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Unicef: Country Statistics
This site provides data on life expectancy, total fertility rates, crude birth rate and death rates of all countries. There are also links to related information.
Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor: Population Decline in Sight
This Christian Science Monitor article notes the projections of a UN Conference of March 2001, predicting that fertility rates worldwide are decreasing, and population decline is in sight.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Demographic Trends, Fertility, & Migration
This resource consists of graphs and articles that review general demographic changes and related national policies on migration. The goal is to provide information about general population trends, while encouraging a critical...
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California State University: Biology Labs Online: Demography Lab
A comprehensive set of virtual experiment assignments where students explore four factors that affect the population demographics of seven countries, including population size and structure, mortality, and birth rate. Includes background...
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Catholic Culture: News: Mexico Population Becoming Elderly
A news article explaining how Mexico's population is expected to increase among elders and decrease in relation to children because fertility rates have decreased over the past 25 years.
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Gapminder World: 200 Years That Changed the World
This interactive allows you to view graphs of a variety of things by selecting and comparing bubbles; drag the time slider, zoom in and out and turn trails on/off.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Trends Quiz
In this interactive quiz from NOVA, take the Environmental Challenge and test your knowledge of human impact on the world's natural resources and climate.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Duckweed Bioassay
This lab was designed with the intent to mimic the effect fertilizers can have on plants in a lake or pond ecosystem. Students determine the effect different fertilizer concentrations have on the growth rate of duckweed plants, as...
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Unversidad Politecnica De Valencia: Un Viaje Virtual
This WWW Server is running in Valencia, ensconced in fertile terrain on the shores of the Mediterranean close to the mouth of the Turia river. Valencia and its environs constitute a first rate tourist centre in both infrastructure and...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Mossi
The Mossi are the most prominent ethnic group in the modern nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). They are also well known in the anthropological literature as a society with an especially high rate of labor migration to...