1. Do you know the current world population? What units did you use in this estimate? What site did you use to locate this information?

2. What is the increase in the world population over the last 10 years? What site did you use to locate this information?

3. Look at the table below. Compare the population growth in the last ten years to the growth between 1950 -1960. How did you compare the growth over different periods of time?

4. Do you think it would be useful to be able to predict future population? Why?

5. Identify factors that influence population growth?

6. Identify possible consequences of population growth.