Population & Resources

Big Understanding

Population trends impact earth's finite resources and have far reaching effecs for our world and its people.


Essential Questions

1. What are the population trends around the world and what factors are influencing those trends?
-Disease and illness. Illness causes population trends because people die by having illness.

2. What is being done to stabilize global population growth?
-Birth. For example, Korean women raise children as soon as they get married. Although population is decreases because of death, it also increases because of birth.

3. How are resources distributed and utilized?
-Resources provide what people need for population growth

4. What are the effects of humanity's consumption of the world's resources?
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5. What are possible solutions to problems associated with population trends and use of resources?
-Since population is increasing fast, it might be better to be healthy because illness causes death and it might decreases.