The Human Population

Health and disease can determine a population's

• life or death

• hopes and dreams

• happiness or discontent

• religious beliefs or politics

Today the human population of Earth is

• more than 10 billion

• more than 6.7 billion

• less than 7 million

• less than 9.9 million

Experts strongly disagree over

• how to define exponential growth

• the predicted world population for the year 2050

• whether the human population will stop growing

• how much the human population has grown in the last 500 years

In most areas of the world today

• people are richer than ever in human history

• people are smarter than ever in human history

• people weigh more than ever in human history

• people live longer than ever in human history

Dramatic growth occurs when a population grows at an ever-increasing rate.

• true

• false

Today the growth rate of the human population is decreasing.

• true

• false

Advances in arts and sciences have improved human health and allowed for tremendous population growth.

• true

• false

As the human population grows, the demand for natural resources stays the same.

• true

• false

If population and the demand for natural resources continue to grow at the present rate, the human population will be too large for Earth to support.

• true

• false

The United States' population grows when more people are born worldwide each year than die worldwide each year.

• true

• false