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Human population

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    IGCSE - human population
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  • True or false? There are less than 7 billion people in the world.
    False!
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  • True or false? Life expectancy is the average period that a person may expect to live.
    True!
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  • True or false? Life expectancy is the same all over the world.
    False!
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  • What is the log phase?
    When the growth rate increases rapidly over time.
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  • What is the lag phase?
    When an organism is adapting to its new environment and growth is slow
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  • What is the stationary phase?
    When the growth of a population has slowed to zero
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  • What's the carrying capacity?
    The maximum size of a population that the environment can support
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  • Why did human population grow so rapidly in the last 300 years?
    Agriculture - Industrial revolution - Improved sanitation and health care - Scientific advances
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  • Name 2 antinatalist policies
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  • Name 2 pronatalist policies
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  • How can an aging population be a problem for a country?
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  • How can a young population be a problem for a country?
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  • What would you do to deal with an aging population? Why?
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  • What do you think of the one-child policy in China?
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  • Name 3 methods related to family planning
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  • True or false? The USA is 3rd in the population ranking, that means it's densely populated.
    False!
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