Graphic heavy slides to engage students based on Essential Environment by Withgott and Laposota. Slides cover Chapter 6 on Human Population

1. Human Population
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSX4ytEfc
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2. Historical Population Growth

3. “As you improve health in society,
population growth goes down...
Before I learned about it, I thought
it was paradoxical.”
-Bill Gates

4. Human Population and Education of
Girls/women

5. China's one-child policy

7. Japan- oldest population, fewest
children. Why is this?

8. Limits to human population growth?

9. Population and Environmental
Quality
 S= sensitivity to environment
 Formula proposed in 1974 by Paul Ehrlich and
John Holden

10. Example: China and IPAT(S)

11. Demography: population size, density, distribution, and rates of birth, death,
immigration, and emigration of people.

12. Population Density and Distribution

13. Age Structure Diagrams or
Population Pyramids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
RLmKfXwWQtE

14. Age Structure Diagram

15. Birth, Death, Immigration and
Emigration

16. Fertility rate and population growth

17. Demographic Transition

18. Will the demographic transition
happen everywhere?

19. Population and Society:
Family Planning

20. Family Planning programs work

21. Empowering and Educating Women

22. Economics

23. Total Fertility Rate and Economy in
the USA

24. Wealth and environmental impacts

25. The future?

27. Happy Environmental News of the
Day: Great White Sharks Return to
Cape Cod

28. The Realm of the Great White
The great white is one of six shark species that are endothermic, which means they can
raise internal body temperatures over that of surrounding waters. This allows great whites
to inhabit extreme depths as well as cold waters of higher latitudes, while still being able
to function efficiently to capture swift and agile prey

29. Atlantic White Sharks
“Jaws” movie 1976
Targeted for trophies
Pop. declined to just 27% of the 1960 pop. size
Federally protected in 1997
After protection, increased to 67% of former pop.
Size
Increase in seal populations major factor
68 individual sharks identified off Cape Cod in
2014
In 2015 number increased ton 120 individual
sharks, 80 of them new
Changing public perceptions, beachgoers now
rescue beached sharks, research sharks are
given names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p444Zf-gcHU

30. Shark nursery discovered Aug. 2016
- Great white shark nursery off Montauk, NY helps explain recent
increase in sharks off Cape Cod
- White sharks mature at age 20, can live to age 70!
- Odds of being attacked by white shark 1 in 12 million!
- Yet they are still the stuff of nightmares, and great fear
- Worldwide, 200,000 sharks killed/day

31. Recovery of Sharks Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neeS69j0cXI

32. Jaws is BAAACK! Hurray!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neeS69j0cX
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