Assignment One

After doing lessons one, two, and three, please answer the following questions. To answer some of the questions you have to visit the links (web sites) on every lesson. Also, you may used the text book to answer some of the questions. Please answer the questions in MS word, attach your answers to an e-mail and send it to me. Please be clear and precise, use complete sentences.

  1. What is Environmental Health?
  2. Why do we have to be concern with our environment?
  3. With regard to population dynamics, what is carrying capacity of the environment?
  4. How does the carrying capacity of the environment affect population growth? (Carrying capacity web site).
  5. Populations can grow exponentially or arithmetically. Explain.
  6. What is the population of the State of Indiana? How does it compares to the population in 1990? (US Census web site).
  7. What is the world popualtion today (exact number)? How does it compares to the year you where born? (Watch the population grow every 30 seconds web site).
  8. What are some factors that may determined the increase or decrease of populations?
  9. Is human population really the problem? Do you agree with the author point of view? Why?
  10. What is demography?


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