class on 11/29

today in class we first discussed the world international migrant percentages. the packet that we reviewed yesterday said that the percentage was 3% and the powerpoint that we went over had 9%. we discussed these differences in percentage because that is a pretty big difference. we talked about it and people in the class looked it up on different government or world websites to try and find the actual answer. we mostly think the reason for this big gap is because of the years that each of these learning devices were published in different years or another reason for this could be because of a mistake made in the powerpoint which was the one that said 9%. as we researched this topic and found that there is no way that it could be 9%. it is most likely closer to 3 even though this is still rising. i thought that this was very interesting.

migration packet

Today in human geography we didn’t do much work or much of taking notes and learning new material. At the beginning of the mod we were given a packet about migration. This packet was basically telling us the same material that we had learned yesterday from the PowerPoint, except this material was from a human geography book. We were assigned to highlight or mark all of the things that we had learned yesterday that were in the packet. At the end of the mod mr schick pulled up the powerpoint that he taught from yesterday and we began to compare and contrast some of the things from the packet and things from the powerpoint. We didn’t come across too may diffirences, but we did come across a few. Mr schick explained why they might be diffirent. That was mostly all we did today in class. I have enjoyed learning about migration and the cool things that come along with it.

migration

Key issues: 

èWhere are migrants distributed?

èWhy do people migrate?

èWhere do people migrate within a country?

èWhy do migrants face obstacles?

Mobility: general term; all movements 

-      Journeying each day to school

-      Visits to local shops 

-      Annual trips to visit relatives 

Circulation: short term acts of mobility 

-      College students moving to college but coming back to visit family for holidays but then goes back to where they live.

Migration: permanent move to a new location

-      Emigration is moving from location

-      Immigration is moving to a location

èRavensteen’s “laws”:

1.    Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain in the same country

2.    Long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of eco activity

Migration can be divided into 2 categories: 

1.    International migration- permanent move from one country to another 

2.    Internal migration- permanent move within the same country 

Approximately 9 percent of the worlds people are international migrants 

Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries 

-      Net out- migration (Asia, Latin America, Africa)

Net in- migration (North America, Europe, Ocea

population quiz

today in class we had a short 10 question quiz. it was on a paper that we filled out yesterday that was about population things etc. i am almost certain that i got a 100% on this quiz, as it was basically just the same stuff that was on the worksheet except it was multiple choice answers. i will be checking veracious over the weekend to see how i did. this is the last day that we are in school until the break for thanksgiving and i want all my grades to be in a a good place so that i won't have to worry at all over the break. this lesson about population incoming to an end and i am kind of sad because this stuff has actually been fun to learn about. but im sure the next thing will be just as fun too!!

video from Hans Rosling

today in class ww watched a video about population and migration. this video featured a man named hans gosling, who proceeded to explain the statistical analysis of the population and migration. he teaches a college course on global health. hans rosling constructed this pretty cool chart which had two separate line axises with the X-axis as income or wealth and the Y-axis as lifespan or expectancy. he described the lower, left hand side as the poor and sick. he then described the upper, right hand side as the rich and wealthy. in this demographic transition chart that he showed in his video, the birth rate, death rate, and total population were given over time in five different stages. stage one the country would be experiencing a stable or slow RNI due to the high birth rate and high death rate, stage two would be experiencing high birth rate and a rapidly falling death rate. the united states was in stage one around the early 1800's.

class november 16

Population structure:

-      Sex ratio: Defined as the number of males per 100 females in the population. Developed countries have more females than males because they tend to love longer. 

The demographic transition

-      It is a model consisting of 4 stages that helps to explain the rising and falling of natural increase over time in a country. Historically no country has ever reverted back to a stage

-      Thus, the model can be thought to have a beginning, middle, and an end. 

-      Stage one: low growth- marked by very high birth and death rates

-      Stage two: high growth- marked by rapidly declining death rates and high birth rates

-      Stage three: moderate growth- marked by rapid decline in birth rates, steady death rate

-      Stage four: low growth- marked by very low birth rate and death rate. 

