Hans Rosling Video

We watched a video called Hans Rosling 200 years in four minutes. He had a chart with years on the y axis, from 25 up to 75 years. The x axis is money up to $40,000 GDP per capita. In the left bottom corner was poor and sick. The right top corner is healthy and rich. 200 years ago life expectancy was 40. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands were the best off living wise until a little past 40 years. Asia and Africa didn't participate in industrial evolution. In 1948 countries were spread all across the graph. In 1948 Africa was still at the bottom. Provinces in China like Shanghai is doing as good as Italy even though China was much farther down. Age, trade, green technology, and peace will help all countries reach healthy rich corner, this is what Hans Rosling thinks. Unfortunately this has not happened.

More notes on the Population Pyramid

We watched the video again that I watched yesterday. This time we stopped more and explained in more detail what the video what saying. In my last blog I said that each row was four years but it is actually five. On the Population Pyramid men are always on the left and women are always on the right. I will now describe the Demographic Transition. If a one of the graphs is a triangle then the population will grow quickly. It is considered pre- industrialized. If it looks like a diamond but the point on the sides are near the bottom then the population will grow slowly. It is considered industrialized. If it looks like a diamond but the side points are at the top then the population will decline. It is then considered post industrialized. The triangle means is will grow faster because if they are pre- industrialized then they don't have birth control so they have more kids. The industrialized grows slowly because parents only have about two children which is just enough to replace the parents. The post industrialized has more older people than younger so they aren't replacing the people that are dying with babies. That is how they will decrease in population.

Notes on Population Pyramid

We watched two videos on pyramid population. I will describe how a population pyramid works. It is split into two sides, one female and one male. Each row is years of age. Row one is years zero through four. Row two is five through nine. Row three is ten through fourteen and so on. It goes up to 100 plus years. Years zero through fourteen is pre productive and that is three rows. Years 15-44 is reproductive and is 6 rows. Years 45-100 plus is post reproductive and that has twelve rows. The pyramid is a powerful predictor of future population trends. In Japan their population will keep decreasing because more people are in their post reproductive age. Their are less in the reproductive age and many people are only having one child. Rwanda will be a fast growing country, their are a lot of people in the pre reproductive age so their are going to be many babies born soon. Canada's population will increase but slowly because most people are in the reproductive age. Once they are gone there won't be as many people going from pre reproductive to reproductive. The population will grow but slowly.

Test Day

In class today we took a test on population and settlement. I think I did okay. I think I got a few wrong but not that many. There were a few questions with like exact numbers of a population or something and I had no idea what they were. The front page wasn't to hard except I didn't get to one question because I ran out of time. It was how many barrels of oil does the United States make or something like that and I didn't find it on time. The vocab page wasn't to hard either but some of the words at the top I didn't know what they meant. But there was only one question I really wasn't sure about. I made a quizlet with the vocab words to help me study so I think I knew most of them. The next page I may have gotten one or two wrong. I feel more confident on that page then I did earlier. On the last page I used different countries and gave two examples, which I'm not sure was enough or not. The bonus questions I had no idea what it was even asking or talking about so one of them I gave a random number and the other I was so clueless I didn't know whether to out a number, word or country. I hope I did good on the test because I have a 90% on this class and I don't want it to go a B.

Test Tomorrow on World Population

Today we went over test material for tomorrow. We reviewed slides and guessed what would be on the test. We were told the format which includes going on the CIA World Factbook Cite, answering 15 questions, multiple choice, and answering vocab. We need to bring a fully charged laptop for the questions and we get 20 minutes to answer all of them. Then we do the rest of the test. I underlined in my notes what might be important for the test, and things I should memorize. Some terms I need to know are: life expectancy, Net Migration Rate (TFR), push forces, pull forces, crude birth rate, crude death rate, Rate of Natural Increase (RNI), net immigration, net emigration, death rate, and infant mortality rate. I will study everything and hopefully do well on the test. I want to do well since it is the last test of the quarter.

