1.What is a Minimal Viable Population?

1.What is a Minimal Viable Population? Why are Zoos
and Animal Conservationists concerned with this for tigers or snow leopards?
Name four other species and their population problems/solutions. Cite your
references.

2.
Evaluate the human population growth rates for FOUR different COUNTIES in YOUR
STATE. Evaluate the population trends in each county (not country). Why are
they different or the same? Expound on your reasons. List your sources.

3.
Rotary International is an organization that has many goals, one of which
was/is to eliminate polio from the world’s human population. Give a brief
history of this mission (one paragraph) and then give YOUR prediction about the
world’s population’s growth if another condition/disease (you choose it) is
eliminated from the human population worldwide. Include a population curve for
the population WITH the condition and then a simultaneous curve on the same
graph of the population WITHOUT the condition after 100 years. (Color code your
two population curves.) Cut/paste the graph into the msword document for this week’s
iLab. Include the sources of the original population density’s data.