(Optional) Describe how population growth is related to environmental degradation and global food insecurity.

Description should include

  • factors that increase or decrease population figures
  • defining and explaining
    • climate change
    • decreasing biodiversity
    • deforestation
    • food insecurity
    • ozone layer destruction
    • pollution
    • resource depletion
    • vector-borne diseases
    • waste management.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What factors influence population growth?
  • Where is population growth being limited?
  • How can one use biological and cultural carrying capacity to control urban, suburban, and rural populations?
  • What is the result of unmanaged population growth?
  • What is the boom-bust theory?
  • How can human population growth lead to global food insecurity?