Human Population Growth

Question 1

What does the population depend on?

Answer 1

The size of a population depends on the number of individuals alive in the group.

Question 2

What does over population do?

Answer 2

Overpopulation = enhanced global warming, food & water shortages, desertification, species extinction, disease & health hazards & over-crowding.

Question 3

What can we do to limit the damage to the planet?

Answer 3

Two things we can do to limit the damage to the plant;
Slowing down our population growth.
Decreasing our consumption of limited resources.

Question 4

How is the human population affecting the CO2 levels in the atmosphere?

Answer 4

• Humans create a lot of pollution
• One type of pollution is carbon dioxide
• Much of the carbon dioxide gas is produced from fossil fuels which we burn.