Population Growth

• Lecture and Review Population Growth Introduction
• Human Population Growth
• Lecture and Review Introduction to Ecology II: Population Growth Simulation
• Human Population Growth Main Topics
  • Optional Review: Population growth terminology
  • Optional Review: on Human Population Growth
  • VHEMT
  • Main reason why human population continues to rise is here.
  • Movies
    • World Population Passes 6.6 Billion (6 min)
    • Easter Island Environmental Disaster Movie (5 min)

• Go to Secret Readings and access "Beyond Malthus" in the Ecology Section

• Pentagon Report

• Human Life Table. NOTE: You can do either version, but if you do the Cave Hill version, be sure to read the section on demographics and the human development index (HDI) in the demographics version. Also look over the link to the US Census.

  • Human Life Table Laboratory (Cave Hill Cemetery version).

  • Human Life Table Laboratory (Demographics Version).

• Ecological Simulation using Excel
  • You can get the lab in Pig Latin here. A Jive version is here.
  • A quick tutorial on using Excel is here  
  • Geek link on simulation.
• Population Growth
  • Stella Activity for Population Growth in Secret Readings.