Monday, October 11, 2010

Pop Quiz

Today in class we had a pop quiz on population pyramids and vocabulary from the class.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Homecoming Week Friday Notes

90% of poopulation growth is in developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.


Population will reach 7 billion by 2011

Life expectancy- Average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.

United States- 78 years

Swaziland- 32 years

Rate of natural increase is births minus deaths

Net Migration Rate- The imagrants minus emigration

More people migrating now than ever before

Push forces- enviornmental degradation, economic trouble

Pull factors- better economy, better health care


Total Fertility rate- average number of children born per woman in her lifetime

For a population to remain the same TFR must be 2.1

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Thursday Notes

Talked about migration rate. Push factor-  Want to get out of a country for reasons like, Religion Ethnical differences. Pull factor- want to go to a country for reasons like, good economy better living.

Population Pyramid- Shows population by age groups.

Forgot to Blog Yesterday

I forgot to blog yesterday. Yesterday we wemt over the homework that was assigned. We compared countries.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Looking over a Test

In class, we worked on checking over our tests we took. I was surprised on how well I did on the test.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Human Geo Terms

Definitions of terms

Life Expectancy- The number of years that a person is expected to live depending on where they live, their heritage, country, and their health. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life+expectancy

Crude birthrate- Rate of childbirths per 1,000 people per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_birth_rate#cite_ref-0

Crude deathrate- number of deaths per year compared to the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_death_rate

RNI ( rate of natural increase)- crude birthrate minus the crude deathrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_natural_increase

TFR ( total fertility rate) - the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

net migration rate- the difference of immagrants and emigrants of an area over time per 1,000 people that live in the area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_migration_rate

population pyramid- a pyramid shaped graph that shows how many people a certain age, organized by gender.   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/population+pyramid


life expectancy
Japan 82.2  3rd good eating habits and good lifestyle
France 80.98 8th good lifestyle
Kenya 57.86 189th
Cuba 77.45 55th
United States 78.11 49th
Afganistan 44.4 219th reason presence of war

Crude Birthrate
Japan 7.64 222nd
Kenya 36.64 29th
Ethiopia 43.66 7th
United States 13.83 154th
Germany 8.18 220th

Death rate
Afganistan 17.83 7th
Kenya 9.72 67th
United States 8.38 99th
Japan 9.54 69th
 Mexico 4.8 192nd

TFR (total fertility rate)
 Niger 7.68 1st
 Afghanistan 5.5 13th
 Japan 1.2 218th
 United States 2.06 126th
 Germany 1.42 196th

 net migration rate
Mexico -3.61 153rd
 United States 4.32 25th
 United Arab Emirates 22.98 1st
 Argentina 0 73rd
 Saudi Arabia -7.6 171st
 Uganda -8.83 173rd

Rain Day?

We didn't have class yesterday because we got out early because it rained 5 inches in one day!