don't panic video worksheet

Question 1

What was world population at the time we invented agriculture?

Answer 1

10 million

Question 2

When did we get the first billion people?

Answer 2

1800s ( 1804 )

Question 3

This coincides with?

Answer 3

industrial revolution

Question 4

Why are some families in places like Bangladesh having smaller families?

Answer 4

to be able to afford their families

Question 5

What does the fertility rate measure?

Answer 5

number of babies per women

Question 6

Generally, what is the relationship between average life span and fertility rates? How might we explain this relationship?

Answer 6

the less the babies per women, the higher the life expectancy

Question 7

Which part of the world is still experiencing high fertility and short life spans?

Answer 7

Africa

Question 8

How is education, especially for women, related to lower fertility?

Answer 8

they get married later in life so less children, more busy

Question 9

How does an improvement in child mortality result in lower fertility?

Answer 9

parents don’t have the worry for the survival of their kids anymore so they make less

Question 10

How did the industrial revolution result in lower child mortality?

Answer 10

better hygiene, vaccines, treatment, more food, better wages etc…

Question 11

When will we most likely reach the end of fast population growth? What will be the appox. global population at that time?

Answer 11

around 2100 and 11 billion

Question 12

What is “peak child”? When did it occur?

Answer 12

the highest number of children in the world and around 2000

Question 13

Can we avoid the inevitable population growth that is expected to occur? Why or why not?

Answer 13

no because we already reached the child peak

Question 14

As we approach the end of the current century where will the largest increase in population occur? Where will 80% of the world’s population live?

Answer 14

largest increase will be in Africa, Africa and Asia will have 80% of the world pop

Question 15

Compare the daily income of the richest billion people to the poorest billion.

Answer 15

Poor: long and hard day, no easy and available resources, big families

Question 16

What is the global literacy rate at the time of this video?

Answer 16

80%

Question 17

What has happened to the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in recent decades?

Answer 17

it has decreased

Question 18

What is the answer to helping Africa and poverty?

Answer 18

better help from the government + the world

Question 19

What is perhaps one problem with the expected reduction in global poverty?

Answer 19

there is more energy used and needed

Question 20

Why might we argue that overpopulation does exist in the richest countries even though they have the smallest populations and smallest families?

Answer 20

because they use too much resources and energy so they consume for more people.

Question 21

Why is so important that the rich countries change our lifestyles before we expect the poor countries to change theirs?

Answer 21

because it is the richest that consume the most; the poorest countries almost have no impact on climate change.

Question 22

what are the three factor of population growth

Answer 22

fertility, mortality, demographic momentum

Question 23

what is the infant mortality

Answer 23

ratio of death of infant age 1 or less per 1000 live births, positive correlation with fertility ( nb of death divided by nb of birth times 1000 )

Question 24

what is the train analogy

Answer 24

the continued overall growth in pop due to the presence of a lot of teens even if the fertility rate decreases. that explains how the world pop won’t stop growing