Giovanna's Western Civ. Blog

Push Forces civil war environmental degradation unemployment or underemployment religious or ethnic persecution Pull Forces better economic opportunity better health services religious freedom political freedom

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 the death rate from the birth rate. this gives us the annual growth rate- in percentage form- for a country or region Net Migration Rate: the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year. net immigration - An excess person entering the country  Written as a positive number Example : canada has 5.65 migrants per 1000 population United States: 2.45 i t was 3.62 in 2015 net emigration -  An excess of persons leaving the country  written as a negative number-  An excess of persons leaving the country  Example: Mexico has -1.68 migrants per 1000 population.  -3.61 two years ago, and -3.11 last year

Over 7.5 billion people in the world it is increasing by 7.3 million per year by approximately 200,00 per day 8377 per hour 149 per second 2.5 per second 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia and Latin America Life expectancy: the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the sam year.  High: Monaco 89.52 total 85.63 men 93.58 women #42 us 79.68 total 77.32 men 81.97 women Low: Chad 49.81 total 48.64 men 51.03 women Population (in bill.) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Year 1804 1927 1960 1974 1987 1999 2011 Years elapsed 10000+ 123 33 14 13 12 12

Today we took our unit test and I think it went pretty well. There were some questions I wasn't too sure about such as the what is culture and one of the longitude questions. I felt really confident though on my essay. I choose question b and a good descriptive answers. I made sure to answers every part in the answer so I get full credit. I'm not sure how much this test was worth but I'm hoping it was enough to either sustain or raise my grade. I'm hoping I did at least a B or better but we will see.  like taking the tests in this class because we basically come up with the test questions giving me a great source of what to study.

Questions that should be on test tomorrow: how many different times zones are there? 27 What does the prime meridian go through? Greenwich, UK What does GPS stand for? Global Positioning System What made hurricane harvey so devastating? because they put pavement over the roads so the ground couldn't soak up the rain. Who proposed a world wide system of time zones in 1879? Sir Sanford Fleming  What does latitude run from?  BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY PRIME M, EQUATOR, PARAELS, LONGITUDE, LATITUDE ETC. What is region and place?  What is the science and art of making maps? cartography  How many degrees latitude is the equator? 0 degrees What is the difference between a mercator and peters map? peters is more accurate due to size. Mercator is what everyone is used to seeing What is globalization? a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope Give an example of thinking globally and acting locally? Describe advantages and disa

Test Materials for Next Week Geographers use maps as their primary tool for not only identifying points on the earth's surface as a means to compare phenomenon between different places Every places occupies a unique position on the Earth's surface what is the art of science in making maps? cartography 24 different time zones prime meridian is the 0 of longitude goes through Greenwich, UK starts at North Pole ends at South Pole Equal number of degrees between latitude "climbing a ladder"  0 degrees latitude is always the equator 0 degrees longitude is the prime meridian gps- global positioning system

Today was a very sad day in human geo. Mr Schick told us the reason he wasn't here yesterday is because he had to put his dog down, Michael Doglas who was around twelve years old. I had a lab and we had to put him asleep when he was fourteen and I was in second grade. This was extremely hard for everyone but especially for my dad because he got him when he was in college. I can't imagine how hard it must have been to dig his grave and have to know he wouldn't be here soon. I love dogs almost more than people so hearing these stories really made me sad. It also made me think how sad I'd be if I had to put down my current dog. His name is Finley and he just turned four on Tuesday. We had a huge celebration with a cake and a dog ice cream for him. My mom even made him a birthday hat. He's a Cockapoo and he's really feisty to other people but loves my family especially, my mom. We eventually had to move away from the subject of dogs and discuss climate change. Clima

