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From the Current Human Population Powerpoint Presentation, answer the following questions.
1. How many billions of people are in the world as of Dec 2004.
2. Define carrying capacity:
3. Define Cultural Carrying Capacity:
4. What is the world's carrying capacity for humans (called Biological carrying capacity):
From Notes on TED Video on Global Population Growth including between Poor and Rich
5. In the 1960 (before), how many boxes (billion of people) were rich and poor?
What kind of differences between the two groups.
6. Now in the 2000s(2010s), how many boxes and how are they distributed? What do we call the middle boxes? What can we say about the differences between the groups?
7. In 2040/2060, how many and how are the boxes distributed? What will be the only thing that brings the "poor" up to the middle?
8. Can the world handle these number of people and/or what must happen so it can handle the people?
From Human Population Growth and Environment Powerpoint Presentation
9. From 1970 to 1990, how many times more energy consumption from nuclear energy?
10. From 1970 to 1990, how many more times more energy consumption for "non-renewable energy" (natural gas, coal and oil)?
11. What is one main factor that is causing the deforesting of the land?
12. There is only a specific amount of freshwater on the planet. How much of it is left for the increase in global population (do we have enough freshwater for this increase)?
13. From 1950 to 1990, how many times increase in electrical use has occured?
14. If the all the world's people were to live how Americans live (their resource footprint, i.e. how much resource each American consumes), it would require how many earths (i.e. the total resource footprint of the earth)?
From Two Hydroponic Powerpoint Presentation.
15. Define hydroponics
16. What is the media and give the name of a few of this media (some times called the substrate).
17. Name the 6 types of hydroponic system and give a sentence for each describing its workings.
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