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Today in class we watched a video on population and GDP statistics called Hans Rosling 200 years in 4 minutes. Hans teaches people about global health. In 1810 the life expectancy was below 40 years old. Of course there are people that will live past 40 and live less than 40 years of age but it's just an average. Hans was also very optimistic about developing countries. He thinks eventually, the developing countries such as nigeria, Afghanistan, Ghana and Ghana will have booming economies like The United States and China soon.

Today in class we went over the population pyramids again. We watched the TED-ED video as a class instead of independent like we did yesterday. I learned more things about population pyramids. One thing I learned was that males are always on the left of the graph no matter what. They probably do that to keep everything uniform and consistent. I also learned that women always have more people on their side because it is a proven fact that women live longer than men. Many things can affect the shape of the population pyramid. One thing is war. When many people die in a war (mostly men), the women have a much higher population for that age group. Another thing that can affect the shape of the population pyramid is if there is a baby boom for a specific number of years. If there is, the bulge of people will keep moving up until they eventually die out. Lastly population pyramids do a great job of predicting the future and remembering statistics from the past.

Today in class we learned about population pyramids. Population pyramids are a visual image of what percent of the population of a specific country is male or female is a specific age margin. Population statistics are very important thing to know. The data is divided my female on one side and male on the other. Vertically, is the age margins, which divides into every 5 years. Outside the vertical year division is 3 other divisions which is based on what years you can give birth. The first division is pre reproduction which is 0-14. The second division is reproductive which is 15-40 ish. The third is post reproductive which is 45 and up.                                                                                                                         

Today we took the test on what we have been learning for the past few weeks. I feel confident in this test. I studied for awhile last night and i think it paid off. This test was a lot easier that I thought it would be. I knew the answers to all of the questions. If I do good on this test it might bring my grade up to an A. The hardest part of the test was probably thinking of push and pull factors but I think I did pretty good on that part. The easiest part of the test was probably the part where you filled in the blanks with the proper terms. For the bonus question I know for a fact that I got the one right about keeping the population the same. For the other one about the worlds Net Migration rate, I guessed and i'm pretty sure I got that one wrong. In conclusion, I think I did good on this test.

Today we reviewed over the powerpoint of what we have been learning about this unit. This unit was one of the most interesting ones this year. It's actually beneficial information that we can use. For the test tomorrow I actually feel very confident. I hope I do good on it because I will be studying for awhile tonight. You told us the test won't be very hard and I really hope it's not. The challenge for me will probably be remembering the push and pull factors and how to get the crude rates for birth and immigration. I hope I do decent on this test.               

Today we checked over our answers from the previous blog. For the blog we got 21 questions to do in the world factbook and they were pretty easy to find. I got most of them right and some I couldn't end up finding. I really like the world factbook because you can find anything you need in it. You can find things from population to how many hospital beds are in a country per 1000 people. Also the world factbook website is really easy to use. Today we just checked answers so there wasn't much to blog about.

1.  The population of China is 1,384,688,986, the population of India is  1,296,834,042. 2.  The fertility rate in Japan is  1.42 children born/woman. 3.  The death rate in El Salvador is  5.8 deaths/1,000 population. 4. France does not check the religion of their people but 23%-25% of people do not have one. 5.  82.7% identify themselves as roman catholics in Mexico. 6. The GDP in The United States is  $59,800. 7. The GDP in Nigeria is $5,900. 8. The GDP in Luxembourg  $105,100. 9.  76.2% of people in the United States use the internet. 10. There are  1,218  airports in Russia and  13,513  the United States. 11.  1.201 billion people in the world don't have electricity. 12. The infant mortality rate in Canada is  4.5 deaths/1,000 live births. In Cuba it is  4.4 deaths/1,000 live births. In the United States its  5.7 deaths/1,000 live births. 13. The literacy rate in Afghanistan is  38.2%.   PRINT 14. Monaco has the highest life expectancy 15. Lesotho, Zambia and Afgh

Today we learned about birth and death rates. Crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 people. The crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1000 people. These rates are yearly. They do every 1000 because its like if every country had 1000 people so its easier. The rate of natural increase (RNI) is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. Net migration rate is difference between people entering and leaving a country. Immigration is always a positive number and emigration is always negative. The number of Mexican immigrants has gotten much smaller every year for the past 3 years.

Today we got our test back and I got the class average, 75%. I am not the most proud of my grade considering I studied and worked hard and diligently on the test. In my opinion the questions about relative and absolute were a bit unfair because we didn't spend that much time on it and the questions were very hard and nobody did good at all. After you explained it more thoroughly I understand it a lot better and I wish I would have gotten the questions right. Overall this was a very challenging unit and this stuff about geography is very hard. You also mentioned that the class average is an 81. Considering we have taken two tests already that is a good class average.                               

The world has many people living in it. There is currently 7.6 billion people. That is 2.5 per second, 8377 per hour, 200,000 per day and 73 million per year. 90% of the population growth in the world is from developing countries such as Africa, and mid eastern countries. In the U.S.A. the average lifespan for a man is 77 years compared to a female which is 81. Some people migrate to the U.S.A. for many reasons. Some push factors are civil war and lack of jobs. Some pull factors are jobs, food, opportunity and most of all, freedom. The average amount of children to women is 2.1. This makes sense because both children replace the mom and dad when they die and the cycle continues. In China, population used to be a problem so if you had more than one child you had to pay for it.

I was out of class due to a game.

Today in class we did a pop quiz about what we have been learning about for the past few weeks. I was not prepared at all for the pop quiz and it was very hard. Im pretty sure I got a 5/10 or something close to that. I was not expecting the pop quiz at all and I was kind of mad that Mr. Schick didn't tell us about this in advance. My grade is in between an A and a B and this will bring it down. I hope I have other opportunities to bring it up. After the pop quiz we got to work on this blog and study after. This was a good time to ask any questions regaurding the test and clear anything up. I hope I do well on the test on monday.

1. Whats the definition of Geography? The study of where things are found on earths surface. 2. Who made the first world map? A. Socrates B. Eratosthenes C. Christopher Columbus D. Garcia 3. What is absolute location expressed in? A.  degrees, minutes, or seconds B. regional position 4. What is relative location expressed in? A.  regional position B. degrees, minutes or seconds 5. What is the equators degree? The equators degree is 0. 6. Latitude lines get _______ towards the poles. A. shorter B. longer C. wider D. more narrow 7. What place does the prime meridian pass through.? The prime meridian passes through Greenwich, England. 8. Why isn't Coordinated Universal Time's abbreviation (CUT)? Because in most other languages the adjective goes after the verb not before. 9. Which direction do meridians run? Meridians run north to south on the globe. 10. Can sites be changed by humans? Yes, sites can be changed by humans. For example, Manhattan

Today in class we took our test on the countries of North America and South America. I felt very good about this test. North America was much easier for me and I felt I got 100% on that side of the test. On the side with South America I think I did very good but maybe I got 2 mixed up. When I studied I had a hard time differing Columbia and Venezuela. Other than that mix up I think I did good. After the test we learned about time zones which is very confusing. Time zone lines are basically the meridians but very crooked so they don't run through the middle of Important places. The definition of a time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. There are 24 time zones, 1 for each hour and each one is 15 degrees wide. We also learned about UTC, the coordinated universal time, also known as the standard of time. Why not CUT? Its not CUT because the majority of world languages write the adjective than the verb.