GEG 100 ONLINE! Cultural Geography Chapter 5

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One Billion and Counting:
The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth in India  

READ:

• Textbook: all [outline]
  • NOTE: Before you begin reading, go to: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw and write down the estimated populaiotn of the worls and the time. After about a half an hour later go back and again record the estimated world population and the time. You will use this information for activity 4.
• http://www.harper.cc.il.us/mhealy/g101ilec/sasia/sse/sspop/ssepopfr.htm
• JUST FOR FUN:
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html and http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

ACTIVITIES: 

Items to Hand In:

• Activity 1: Question 1.1
• Activity 2: Questions 2.1–2.30
• Activity 3: Question 3.1
• Activity 4 added by you instructor:
  • Before you begin reading, go to: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw and write down the estimated populaiotn of the worls and the time. After about a half an hour later go back and again record the estimated world population and the time. Comments?

    Hand in:

    • time 1 and world poulation
    • time 2 and world population
    • your comments (a paragraph will do)

Estimated Time Requirements

• Activity 1: Matching Pyramids 15 minutes
• Activity 2: Demographic Momentum 50-75 minutes
• Activity 3: Interpretive Essay 45 minutes
• Activity 4: 10 minutes

CONCEPTS / VOCABULARY

All "Keyterms"

Plus:

• immigration,
• emigration,
• rule of 70,
• concave,
• infanticide (p. 122),
• brain-drain (p. 122)

INSTRUCTOR'S NOTES and/or ADDITIONS TO TEXT READING

What does OVERPOPULATION mean?

• Is the world overpopulated?
• Is the United States overpopulated?

INSTRUCTOR'S NOTES and/or ADDITIONS TO ACTIVITIES

 From the Instuctor's Manual:

"This exercise is the easiest of all the computerized projects in terms of technical expertise. Everything is automated; students have only to point and click. Conceptually, however, this exercise is one of the most difficult to fully understand because students need to master complicated demographic terminology (age-specific birth rates, total fertility rate, replacement fertility, etc.) and a complicated demographic principle—that growth depends both on the current relationship between births and deaths and on the sizes of the populations at risk of giving birth and dying. These sizes are revealed in the age-sex pyramid."

WEB RESOURCES

• Census India. Census of India: http://censusindia.net/.
• Musee de L’homme. 6 Billion Human Beings: http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html.
• National Geographic. Millennium@National Geographic.com: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/2000/population/main.html.
• Population Council: http://www.popcouncil.org.
• Population Reference Bureau. World Population Data Sheet: http://www.prb.org/pubs/.
• U.S. Census Bureau. International Data Base (IDB): http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html.
• UN Demographic and Social Statistics: http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/.