population density contributes to.

Question 7
7.

Not only the natural environment is threatened by population growth but it also
threatens....

Question 8
8.

What does the UN predict the world’s population will be by mid century?

Question 9
9.

By 2050 which country will have overtaken China to become the most populated in the world?

Question 10
10.

Name two countries where population will shrink?

Question 11
11.

The parts of the world where the population will grow fastest are rich or poor?

Question 12
12.

What do you think is the reason/s for this?

Question 13
13.

Since 1890 how have the world death rates been reduced?

Question 14
14.

What fundamental ingredient for life are we running out of?

Question 15
15.

How many people on earth lack this ingedient?

Question 16
16.

In the next 20 years how many people will live in areas without this vital ingredient?

Question 17
17.

Whatt do you think will happen as a result and why?

Question 18
18.

How much of the entire land surface is already being used to produce food?

Question 19
19.

What are the world’s richest countries acquiring from the very poorest?

Question 20
20.

Why are the HIC’s (high income countries) using land in LIC’s (low income countries)?

Question 21
21.

What is carrying capacity?

Question 22
22.

The earth’s population would need how many earths to support the world’s population with our current way of life?

Question 23
23.

What are the three ways we could reduce our impact on the earth?

Question 24
24.

What policy was adopted in China in 1979?

Question 25
25.

Why was it not successful do you think?

Question 26
26.

What did they encourage in the 1970’s in India to reduce the birth rate?

Question 27
27.

How does a good education help to reduce birth rates?

Question 28
28.

Across the world what fraction of married women don’t have access to contraception?