What are the main sources of food for the hunter-gatherers?
Who is responsible for each type of food? Do you think that it is a good diet?
What factors result in a larger population once people settle and farm?
Why does the change in the character of the plaster floors of the settlers indicate that the habitat has been degraded?
What other evidence is there for habitat degradation?
What is the relative impact of hunter-gatherers v.s. farmers on habitat degradation?
In early farming what replaces hunting? Gathering?
What is the advantage of farming over hunting and gathering for settled people?
What were the new developments in agriculture in 18th century England?
selective breeding, enclosure, mechanization, crop rotation and fertilizing using manure
What factor most controlled the rate of population growth (ratio of births to deaths) in England?
not the length of life, but the age of marriage, i.e. ability to afford a home
What was the result of the new agricultural developments on population?
How did the changes in population lead to industrialization in England?
What were the three most important resources supporting the English Industrial Revolution? Describe the interrelationship of these resources.
Men, women and children worked in the coal mines? What did each do?
When and for what purpose was first steam engine used?
What were some of the results of the Industrial Revolution?
What were living conditions like in an early industrial city?
How were these conditions remedied?
What factors led to the environmental revolution?
At the first World Environmental Conference Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, was not willing to take on the responsibility for overpopulation and its effect on the environment. Why?
Explain the concept of spaceship Earth.