- Definitions (ex. populations)
- Growth of populations and the factors that influence it
- Intrinsic growth rate
- Logistic growth carrying capacity
- Density-independent and density independent factors
- r- v. k-strategists
- Survivorship curves
- Methods of measuring population growth (ex. quadrat) - advantages/disadvantages of various methods
- Exponential population growth of humankind
- World's population and fastest growing nations, etc.
- Determining human population growth (ex. crude birth date, etc.)
- Calculating ARPC and doubling time (using the Rule of 70)
- Factors that affect birth/fertility/population growth
- Total Fertility Rate
- Demographic Transition
- Age Structure diagrams
From Chapter 4:
- Acute v. chronic disease
- Work of Thomas Malthus
- Effects of population growth
- Achieving zero population growth
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