http://www.footprintcalculator.org/
This is a link to a fun “quiz” to make a rough calculation of your personal ecological footprint based on your own lifestyle. It will calculate how many earths it would take to support 7 billion people all trying to live like you do. After you take the quiz “for real”, you can play around with your inputs to see how it affects your results. Answer the following questions in discussion board.
1) What aspects of your lifestyle were taken into consideration?
2) How precise was your data input, given the options? How might that impact your results?
3) What was the biggest surprise about your ecological footprint?
4) Run the quiz two more times after you do it “for real” the first time. The second time, try to pretend that you’re perfect (if you can figure out what “perfect” is in this model). Did you get it down to one or less Earth? For the the third time, make a few adjustments to your original answers that seem “doable.” How did this change your results?
Up to 10 points for your original post. You receive 1.25 points each for replies to other students (maximum of 2.5 points for replies). Maximum score = 12.5 points
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https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2020/
Explore this site for trends in population growth within countries and across the world.
Generate some Population Pyramid Graphs for at least four countries– at least two representing highly industrialized countries and at least two representing developing or deprived countries. Develop pyramids for three years: 1995, 2020, and 2045.
Pick two of your countries, including at least one industrialized and one developing or deprived country. Answer the following questions for BOTH of the countries you picked.
1) How is the population distributed among the different 5-year age classes? As time passes, how is the survival rate of different demographic groups contributing to the general increase or decrease in population size?
2) Keeping track of the years, are any external forces (wars, famine, migrations, improvements in education, etc.) evident in the expansion or contraction of that country’s population? Google information about those countries from the years represented in your demographic animation.
3) What will be the social and economic impacts of older demographic groups expanding?
On the Discussion Board Thread for this topic, use the information you collected from the above questions to write a brief summary of your two countries describing their growth trends and speculating on the forces that contribute to that past, present and future trend. 10 points for answering the above, and 2.5 points for one response to another student’s post.
