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Please answer the following questions.

 

1. In what ways is human population ecology similar to and different from that of other organisms? Why is it difficult to determine a carrying capacity for humans?”

 

 

2. How has the global human population changed from pre-historic times to 1800? From 1800 to the present? What is projected over the next 50 years?

 

 

 

3. What is meant by population momentum and what is its cause? 

 

 

 

 

4.  How does the World Bank classify countries in terms of economic categories?

 

 

 

5.  How do the population profiles and fertility rates of developed countries differ from those of developing countries?

 

 

 

6.  Compare future population projections, and their possible consequences, for 

developed and developing countries.

 

 

7. What have been the two basic schools of thought regarding the demographic transition? How were these

 

8. What are two major agencies that promote development in poor nations, and how do they carry out their work?

 

9. What is the significance of globalization for economic and social development in the developing countries?

 

10. What are the MDGs? Where did they come from? Cite an example of one goal and the target used to measure progress in attaining it.

 

 

11. What are our viable options for increasing food production in the future?

 

12. What are the major advantages and problems associated with using biotechnology in food production? 

 

 

13. Discuss the causes of famine and severe hunger, and name the geographical areas most threatened by it.

 

14. Name and describe the properties of the three main components of soil texture.

 

 

15. What are the different layers, or horizons, that compose the soil profile? What makes each one distinct from the others?

 

 

 

16. What is organic food, and how is it now certified?