Test

Today we had a test in Human geography. It was difficult but not too difficult.

Test review

In class today we reviewed for our test on the middle east and world religions. The three religions we studied were Islam, Judiasm, and Islam.

Class 9/17/10 Human geo

In class today we talked about the middle east and how it is mostly desert but controls a lot of oil supplies

Country Classwork

1.  United States - North America
2.  France- Europe
3.  Iraq-  Asia
4.  China - Asia
5.  Saudi Arabia - Asia
6.  Haiti -North America
7.  India- Asia
8.  Japan- Asia
9.  Venezuela- South America
10. Iran- Asia
11. Russia- Europe and Asia
12. The United Kingdom- Europe
13. Israel-  Asia
14. Germany- Europe
15. Tibet- Asia
16. Afghanistan-  Asia
17. Brazil- South America
18. North Korea- Asia
19. Egypt- Africa
20. Kenya- Africa
21. Pakistan- Asia
22. Vietnam- Asia
23. Mexico- North America
24. Cuba- North America

Website used :

"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Web. 16 Sept. 2010. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/>.

September 11 Terrorist attacks assignment

      The morning of September 11, 2001 started like any other morning people were beginning their normal routines. A lot of people were watching the news that morning when after a commercial break the news stations had heard about what was a so called explosion at the World Trade Center in New York City. That turned almost everyone’s attention to New York City and the World Trade Center. At first people had no idea of what to think of this event. Some thought that the explosion might have been a missile, but it was actually a plane intended to take down the World Trade Center. There was a lot of chaos in New York City that morning. As news crews were covering this incident there was a second plane that crashed into the other World Trade Center tower at about 9:03 A.M. Countless witnesses gazed in horror as explosions were seen coming from the Second tower. People quickly realized that New York was under attack. People still had no idea who was responsible for these horrible attacks. Some people were suspecting that these attacks could be terrorist attacks. They were right but, people weren’t sure at the time. Later everyone would know who was responsible for these attacks. This day wasn’t over yet. No one knew but there were still more planned attacks for the day. One took place at the Pentagon, which is one of the military buildings for the United States. One side of it was severely damaged. There was one more plane that was hijacked it crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The destination of that plane was unknown because the passengers of the plane had heard about what happened in New York City. So they decided to try to retake control of the plane. The passengers of the plane didn’t know how to fly it so it crashed in a field The United States had no idea who was responsible for all of these attacks. Since that morning, airlines have been extremely careful of what they allow on planes because of the threat of hijackers.






Q and A with my mom.



Q: On the morning of September 11, 2001 what were you doing that morning?



A: I was at St. Margaret School working as a teacher’s aid for second grade and heard about it so I went on the internet and watched news clips. We didn’t tell the kids but a lot of parents were calling I got my husband Scott to pick up my son Andrew and i picked up my daughter Emily.





Q: Did you see the newscast of the twin towers? If so what was the first thing you saw?



A: Yes i saw the newscast I listened watched wasn’t really scared because I knew God would take care of whatever was going on.



Q: What was going through your mind when you saw this on the news?



A: I was worried about people I knew that might be near New York or the Pentagon. I thought that my husband came home the day before this happened he was visiting his friend in New Hampshire and his friend wanted him to stay another day but he decided to come home so if he had stayed any longer he would have been stuck in New Hampshire.





Q: Where were you when you first heard about this?



A: I was in the hallway talking to other teacher’s aids at St. Margaret School



Q: Explain what happened the rest of that day?



A: I got my kids out of school and we stayed home the rest of the day.



There were some long term effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the day of the attacks the stock market did not open that day. The stock market did not reopen until September 17, 2001 and when it opened the stocks had dramatically dropped. The value of stocks dropped so much that a record was set for the largest drop of stocks in one day in U.S history. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at the lowest since December 1998. Airlines were shut down for many days. This made the airline companies loose extreme amounts of profits. Even after airlines were allowed to resume flights many people were afraid to fly because of the attacks on September 11th. Many airline companies went out of business and other were in danger of going out of business. There were some health effects because of the collapsing of the Twin Towers. Many emergency workers didn’t have masks or protection from the contaminates in the air. These contaminates were responsible for lung and heart damage for many emergency workers. A lot of the nearby buildings were damaged. Airplane travel eventually came back to where it was before the attacks but it took a long time to do.

BTS

Airline Networks: An Econometric Framework to Analyze Domestic U.S. Air Travel." RITA
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/volume_07_number_01/html/paper_06/>.


"Markets Reopen, Plunge - Chicagotribune.com." Chicago Tribune Breaking News, Sports, Weather and Traffic in Chicago - Chicagotribune.com. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-010917markets,0,5287650.story>.



"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/television/11dust.html?_r=1&ref=nyregionspecial3>.



"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/television/11dust.html?_r=1&ref=nyregionspecial3>.

Human geo vocab

Geography - The features of the earth like landforms and populations of countries and states and the industries. http://www.dictionary.com/

Globalization- to extend all over the globe. http://www.dictionary.com/

population- total nuber of people living in an area like a country or sate etc. http://www.dictionary.com/

immigration- migration of people to another country who aren't natives of that country. http://www.wordreference.com/

industrialization- the development of industry. http://www.wordreferece.com/

culture- the tastes in art and manners by a social group. http://www.wordreference.com/

religion- a set of beliefs including why things happen in nature and the creation and purpose of the universe. http://www.dictionary.com/




top five world poulations according to CIA factbook

1. China
2. India
3. United States
4. Indonesia
5. Brazil

Top 5 world religions according to http://www.godweb.org/

1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Hinduism
4. Buddism
5. Judaism

The estimation of the population of the world is about 6.7 billion www.google.com/publicdata

Human Geo Did you know?

It only took two years for facebook to have 50 million users and it took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. This means that technology spreads much faster than before. New ideas can be spread much faster than before. I think it is good and bad.It's good because people can spread ides faster. It is bad because bad ides can spead faster too.