Welcome to your new project in algebra. You will use this website over the next two days to find out more about population growth.
Isn’t life more interesting when there are lots of people around? Then why should people be upset about the idea of a “population explosion”? Your task is to study different aspects of population growth and to find out why people are concerned. The websites below will help you to answer the following questions. Include your previous knowledge and conjectures when appropriate.
- For current world population: http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
- To fill in the world population data: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.htmland http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html
- Causes of population growth: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/7/98.07.02.x.html#c
- When looking for predicted world population in 2050 by the UN: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/pop918.doc.htm
- When looking for predicted world population in 2050 by the US: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.html
- Population growth and wildlife: http://www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/Poaching.pdf?docID=150
- Population growth and deforestation: http://www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/Deforestation.pdf?docID=287
- Population growth and global warming: http://www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/Global_Warming.pdf?docID=286
- Population growth and food supply: http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/m13/m13chap1.shtml
