Review questions:  Group Discussions in Class

 

GROUP 1

1.List the reasons why you think the World’s death rate has declined over the past 100 years?

2.What factors account for the rapid population growth experienced globally during the 19th, 20th and the 21st Centuries?

 

GROUP 2

3.What economic rewards and penalties can a country adopt to reduce birth rates?

4.What conditions lead women to have fewer children?

5.What are some of the effects of a population decline on a country?

 

GROUP 3

6.What are the effects of a rapid population growth on the people of a country?

7.  United States should reduce its current level of legal immigration and tighten up on illegal immigration. Critically examine this statement and explain the benefits and harmful effects of immigration on the United States of America.  (Read Case Study Inset at page 250 of textbook for some help).