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.