1.What is a Minimal Viable Population? Why are Zoos and Animal Conservationists concerned with this for tigers or snow leopards? Name four other species and their population problems/solutions. Cite your references.
2. Evaluate the human population growth rates for FOUR different COUNTIES in YOUR STATE. Evaluate the population trends in each county (not country). Why are they different or the same? Expound on your reasons. List your sources.
County
Previous Year Population (2000)
Current Year Population (2010)
Population % change
Clayton
236,517
259,424
9.7%
Cobb
607,751
688,078
13.2%
Fayette
91,263
106,567
16.8%
Fulton
816,006
920,581
12.8%
3. Rotary International is an organization that has many goals, one of which was/is to eliminate polio from the world’s human population. Give a brief history of this mission (one paragraph) and then give YOUR prediction about the world’s population’s growth if another condition/disease (you choose it) is eliminated from the human population worldwide. Include a population curve for the population WITH the condition and then a simultaneous curve on the same graph of the population WITHOUT the condition after 100 years. (Color code your two population curves.) Cut/paste the graph into the msword document for this week’s iLab. Include the sources of the original population density’s data.