FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review Diffusion – 2 types - relocation and expansion (3 subgroups) Population patterns – MDC and LDC trends, why? East-West Divide vs. new North-South Divide MDC vs. LDC – industrial patterns Outsoucing/offshoring Thomas Malthus, Ester Boserup and von Thunen (connections) Von Thunen vs. ...Read More

FRQ Possibilities Themes to Review

World population from 1800 to 2100, based on UN 2004 projections (red, orange, green) and US Census Bureau historical estimates (black).

Overpopulation: The idea that as the amount of people progress, the number of supplies could possibly decrease over an amount of time. Thomas Malthus (1766)-(1834) -Argued that the world's population increase was outrunning the development of food supplies. The Malthus Theory on Overpopulation -According ...Read More

Thomas Malthus & Overpopulation 2

Thomas Malthus is the English political economist who was one of the first to argue that the increase in the world' population was surpassing the development of food production (overpopulation). Overpopulation is when the number of people exceeds the environment's ...Read More

Malthus & Overpopulation 7

Instructions: Over the next 2 days you will conduct research to not only familiarize yourself with the concept of population, but to identify and document your 6 best sources (3 for each side) through an annotated bibliography. By the end of ...Read More

Wednesday Computer Lab Activity