today

today we found the answer to our question what percentage of the world's population are international immigrants? welp, I'm happy to say I was right. The answer is 3.4%, we searched the internet to find our answer today in class. We found many different websites that proved that in 2017 the percentage was 3.4%. The question we're bound to ask is why did the powerpoint say 9% and where did they get it from. That surprisingly didn't come up in class. After that, we started talking about Trump and the wall. I can't stand politics but that lead us into a podcast talking about asylum and what it really means and is trump using it right.

today

we were given textbook pages of the powerpoint we're taking notes on. We were supposed to highlight the things we found that were also in the powerpoint. A big difference we found was it said 3% when the powerpoint said 9%. Tomorrow we are going to go over it in class and find out which one is right. One was a statistic in 2015 and the other in 2014. And that's a pretty big difference for only one year. Personally, I think the correct one is 3%. I very anxious to find out surprisingly. But that's really all we did in class pretty boring and pretty quiet.

migration

• mobility is a generalized term that refers to all types of movements
• circulation is short-term and repetitive acts of mobility
• a permanent move to a new location is a migration
• Ravenstein's "laws"
• most migrants relocated a short distance and remain within the same country
• long distance migrants to other countries and head for major cites (economic activity)
• migration can be divided into two categories
• international (one country to another)
• voluntery
• forces
• internal (within same country)
• interregional
• intraregional
• 9% of the world's people are international migrants
• the global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries
• net out migration
• asia, latin america, africa
• net in migration
• north america, europe, oceanic
• The US has more foreign-born residents than any other country: 43 million as of 2010-growing by 1 million every year
• three main eras of immigration in the US
• colonial settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries
• mass european immigration in late 19th and early 20th centuries
• asian and Latin American integration in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

quiz

today we took our quiz on our worksheet we filled out yesterday on the video we watched. 10/10, and if not then I need to go to the doctor. That was probably the easiest quiz I ever took. I was the worksheet but in multiple-choice form. Same questions in the same order with the same answers. So today's class went pretty well. On the other hand, there's something wrong with my blogs and I don't know what. I haven't been getting 100% for a reason I am unsure of. I'm going to see Mr. Schick after class to talk about it and I'm worried that it's going to be super dumb and I'm not going to be able to get those points back. And those points add up alright. Our grades are literary blogs and a couple test and quizzes here and there, but most blogs. So I hope it's something I can make it. Fingers crossed.

today

today we watched a video an answered questions that were answered in the video. The video, I thought, was very good, I learned a lot. I thought how it was very cool that they had that type of technology. I saw how income and life expectancy changed over type in different places of the world. We answered questions and will have a quiz on the worksheet tomorrow. Thanksgiving week, so only two days of school and it's a lot different from middle school. Teachers are actually teaching this week. That's how you know it high school haha. The second quarter has started pretty well. I've been doing good with my work considering basketball started and I hope it stays that way.

diving deeper notes 3

• population structure
• sex ratio
• defined as the number of males per 100 females in the populatio
• demographic transtion
• why natural increase rises and falls
• four stages
• stage 1: low growth
• marked byvery high birth and death rates
• stage 2: high growth
• marked by rapidly declining death rates and very high birth rtes
• stage 3: moderate growth
• marked by rapid decline in birth rate and steady decline in death rate
• stage 4: low growth
• marked by very low birth and death rates
• population change in result from immigration
• declining birth rates
• two successful strategies for lowering birth rates
• improving education and health care
• contraception (birth control)

diving deeper notes 2

• components of population growth
• natural increase
• about 82million people are added to the population of the world annually
• more than 95% of the natural increase is clustered in developing countries
• fertility (TFR)
• TFR of the world 2.5(CIA: 2.42)
• mortality (IMR)
• 5 in developed countries and 80 in sub-Saharan Africa
• summary of spatial patterns
• developed countries
• lower rates of...
• natural increase
• crude birth
• infant mortality
• total fertility
• developing countries
• higher rates of...
• natural increase
• crude birth
• infant mortality
• total fertility
• population structure: a special graph know as a population pyramid can visually display a country's distinctive population structure
• baby boom 1946-1961
• population structure
• dependency ratio
• defined as the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years (dependents are 0-14 and65 and up)

