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Prepare a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with 350- to 700- word Speaker notes examining how population trends lead to urbanization and animal decline.
- Refer to Table 1.3 in Ch. 1 of The Human Impact on the Natural Environment, which lists the five stages of global economic development.
- Examine the population trends in the two most recent stages of economic development:
- The Atlantic industrial era
- The Pacific global era
- Compare the environmental conditions between these two eras and with what occurred in the first three stages of global economic development.
- Explain how the population trends in these eras led to urbanization.
- Choose one of the world’s urban agglomerations listed in Table 1.7.
- Identify three environmental effects cause by urbanization in this area.
- Identify a specific animal population decline that resulted from urbanization in this area.
Cite at least three references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. NO PLAGIARISM!
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➢ Overtime, we have experienced an increase in the
numbers of populations occupying different parts of the
world
➢ Urbanization, in effect, has resulted in the great decline
of different species of animals leading to an unbalanced
ecosystem
➢ This has led to major concerns of what our world is
coming to if some of its inhabitants are going into
extinction
➢ There are five stages of economic development that have
taken place over the years
➢ These stages are;
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hunting-gathering and early agriculture
Riverine civilizations
agricultural empires
the Atlantic-industrial era
the Pacific-global era
➢ The last two are the most recent stages of economic
development
➢ All these stages help us understand the extent of economic
development and urbanization that has been experienced
➢ During the Atlantic-industrial era, the impact on the
environment started increasing through the use of fossil
fuels and industrial development which created...