The human population is increasing at a rate of 1.13 percent each year. Challenge Question: If it continues to grow at this rate, what effect might this have on the environment and on people?

• Increase in pollution

• Lack of jobs

• Lack of natural resources

• Increase in forest destruction

• Increase in disease

True or False? For most of human existence, our population increased slowly.

• True

• False

As civilization advanced, humans developed:

• More reliable food supplies

• Agriculture

• Trade

• New Technologies

• Cities

During the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, human population growth increased rapidly due to improvements in:

• Nutrition

• Sanitation

• Medicine

• Public Health

The scientific study of human populations is called _________.

Scientists have identified several social and economic factors that affect human population growth:

• Birth rates

• Death rates

• Age structure

• Disease

• Diet

Why does the US have the most deaths per capita due to COVID?

• A very large young population

• A very large population compared to the smaller countries on this graph

• Very high quality of life that has led to a very large elderly population

• Living in America makes you more vulnerable to COVID

• The environment of America increases your chances of getting COVID

During the past century, population growth in the US, Japan, and much of Europe ________ dramatically.

• slowed

• increased

• stopped

• reversed

Which stage of Demographic Transition is the US currently in?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4

• Stage 5

Which stage of Demographic Transition are parts of Africa or South America currently in?

• Stage 1

• Stage 2

• Stage 3

• Stage 4

• Stage 5