Assignment 29
Human Population Dynamics – Part 1 Practice Questions
Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability. Support your answers with details, calculations, evidence, examples, vocabulary and strong reasoning whenever possible.
1. Using the 2012 World Population Data Sheet determine the ARPC and doubling time for the “More Developed,” “Less Developed (Excluding China),” China, and the “Least Developed” portions of the world. Show your work.
2. Nigeria’s population is expected to surpass 400 million by the year 2050. After examining the 2012 World Population Data Sheet, explain why this is the case. Support your conclusion with data/calculations. NOTE: Nigeria is in Western Africa.
3a. Which continent is experiencing the most rapid population growth? Support your conclusion with data/calculations. Why do you think this is the case?
3b. Which inhabited continent (not Antarctica) is undergoing the slowest population growth? Support your conclusion with data/calculations. Why do you think this is the case?
4. Why is it rational for a poor couple in a developing country such as India to have four or five children? What changes might induce such a couple to consider their behavior irrational?
5. After examining and working with the 2012 World Population Data Sheet, what is your reaction? For example, was any information surprising? Do you have concerns? What, if anything, do you think should be done based on what you have observed and calculated?
Human Population Dynamics – Part 2 Practice Questions
Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability. Support your answers with details, calculations, evidence, examples, vocabulary and strong reasoning whenever possible.
After examining the 2012 World Population Highlights, you will be able to answer questions 6 and 7.
6. Based on Malawi’s age-structure diagram, what predictions can you make about its population growth? At which stage in the demographic transition do you think it is currently? How do you know?
7. Looking at the United States’ changes in age-structure…
a. What were some of the factors that caused this transition?
b. What are some of the implications of an increasingly older population?
8. Why is it important to think about and understand the age structure of a human population?
9. Based on what you know, how would you expect each of the following to change as per capita (per person) income increased? Support your answers.
a. Birth rates
b. Death rates
c. Average family size
d. Age structure of the population
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