Student worksheet for exploring population dynamics using mathematical models.

- I would be curious about the growth and sustainability of the human population in the long term.
- We could likely use the demographic transition model as it measures birth and death rates along with carrying capacity.
- Other bacteria, populations in recovery from a disaster, or populations in ideal conditions for reproduction.
- N: The number in the population; how many bacteria are in the population
- t: Time we are using as a measure; 1 day
- dN/dt: The change in population size over the change in reproduction time; In one day, there was an increase from x bacteria to y bacteria
- r: Rate of reproduction; 1.1 bacteria per minute.
- N₀: Initial population; There were initially z bacteria
- While the first represents population growth rates as a whole, r is based more in birth/death rates per