Western Civilization Blog

Hands Rosling: 200 years in 4 minutes: - Teaches global health theres a chart i cant put on here - Life expectancy in 1810 for almost every country lower than 40 World War 1: millions die Spanish flu epidemic: 675,000 died in America - 1948 pretty good year ww2 over and the guy was born.

Population pyramid notes - Men on the Left women on the right - 5 year intervals - Youngest to oldest (bottom to top) - Grouped into pre-reproductive (0-14) to reproductive (15-44) to post-reproductive (45+) - Industrialized - Developing countries - Demographic Transition: Age group being targeted Today we watched a video on the population pyramid and there are some pictures in my notebook but I can't draw on here.

I got a 93 on the test. I am pretty happy with this score, the mistakes I made were stupid ones I should've payed closer attention to, but it's okay.  Human Geo is probably one of my favorite classes because it's never boring. Schick is entertaining and knows a lot about Human Geo.

Test day. I know for sure I got at least one of the answers wrong but I may have gotten an extra credit. The test was relatively easy, I think it was a pretty fair test. I knew all of the material going into it so I felt confident, and I'm still confident in my answers minus that one.

Rest of the notes from the Power Point: Total Fertility Rate (TFR): average children born per woman. - for a population to remain the same, the TFR must average 2.1. - higher than 2.1: rises - lower than 2.1: decreases - Gross Domestic Product (GDP): All of the countries money from manufacturing things divided by the number of people in the country = the average amount of money each person makes. Push and pull forces - Political instability - Afghanistan - drug production - Mexico - economic opportunities - United States - rich people commit tax fraud - Luxembourg

Today all we did was go over and discuss the why Mr. Schick decided to make us answer that particular question. We also went over what the numbers really meant, and why they were at that number. Also the infant mortality rate is how many kids under the age of one die. That is apparently on the test.

What is the population of China, and of India?  China - 1,384,688,986 as of July 2018, India - 1,296,834,042 as of July 2018. What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan? 1.42 children born/woman. What is the death rate in El Salvador? 5.8 deaths/ 1,000 population. What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why? 23-28%. No, they don't fund churches or anything so it just doesn't matter to them. What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic? 82.7% What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in the United States? $59,800. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Nigeria? $5,900 What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Luxembourg? $105,100 What percentage of the United States’ population are Internet users? 76.2% What is the number of airports in Russia, and in the United States? 1,218 in Russia. 13,513 in the United States. How many people in the world do not have electricity?...

Entire section notes - More people than ever!  ◦ Over 7.6 billion people on the planet right now. ◦  90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and Easy Asia, and Latin America.  - Life expectancy: the avg. # of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.  ◦ Higher Monaco (86.53 Men, 93.58 Women) ◦ #43 U.S.: (77.32 Men, 81.97 Women) ◦ Low (?): 48.64 Men, 51.03 Women - Crude birth rate: number of births per 1000 of the population. - Crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 of the population. - Rate of natural increase (RNI): ◦ Produced by subtracting death rate from birth rate ◦ This gives us the annual natural growth rate in percentage form - for a country or region - Net migration rate: the difference between the number of people entering & leaving per year. ◦ An excess of persons entering the country is net immigration (written as pos.) ◦ Net emigration: excess of persons leaving ...

Today we discussed why women have a higher life expectancy than men in almost every country. Some of the examples: men are often the ones going to wars, men work more dangerous and risky jobs, and men are more likely to put off going to see someone about a problem they have. We took notes but I do not currently have my composition book therefore I can't write them. I will write them on the next blog.

Today we got our tests back. Mine wasn't too bad in the first place, I don't think I did necessarily bad, but also not as well as I wanted. As we went through the test, Mr. Schick told us when the whole 2 classes got a question either all right or all wrong. One of the questions we all got wrong, so Mr. Schick added two points to our tests which bring my grade up a bit. Thank you Mr. Schick.

First Part of the Population & Settlement notes: - More people than ever!  • Over 7.6 billion people on the planet right now  • 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. Today we discussed birth rates in different countries and why they're different in different countries.  Thank you Mr. Schick, very cool!

TEST OVERVIEW Today we took THE test. The reason I describe it as "THE test" is because I've been dreading it since Mr. Schick said we had a test. Although, surprisingly, I thought it was easy. I am confident in my answers; only one I had doubts about and now know I got it right due to Lizzy asking Mr. Schick for answers, and him (barely) providing them. I studied in my free time all of today, and felt confident with my knowledge of these topics. For some unapparent reason I thought these subjects were a lot harder than they turned out to be. Watch me say all of this and then do worse than I thought. Hopefully that doesn't happen.

Today in class we reviewed for the test that is coming tomorrow. I feel pretty confident with these subjects. We went over the powerpoint with the notes we took in the beginning of the unit. This was actually very useful for remembering these things and refreshing for after the weekend. I will study later and I'm also studying right now so hopefully I will be okay.

Today in class we looked at some test questions written by other people. Joi's test questions were good and David's map was in French. We took a pop quiz, which was easy; I got 8/10 I believe, the two I got wrong were obvious. I probably wouldn't have made the mistake if I had more time or could check the work. On the test there will be site + situation and map things.

Potential Test Questions: 1. The study of where things are found on Earth's surface and reasons why they're there: a. Topography b. Cartography c. Geography d. Absolute Location 2. What are important characteristics for a site? a. Water Source b. Soil c. Climate d. All of the above e. None of the above 3. In what city did they fill in the river to make it twice its original size? a. Manhattan b. Chicago c. New York City d. Ft. Lauderdale 4. What direction are lines of latitude? a. East-West b. North-South c. South-East d South-West 5. The regional position of a situation of a place relative to the position of other places: a. Absolute Location b. Relative Location c. Time Zone d. Eratosthenes Fill in the blank 6. The Equator is 0º latitude. 7. The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich, England at 0º longitude. 8. Lines of longitude are farthest apart at the Equator. 9. How many degrees in each ban...

- Longitude : geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface - Prime Meridian : passes through Greenwich, England; 0º Longitude - Facts about Longitude:   • Known as meridians   • Run in a north-south direction   • Measure east-west    • Farthest apart at Equator    • Halves of great circles - Time Zones : A region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, & social purposes. • Each 15º band of longitude is assigned to a standard time zone - Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) : Primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is often used as a synonym for UTC and GMT predates UTC by nearly 300 years