Intro to Human Geography

In class today we watched more of the Guns, Germs and Steel video.  We learned and talked with the class about how there are still Native American Tribes around today like the ancient people we study. The tribe in the video is from Papau New Guinea.  They have their men hunt and their women gather.  The women gather by chopping down sago trees and hacking out the middle to get to a sap that they can turn into food.  One tree provides about 80 pounds of food.  Although the New Guineans are always in need of food, a lot of the meat they catch and food/ grain they gather ends up going to waste due to their lack of ability to store and save food.

In class today Mr. Schick went over all of our exam grades.  I got an 85 overall with the exam and essay combined.  I feel like I could've done better on the essay but the exam I thought I was ready for besides the parts from the beginning of the year that I never learned.  I'm pleased with all of my exam grades so far, I still haven't gotten my bio exam grade though.  We also did a little bit of research on the Guns, Germs and Steel video.  It was a book that National Geographic made a three-part video to and we're watching the first part.  It's about how the different continents developed differently based on their geographic location.

Today in class we worked some more on our essay for the exam.  I worked out with Mr. Schick when I'm going to actually do the essay exam since I won't be at school when we do it.  We're supposed to do it in class on Friday but I'm leaving Thursday to go to my cousins wedding.  I emailed Mr. Hollin, Mrs. Cathell and Mr. Schick to tell them that I wouldn't be here.  I think I'm going to do good on the essay.  I chose the B promt and I really like population pyramids which is what they're about so I think I'll do good.  I'm really excited to go to the wedding  because it's in Florida, I know it won't be super nice but at least better than Maryland.  

In todays class we started typing and researching our essay topic and here's what I've got so far: Country A and Country B are in two different stages of the demographic transition.  They will both face different concerns in the future if their population pyramids remain the same.  Country A and B will experience different stages in the demographic transition that will change their population pyramids and could arise potential issues. The demographic transition is a series of stages that a country experiences as it develops.  A country’s first stage has high crude birth and death rates and the NIR slowly increases. Stage one has high birth rate and rapidly declining death rate so the NIR increases rapidly.  Stage two usually happens when a revolution occurs. Stage three has rapidly declining birth rate, moderately declining death rate and a moderate NIR. This happens when people have fewer children.  Stage four has a very low birth rate, slightly incr...

Khan Academy - you measure the growth of a population by adding the number of babies born, and immigrants coming into the country and subtract the number of deaths and people leaving the country - you can find the percent of growth rate by subtracting the population from the beginning of the year from the current population and then dividing that by the same number of population from the beginning of the year, last times it by 100 - if the growth rates positive the population is growing, if it's negative the population is decreasing Kim Smith - from the Agricultural revolution to the Industrial revolution the population grew by 67,000 people per year, now we gain that amount of people every 6-7 hours -t he exponential growth that we are experiencing is not expected to level off until around 2050 - by 2050 we are expected to have a population of around 9-10 billion people Why Populations Grow - I ndustrial Revolution was the key starting point of the population boom - t he...

Today in human geography Mr. Schick told us about all the stuff we have coming up in class, leading to exams. I'll absent on the 12th and 13th which is when we are writing our essay as part of the exam so I'll have to email him about that later.  He gave us a packet to read and highlight about demographic transition.  I hate reading so I don't know how but I didn't space out at all when I read that.  It talked about the four stages that countries go through in their population change.  The first is a high crude birth and death rate and a low NIR.  The next stage is a high CBR, rapidly declining CDR and a high NIR.  This happens when some sort of a revolution occurs, for Europe and North America it was the Industrial Revolution and for Africa, Asia, and Latin America it was the medical revolution.  Stage three has a rapidly declining CBR, a moderately declining CDR and a moderate NIR.  This happens when the CBR drops dramatically while the CDR cont...

I did horrible on the quiz yesterday.  I did so much worse than I thought I did, I got a 36 out of 50 and I thought I would get like a 40 out of 50.  My grade came out to a 73%, I don't think I've done that bad on a quiz in a long time.  I also studied a lot for it.  I even rewrote out my notes.  Oh well.  We're waiting for Nick to take the quiz because he was absent yesterday and then when he's done we're going to check it.  I went to the bathroom before class started and I saw Kenzie in there so we walked down to class together and she told me about how she was upset because she got a bad grade on her math test and the human geo quiz.  It made me feel a little better though since I got a bad grade on it too.  Mr. Schick yelled at Christo and after lunch I fell up the stairs and landed on my head and my head ache still hasn't gone away.  H A P P Y   T H A N K S G I V I N G !