Geography - Population growth and density

Question 1

how many people live in the world today

Answer 1

nearly 8 billion

Question 2

approximately how many people lived in the world in the late 1960’s

Answer 2

around 3 billion

Question 3

approximately how many people die and are born each day

Answer 3

• around 135 million births

- around 55 million deaths

Question 4

almost half the population today is under what age?

Answer 4

25

Question 5

approximately how many people don’t have enough food and safe drinking - water

Answer 5

around 1 billion

Question 6

what is the effect of global warming on our population?

Answer 6

it is disrupting ecosystems and threatening billions to have to dislocate

Question 7

what is happening to energy sources

Answer 7

they are becoming scarcer and harder to find and extract

Question 8

what does population distribution show

Answer 8

how people are spread out across the globe

Question 9

what does “sparsely populated” mean

Answer 9

few people live there

Question 10

what does “densely populated” mean

Answer 10

many people live there

Question 11

why are some areas sparsely populated?

Answer 11

because of natural disasters, other PUSH FACTORS