8 - Carrying Capacity

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Population, Culture & Migration

Geography

Bilingual Education year 1

Mister De Graaf

Boss of Geography

This lesson

Topic: Population

• Reflection on population diagrams.
• Carrying capacity
• Copying notes
• Making a summary
• Playing a quizzygame

This lesson

Topic: Population

• Reflection on population diagrams.
• Carrying capacity
• Finishing up: cultural portraits!

ATTENTION

When you see this icon               on one of the slides, you should take a screenshot. These are important notes to copy later on in your notebook. 

Country development and birth rate

Rule: the more developed a country is, the lower the birth rate
Or: the less developed a country is, the higher the birth rate

Explain the statement above. Raise hands

Reflection

High birth rates in poor countries 

1. People think of children as a form of security (income)
   
2. No anticonception (access, knowledge, permittance)
   

Reflection

Low birth rates in rich countries

1. Knowledge on and access to anticonception
   
2. Children are expensive (yes you are)
3. Elderly people don’t rely solely on their children for income and support
   

Reflection

Reflection

Angola or Belgium?

If the entire world lived like the average Dutchman, Earth Overshoot Day would be in...

1. February
2. August
3. May
4. November

Natural resources = products that people can use from nature 

When will the natural resources run out?

No unlimited supply of resources

• Some are renewable: food and wood
  
• Some are non-renewable: gold and petroleum (aardolie)
  

Renewable natural resources

Non-renewable natural resources

Wood

Petroleum

Coal 

Food

Gold

Carrying capacity = the Earth's ability to support all people's lives

Help!

With all the world's citizens together, we are using so many natural resources that we are exceeding the carrying capacity of the Earth

Ecological footprint

• The amount of land a person needs to live their live 
  
• In The Netherlands we use 6(!) hectares per person

Your turn!

Click here to calculate your Ecological Footprint

World population

Population projection: by the year 2100 there will be 11 billion of us on the planet

Not only population growth, but also...

Growing prosperity and  changing lifestyle lead to a larger ecological footprint 

We need to be sustainable with what we have!

Dan kunnen onze toekomstige generaties ook gebruik van maken!

'Sustainable': what do you think about?

Sustainable: 

We do not use the natural resources on Earth faster than that they are replaced

Sustainable

Sustainable

Not sustainable

Not sustainable

How big is your ecological footprint?

Name at least three things that you can do to live a more sustainable life

Your turn!

Copy the screenshots you took into your notebook

Make a summary of the subject Population, Culture & Migration

Go to studiewijzer for all the studymaterial you need.

Don't forget your notes

Your turn!

Copy the screenshots you took into your notebook

Make a summary of the subject Population, Culture & Migration

Go to studiewijzer for all the studymaterial you need.

Don't forget your notes

Vocabulary 

Natural resources	Natuurlijke hulpbronnen
Ecological footprint	Ecologische voetafdruk
Carrying capacity	Draagkracht
Population projections	Bevolkingsprognose
Sustainable	Duurzaam
Prosperity	Welvaart