Declining birth rates:

Two successful strategies for low birth rate:

1.    Improving education and health care

2.    Contraception: more immediate results 

global population

Why is the global population increasing?

Components of population growth:

-      Natural increase

o  About 82 million people are added to the population of the world annually 

o  More than 95% of the natural increase is in developing countries 

o  Rate of natural increase affects the doubling time- number of years needed to double the population, assuming there is a constant rate of natural increase

-      Fertility

o  Total fertility rate (TFR) 

§ Measure used by geographers to measure number of births in a society 

§ Defined as the average number of children a woman can have throughout her childbearing years which are 14 to about 40

§ TFR for the world is about 2.5

-      Mortality

o  Infant mortality rate

§ Measure used by geographers to better understand death rates in society

§ Defined as the annual number of deaths of infants under the age of one, compared within total live births

§ Usually expressed per 1000 births rather than a percentage 

§ IMR is 5 in developed countries and 80 in sub-Saharan Africa 

-      Summary of spatial patterns

o  Developed countries 

§ Lover rates of…

1.    Natural increase

2.    Crude birth

3.    Total fertility 

4.    Infant mortality

o  Developing countries 

§ Lower rates of…

1.    Natural increase

2.    Crude birth

3.    Total fertility 

4.    Infant mortality 

blog 11/13

Today in class we went over our tests that we took last week, and we got them back today. I had felt like I did pretty good after i took it. I got it back and I got an 89%, which was pretty much what I thought I got. I got some of the math part wrong (which isn’t surprising because I am not very good at math) but all of the other geography questions I got correct. This helped my human geography grade a lot. It brought it up from an F to a B. we just reviewed all of the questions and I corrected all of the ones that I got wrong. I am hoping that my grade in this class will be better this quarter rather than last quarter. We have no other homework in this class today except for the blog as usual. The blogs are something that I need to make sure I am doing, because if I would have done all of them last quarter and submitted them on time, I would have had a better grade. I often forget about it or put it aside and never get to it, but its honestly really easy and only takes a little bit of time, so I need to make sure I am keeping up with that. 

human geo 11/8/18

key issues:

- how do geographers describe where things are?
- why is each point on earth unique?
- why are different places on earth similar?
- why are some human actions not sustainable?
- where is the world population distributed?
- why is the global population increasing everyday?
- why does population growth vary among regions?
- why do some regions face certain health issues/ threats?

-population concentrations:
- 2/3 of the worlds inhabits are clustered in these 4 regions:
1. east asia
2. south asia
3. southeast asia
4. europe

- site the situations of the population clusters
1. low laying areas with firtle soil and temp. climate
2. near an ocean or river with easy access to the river or ocean

sparsely populated regions
humans often avoid clustering in certain environments
1. dry lands
2. wet lands
3. cold lands
4. high lands

human geography test: 11/7/18

today in class we had a test in human geography. the test was not that hard, as the first 15 questions were allowed to be answered from the CIA world fact book website. the next questions on the test were all fill in the blanks and we were given a word bank so that was very helpful. i believe that i might have done pretty well, even though i guessed on some things, i think i did well. this lesson was not very challenging, as we just mostly learned off of the CIA website and powerpoint that Mr. Schick had provided for us. i mostly enjoyed the population pyramids. those were fun and they also helped me learn better than if it was just in writing. i am more of a visual learner rather than a learner from notes. hopefully this test was a good turn out and a good first grade for the new quarter.

11/6/18

today in class we reviewed for our test tomorrow which would be on what we have been studying and looking at for the past few days. i thought it would be a goof idea to look over all of my blogs from this lesson so that i would just remember what we talked about each day and the main points. it would also be a good idea to check out your blog so that in case i missed any information i was sure to know about that too. luckily, the first 15 mins of the test ( the first 15 questions) were allowed to be searched up using the CIA world facebook. this was very resourceful and helpful. we will see how i do on the test tomorrow. i am hoping i am well enough prepared.