Benchmark 7C
Human Society: Social Change
Grades 9-12, page 163

The size and rate of growth of the human population in any location is affected by economic, political, religious, technological, and environmental factors. Some of these factors, in turn, are influenced by the size and rate of growth of the population.
 

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Characteristics and changes in populations
Grades K-4, page 140
The size of a human population can increase or decrease. Populations will increase unless other factors such as disease or famine decrease the population.

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Populations, resources, and environments
Grades 5-8, page 168
When an area becomes overpopulated, the environment will become degraded due to the increased use of resources.

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Population growth
Grades 9-12, page 198
Populations grow or decline through the combined effects of births and deaths, and through emigration and immigration. Populations can increase through linear or exponential growth, with effects on resource use and environmental pollution.

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Population growth
Grades 9-12, page 198
Various factors influence birth rates and fertility rates, such as average levels of affluence and education, importance of children in the labor force, education and employment of women, infant mortality rates, costs of raising children, availability and reliability of birth control methods, and religious beliefs and cultural norms that influence personal decisions about family size.

NSES Content Standard F 
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Environmental quality
Grades 9-12, page 198
Many factors influence environmental quality. Factors that students might investigate include population growth, resource use, population distribution, overconsumption, the capacity of technology to solve problems, poverty, the role of economic, political, and religious views, and different ways humans view the earth.