CIA World Factbook

Today in class we reviewed and discussed all the questions we answered yesterday. I learned a lot of things I didn't know or even think of with this site. For example technology, I figured most people in the world used technology because of how advanced its gotten. It is also very easy for us to immediately get access to the internet and things like that so I assumed most other people did too. Only 76.2% of people use internet. I thought it would be high 80% or low 90% even. I knew not everyone because there are lots of people in Africa and India who don't even have electricity. These days technology seems to be growing fast so I thought far more people would have it. I also didn't realize how much more our GDP is compared to a country like Nigeria is We have a little over 50,000 more than them which is crazy. Our GDP doesn't seem very high compared to Luxembourg which is 105,000. They are a smaller country with less people so that is probably why there's is so much higher. It is still crazy how different each is just because of your surrounds when you could all be working just as hard.

World Factbook Questions

1. The population of China is 1,384,688,986 and India is 1,296,834,042.
2. The birth rate in Japan is 7.5 births/1,000 population.
3. The death rate in El Salvador is 5.8 deaths/1,000 population.
4. No it is not verifiable because people have different opinions on what is considered a religion.
5. The percentage of Mexicans who are Roman Catholic are  82.7%
6. The GDP per capita in the U.S. is $59,800.
7. The GDP per capita in Nigeria is$5,900.
8. The GDP per capita in Luxembourg is $105,100.
9. The percentage in the U.S. of people who use the internet are 76.2% 
10. The number of airports in Russia is 1,218 and U.S. is 13,513.
11. 1.201 billion people do not have electricity.
12. The infant mortality rate in Cuba is 4.4 deaths per 1000. Canda 4.5 per 1000. U.S. is 5.7 per 1000.

13. The literacy rate in Afghanistan for men is 52%, for women 24.2%, total 38.2%.

14. These three countries have the highest life expectancy: Monaco, Japan, Singapore.
15. Aghanistan, Zambia, Lesotho have the lowest life expectancy.
16.The nation that has the sixteenth highest Net Migration Rate is Monaco.
17. The unemployment rate in Vietnam is : 7.3%, South Korea 10.4%, the United States 8.6% , India 10.1%, and Kenya 7.4%.
18.
The percentage that is spent by Germany 1.24% , China 1.87% , and the United States 3.16%. 19.The three countries that produce the most crude oil, and how much do they produce:

The United States produces the most crude oil, producing 10,962,00 BBL per day, Russia produces the second most, producing 10,759,000 BBL per day, and Saudi Arabia is third, producing 10,425,000 BBL per day.

20.  These three countries import the most oil: China imports 6,710,000 BBL per day, India imports 4,057,000 BBL per day, United States imports 7,969,000 BBL per day. 21. The percentage of the world’s people speak Spanish is 6%, Chinese12.3%, English5.1%.

More Population facts

Today we learned more about the population of the world and the United States. We learned how some countries have higher death rates than birth rates, why women live longer than men, why people immigrate, and more. The crude birth rate is the number of deaths per 1000 of the population. The crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1000 of the population. The Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) is produced by subtracting the death rate from birth rate. This gives us the annul natural growth rate- in percentage form- for a country or region. The Net Migration Rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year. There are two reasons why someone would leave, push forces and pull forces. A push force would be a civil war, environmental degradation, unemployment or underemployment, or religious or ethnic persecution. A pull force would be a better economic opportunity, better health services, religious freedom, or political freedom.

Notes Population and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. So the life expectancy of my year 2004 is different than 2005 life expectancy. Drugs have change the life expectancy rate. At first people didn't know the health risk of drugs so they did it and the rate may have gone down. Then they started learning how bad it really is and what it can do to you. The rates went up because people stopped doing it. After that Juul came out and lots of people do it because it doesn't seem as bad as cigarettes and they see it as a good alternative. Some people don't know that its bad so people keep doing it and the life expectancy rate went down. Now teens are doing it because it looks cool and has candy flavors. So now the life expectancy rate has decreased even farther because some still smoke, adults Juul, and now teens are doing it.

Population and Settlement

We started taking notes this class on population and settlement. Some notes are:
over 7.6 billion people on the planet right now. And 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing
countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. It is increasing by over 73 million per year and by approx. 200,000 per day, 8377 per hour, 149 per minute, and 2.5 per second. We talked about how poor countries have more children because they don't have the things we have. They also don't have access to stores, pharmacays, doctors offices, or sometimes hospital. They don't get the same education we do, so they don't know that they shouldn't have as many children. There is a website that shows that people die every eleven seconds and babies being born every eight. It shows our Unites States population and world population. Tomorrow we will learn more about this.