Notes on Globalization  At the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns.  At a local scale, such as an urban neighborhood, geographers tend to see unique features. "Think global, act local" means that the environment was being harmed by processes such as global warming that were global in scale.  Contemporary geographers offer a different version of the phrase: "Think and act both global and local" all scales from local to global are important in geography - the appropriate scale depends on the specific subject It can explain human action at all scales, from local to global At the national and international scales, geography is concerned with such questions as where the population is growing rapidly, where the followers of different religions live, and where corporations place factories Globalization a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope. the process

at the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns We discussed today in class oil, solar panels, and what it means to "think globally act locally". I didn't realize how many things had oil in them. Of course the assumed things like cars, stoves and machines use oil and gas but I didn't realize everything else. Oil is in plastic and Mr Schick showed us how almost every object in his room was made of plastic meaning it consisted of oil. We realized that you need oil to create basic, useful objects.  To "think globally act locally" means what you do in your community affects the world. Producing fresh vegetables from a garden rather than making processed foods helps your health and give your community access to healthier foods. It helps the earth by not releasing harmful gases into the air. Mr. Schick also talked about how he has solar panels on his roof. It's main purpose has been to heat water but has saved him

For class yesterday we finished the worksheet labeling the top twenty-five countries in the world. We had to label them on two maps, the Mercator and the Robinson map. I prefer the Mercator as it is what I've grown up seeing and it makes more sense to me the way it is all laid out. Then we all had to pick one country and state an interesting fact about it. I chose Madagascar and my fact was that the people are Catholic and Muslim and have a population of over 25 million people. The one I found the most interesting is the religion Pastafarian. The people worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster which I found to be very funny. They wear metal strainers and claim it is part of their religion and even say that they must wear them when taking their driver's license picture. Pastafarian religion is probably the most interesting religion I've ever heard of.

Today Mr Schick thought it would be great for us to have a pop quiz which I did not like. Luckily, it was only twenty points so if failed it hopefully it won't take me grade down too much. Then we went on to do our activity but before we started we searched up geoguessr.com that was recommended by one of my classmates. The game is almost impossible because you need to know the exact location of the map they show you which is extremely hard. Then we did the map worksheet using cia.gov where we had to list and label the top twenty-five countries. The 25 countries were: China India US Indonesia Brazil Pakistan Nigeria Bangladesh  Russia Japan Mexico Ethiopia Philippines Egypt Vietnam Congo Iran Turkey Germany Thailand France UK Italy Burma South Africa

The geographic grid is a system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern of Earth's surface. Meridians are arcs drawn between the North and South poles. Each is numbered, according to a system known as longitude. Values range from 0 (prime meridian) to 180 east or west longitude. Parallels are arcs drawn parallel to the equator and at right angles to meridians. Each is numbered according to a system known as latitude. values range from 0 (equator) to 90 north or south parallels=latitude circle grid from east to west latitude = "climbing a ladder" 1 degree= 60 min tropic of cancer= 23.5 N tropic of Capricorn = 23.5 S in between is the tropic arctic circle= 66.5 N equator=0 antarctic circle = 66.5 S meridian= longitude coverage= at poles skinny - thick - skinny prime meridian= 0 in Greenwich, Uk

   Today's class blew my mind with our discussion of time zones and the past, present, and future. Mr Schick mentioned how it should be the same time in every area and I agree. I compared it to the fact that it is October in both Maryland and Australia but in Maryland it is fall and in Australia it is spring. So why does it have to be dark out when it's 10 o'clock? It can be the same time everywhere because the sun rising doesn't have to be the start of your day. Then we went on to talk about how there is no present. Before you say something it's in the future but as soon as you say it it's in the past making present not exist. Mr. Schick even drew a picture to show us how there is no present. We related it to calling the shadow in our class whose name is Autumn, fall. Mr Schick mentioned how he thought about it before (future) because he didn't know how she would react. Then once he said it it was in the past. We also took notes on Sir Sandford Fleming who

Today we started off with complaining about the temperature and making fun of our outfits. We spoke about uniforms and how we all should have fly suits like what Tom Cruise was wearing. We also talked about SAT in honor of the PSAT next Wednesday. We worked on our project some more including Some of the areas such as: California- Democratic Montana-Democratic Kansas- Republican Maryland-Democratic Florida- both Texas- republican Georgia-republican New York-Democratic Maine-Democratic Rhode Island-Democratic

Region: an area at Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics several neighboring countries that share important feature the localities within a country Cultural Landscapes: an area fashioned from nature from a cultural group combination of both human and physical characteristics that uniquely define places and areas We started working on a group project dealing with voting and Republicans and Democratic. My group partners are Maddy and Kelsie. The task for this activity is " Using maps A,B, and C above, create a list of states that voted for the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Presidential election. If asked to create regions based on which states voted for which candidate, how would you do it?".