Topic III. Population
A . Population Biology Concepts (Population ecology; carrying capacity; reproductive strategies; survivorship)
B . Human Population
1. Human population dynamics (Historical population sizes; distribution; fertility rates; growth rates and doubling times; demographic transition; age-structure diagrams)
2. Population size (Strategies for sustainability; case studies; national policies)
3. Impacts of population growth (Hunger; disease; economic effects; resource use; habitat destruction)
· Assess the scope of human population growth and potential limits to its growth
· Evaluate how human population, affluence, and technology affect the environment
· Explain and apply the fundamentals of demography
· Outline and assess the concept of demographic transition
o Identify the parts of the graph and the characteristics of a population at each point
· Describe how wealth and poverty, the status of women, and family planning programs affect population growth
· Characterize the dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
· Analyze relationships among changes in population size, economic development, and resource consumption at global and local scales.
· Define fecundity, fertility, replacement level fertility, natality, mortality, and morbidity
· Define immigration and emigration
· Perform math in regards to population
o Determine population density
o Determine a population's death rate
o Determine a population's birth rate
o Determine a population's growth rate using the formula
o Determine populations change over time
o Analyze population pyramids
o Determine doubling time of a population
People
Darwin
Nixon
Rachel Carson
Gifford Pinchot
John Stuart Mill
Adam Smith
Thomas Robert Malthus
Aldo Leopold
Events/Places
Love Canal
Exxon Valdez
Chernobyl
Bhopal
Dust Bowl
3 Mile Island
Deepwater Horizon
Kuwati Oil Fires
Cuyahoga River
3 Gorges Dam
Aral Sea
London’s Yellow Fog
Seveso Dioxin Cloud
Earth Day
Yucca Mountain
Limiting Factors
Exponential Growth
Logistical Growth
J-curve
S-curve
Population Momentum
Overshoot
Human Populations
Total fertility
Replacement level fertility
Population density
demography
pre-industrial
transitional
industrial
post-industrial
morbidity
mortality
natality
Rule of 72
One child policy
Ecological footprint
IPAT model
Emmigration
Immigration
Sex Ratio
Fecundity