Test Return

We got our test back today and I didn't do well just like I thought. I got a 70% and got eight wrong out if twenty-seven. The average was 75 in our Honors Human Geo Class. I was confused on the relative location, absolute location, and neither section. I thought that a place could not be relative or absolute, so I put that as an answer a few times since I thought it was a real choice. I also got the question wrong where is had 93 degrees North when there is no such thing as 93 degrees North. It stops at 90. I'm happy that Mr. Schick is curving the grades up by two points for those questions. Even though its only two points its better than nothing. Hopefully it will make my grade into a C.

Test Today

In class today we had a test. I don't think I did very good. The test wasn't that easy. The first test was easy but I also got more time to study so that could be why. There were a lot of questions I wasn't sure about. It was on latitude and longitude, maps, time zones, and site and situation. I think I may have gotten a few of the time zone questions right but not all.  I only found out about the test yesterday so I didn't have much time to study. I knew where the Equator was, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, and the Antarctic Circle. The Equator is zero degrees North/South. The Tropic of Cancer is 23 degrees 26' North. The Arctic Circle is 66 degrees 34' North. The Tropic of Capricorn is 23 degree 26' South. The Antarctic Circle 66 degrees 34' South. I was sure about any of the relative location, absolute location, or neither section. Then I wrote a blog about what I did in class.

Test Tomorrow and End of Debate

Today we finished our debate with two more people presenting their points. Everyone did a great job. Unfortunately the people that were in the middle or couldn't decide went with maintain time zones. I think we had some great points but we probably lost. I don't think that they will get rid of time zones anytime soon and change it to a 24 hour clock. We had a pop quiz today and I got a 70%. I got seven questions out of ten right. I will definitely study a lot. Our test is latitude and longitude, maps, time zones, and site and situation. I will look at my notes, blogs, vocab words, and slide shows to prepare. I want to do as well on this test as I did on the last. Good luck to everyone on the test tomorrow, hopefully we all study and do well.

Class Debate on Time Zones

We had a class debate on whether we should keep Time Zones or not. We had to persuade the people who couldn't decide if we should have it or not and persuade them into thinking like our side. Everyone stated their ideas and we had some people object and then they stated what they thought. I think everyone else did a great job and had good ideas that I would have never thought of. The people who wanted to keep the Times Zones were saying how people wouldn't want to change the time and it was a lot of work. As it is now it is a lot of work just to figure out the time that it is where you are going. If we change it now and once everyone gets used to it, it will be much easier to know what time it is where you are going because it would be the same time as yours. I didn't have a good topic because I just had no ideas on how to argue my topic or explain it well. I might have done better if I could just have explained in general why we shouldn't have them. I just think we should get rid of them because it would be less math if you travel and I just find it way to complicated. I want to travel the world and having Time Zones makes jet lag worse so if we didn't have them you would have less jet lag. Business people would be much healthier because of less jet lag. You can have heart attacks, weight gain and other health issues because of it. This is why we should just get rid of Time Zone.

Research on time zones

In class we got in groups for people who are agree with the abolishment of time zones, keeping time zones, and people who weren't sure of there side yet. I was in the group of getting rid of time zones. I think it is just more work, and to many rules to keep time zones. We should keep it simple and have the world on the same time except it would be like one here in the afternoon and one at night somewhere else. Here are some other reasons why we should get rid of it. They don't even follow the rules. In Australia there time zones were only 30 minutes apart instead of an hour. Some places are also 45 minutes apart too. In North Korea they changed there time half an hour back just so they were different. It was much more confusing then because it was just a half hour difference. This is why we should just have one time around the world and then no one can make there own rules or change their time just to be different. Everyone can be the same and it would be simple.

Time Zones

Time zones is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. They tend to follow the boundaries of countries because it is convenient for areas in close commercial communication to keep the same time. Earth is a sphere that is divided into 360 degrees of longitude. Divide 360 by 24 time zones (one for each hour of the day). This equals 15 degrees. Each 15 degree band of longitude is assigned to a standard time zone. We also had a big discussion on whether we should have the whole world on the same time or keep time zones. It would be less complicated if we didn't have so many time zones. The time zones also aren't in a straight line because they don't want one city to have to times. Train, bus, and other things would be so confusing because you would know what time it was on. You could be an hour late or early because of the time difference. I had a quiz today on South American and North American countries. I used an online quiz and I did it many times to study. I think I got all the questions right on the quiz. It was also nice to have a word bank.