test review

today we got our test back and went over the answers. I'm really proud of myself, I got a 96% that's about 10% better of what I got last time. I got the two questions wrong that I thought I got wrong so no surprise there. I'm really happy with myself and I've really been improving in that class. I'm interested in diving deeper into this unit, I find it very cool. Today I had a couple more test that I thought I did well on and my day hasn't been that bad. life has been the norm. which is nice not having to deal with change. But also I don't think anyone wants to change. So things have been pretty good and to be honest I hope it stays that way lol.

diving deeper notes

• population concentration
• 2/3 of the world's inhabitants are clustered in four regions:
• east Asia
• south Asia
• southeast Asia
• europe
• site and situation of population clusters
• low lying areas with fertile soil and temperature climate
• near an ocean or near a river with easy access to an ocean
• sparsely populated region
• humans avoid clustering in a certain physical environment
• drylands
• wet lands
• cold lands
• high lands
• places considered too harsh for occupancy have diminished over time
• population density
• density can be computed in up to three ways for a place
• arithmetic
• total number of objects in an area
• computation: divide the population by land area
• physiological
• number of people supported by a unit area of arable land
• computation: divide the population by the arable land area
• agricultural
• a ratio of the number of farmers to amount of arable land
• computation: divide the population of farmers by the arable land area
• components of population growth
• geographers measure population change in a country or the world as a whole by using three measure
• crude birth rate (CBR)
• crude death rate (CDR)
• the rate of natural increase (RNI)

test day

We took the test today. I thought it went alright. There were a few questions I were unsure or didn't know, so that's great. But I did the best I could. I had an off mod beforehand so I studied that entire time. But every time a take a test I always feel uneasy. I have a 100 right now because of blogs and so I hope I do well enough to keep my grade at an A. The section with cia.gov was super easy. I had it of trouble finding the GDP but besides I feel pretty good about it. I hope the test went well and I hope it went well for everyone else. Fingers crossed.

review day... somewhat

today we learned that we have a test tomorrow. Yay! we spent part of the class on the CIA world factbook searching for things that will be on the test. we only have 15mins to answer 15 question. ooo pressure and I'm not being sarcastic. but then, I don't remember how it came up, we started talking about movies Mr. Schick worked on. It was super cool. He's worked with Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Samuel Jackson, Meryl Streep, and Keanu Reeves! I'm like, " Are you saying you talked to Harrison Ford?" "Yes," and he said it so calmly and unenthusiastically to like it's no big deal that he talked a huge actor. Like... WHAT!!

Today

Today we went on a field trip to the basilica in Baltimore to learn more about John Carroll. It was ok, I'm not a huge history person but it was very beautiful, you can't deny that. We only had mods one, eight and nine and human geo was mod nine. we talked a little about the field trip but we also watched a TED-ed video on population pyramids. I thought it was a cool video but what was even cooler was the video he showed us of a TED talk he went too with a supermodel. I loved her and her message. It was that in the U.S. pretty white women and young black men aren't treated the same. Cops let the pretty white girl go and the search the young black man. This is something I've always believe in and I thought it was awesome she came out about it. Shout out to her.

Today

Today we looked at more population pyramids. We went to a website that showed us a population pyramid from 1950 to 2100. We could see it for different places and we evaluated what type of pyramid it was. For example, the U.S. is a box. I found it very cool seeing how the pyramids change. Back in 1950, the U.S. used to be a Christmas tree. But over time things change. We looked at the world, the U.S., Japan, Nigeria. Each has a major difference from the other and we saw the change in population over time from the past and even in the future. I wondered what Japan's pyramid would look like during world war two, but it didn't go back that far so I was a bit disappointed but what can you do.