Blog Day Thirty: 200 Years of Progression of The World

Today in class we watched a video about the relationship between a country's lifespan and the country's GDP per capita. Hans Rosling showed us this data of 200 years in four minutes. In this video Rosling was trying to animate the data he collected in real space. To start in 1810 almost every country was in the bottom left corner of the graph, the lowest life span and smallest GDP per capita. At the time the UK and the Netherlands were at the top with the highest life span and GDP per capita. This mainly because the Industrial Revolution started to develop in these countries. As the graph started to go past the next few years you saw that the African and Asian nations are still stuck in the same corner all the other countries started in. This is because these countries were not involved in the Industrial Revolution. Moving forwards a few years, you saw many nations drop because of the Spanish Flu Epidemic and the First World War. Around 1930 China and India are still some of the poorest countries with the lowest life expectancy and the biggest population. Coming up to the most recent times, when the video was made, in 2009 almost every country has moved out of the poor and sick section of the graph. Rosling thinks that eventually all countries will be able to reach the top corner because of aid, trade, green technology, and peace. I really enjoyed watching this video. It was cool to see all the data progress on the graph. And since today is the 31st, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Blog Day Twenty- Nine: Population Pyramids

Today in class we finished going over the test. We also started to watch a video about population pyramids. In the video I learned that Russia and Nigeria have the same population, only Nigeria is one- sixteenth the size of Russia. Then the video started to discuss population pyramids. I learned that the pyramids are split in half based on gender, and that males are on the left where females are on the right side of the pyramid. The pyramid is also split in five-year increments. With those five year increments the entire chart is split into three different groups. The first at the bottom of the pyramid being pre-reproductive, which runs from ages zero to fourteen. The next group on the middle of the pyramid is the reproductive group, which runs from ages fifteen to forty-four. The last age group at the top of the pyramid is the post reproductive age group, which runs ages forty- five and up. Overall population pyramids are a cool way to track a country's population and I look forward to finishing the video tomorrow.

Blog Day Twenty- Eight: Reviewing Test and Population Pyramids

Today in class we went over the test we took on Friday. I was very happy with my grade. I feel like I was more prepared for this test and I am happy to end the quarter with my test grade. Even though I did get a good grade I think I could have studied even more to get an even better grade. After looking over the test I saw that I did get the question that I was unsure about wrong. But that is okay because you can't get them all right all the time. Also in class we started to independently learn about population pyramids. Some things I found interesting about this way of measuring population is that it is split between male and female. The pyramid is also split by age groups. 0-14 is prereproductive,15-44 is reproductive, and 45- 100+ is post reproductive. Today was a good class, especially because it was an early dismissal day.

Blog Day Twenty- Seven: Test Number Three

Today in class we had our third test. I felt much more prepared for this test. I also felt as though I studied more thoroughly for this test. I liked the format of this test. I liked that we were tested on using the CIA World Factbook because is was pretty easy to navigate once you got the hang of using the database. So far I would say that this has probably been the easiest test we have had this year. Even though I thought it was easy I do think that I may have messed up on one or two of the questions. To improve for the next test I think I just need to look over the PowerPoint and my notes even more than I did this time. I feel like I did well on this test because the unit wasn't very long. Since the unit wasn't long I didn't have to remember things that we may have learned more than two weeks ago. I am excited for the next unit and I hope it will be just as fun to learn about as this unit was.

Blog Day Twenty- Six: Test Day Tomorrow

Today in class we went over questions for the test we have on Friday, tomorrow. It was very nice to have a review and now I know what to study, for the test. Tonight to study I plan on reviewing how to use the CIA world factbook in order to find and answer the questions on tomorrow test more efficiently and in the given time amount. I also plan on looking over my notes, that we took in class for the past few days, multiple times and making sure I know everything that I starred during class today. Finally, I plan on planning out some of the answers that I know will be on tomorrow's test. In order to do that I have to look for push and pull factors that different countries have. Over all I really liked having this review day as I think it will really help in my efforts to get a good grade on this test.

Blog Day Twenty-Five: Reviewing Questions

Today in class we discussed answers to the questions we completed in yesterday's blog. I found it very interesting that both India and China their population is almost greater than the United States by one billion people. The crazy part is that the area of each country is very similar and what is even more interesting is that the United States is almost three times bigger than India. That means that the people in India are more crowded than the people in the United States because India has more people but less land. I also found it interesting that only 76.2% of the United States populations has and uses electricity. That means that about one fourth of our population in the United States does not have access to electricity. I found this so shocking because our society is advanced compare to the rest of the world and having about 25% of our population not having electricity makes me think we are not as advanced as we could be.

Blog Day Twenty Four: Answering Questions with the World Factbook

  Today in Class we answered the Following Questions. 

1. What is the population of China, and of India? 
   The population of China is 1,384,688,986 and the population of India is 1,296,834,042.

2. What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan?

The TFR in Japan is 1.42 children/ woman 

3. What is the death rate in El Salvador?
   The death rate is 5.8 deaths/1,000 population.
4. What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why?
   23-28% Is the percentage of French that identify their religion as none. This statistic is not verifiable because the last census was took in 1872 and it has not been taken since. 
5. What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic?
   82.7 % of mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholics.
6. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in the United States?
   $59,800 is the United States GDP per capita.
7. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Nigeria?
   $5,900 is Nigeria's GDP per capita.
8. What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in Luxembourg?
   $105,100 is Luxembourg's GDP per capita.

9. What percentage of the United States’ population are Internet users?
   76.2% of the United States population uses the Internet.

10. What is the number of airports in Russia, and in the United States?
    There are 1,218 airports on Russia.

11. How many people in the world do not have electricity?

1.201 Billion people don't have electricity.

12. What is the Infant Mortality Rate in Canada, Cuba, and the United States? 
    The IMR for Canada is 4.5 deaths/ 1000 live births, for Cuba is 4.4 deaths/ 1000 live births, United States is 5.7 deaths/ 1000 live births.
13. What is the literacy rate - total, for men, and for women - in Afghanistan?
    The total literacy rate is 38.2% for the total population, 52% for males, 24.2% for females.
14. What three countries have the highest life expectancy?
    Monaco, Japan, and Singapore have the highest life expectancy.
15. What three countries have the lowest life expectancy?
    Lesotho, Zambia, Afghanistan have the lowest life expectancy.
16. What nation has the sixteenth highest Net Migration Rate?
    Monaco has the sixteenth highest NMR.
17. What is the unemployment rate in Vietnam, South Korea, the United States, India and Kenya?
    The Unemployment rate in Vietnam is 2.2%, in South Korea is 3.7%, in the United States is 4.4%, in India is 8.5 %, in Kenya is 40%.
18. Military Expenditures are listed by the percentage of each nation's GDP spent on defense.

What percentage is spent by Germany, China, and the United States?
Germany is 1.24% GDP, China is 1.87% GDP, the United States is 3.16%

19. What three countries produce the most crude oil, and how much do they produce?
The United States produces 10,692,000 BBL/ day, Russia produces 10,759,000 BBL/ day, Saudi Arabia produces 10,425,000 BBL/ day.

20. What three countries import the most crude oil, and how much do they import?
The united States imports 7,969,000 BBL/ day, China imports 6,710,000 BBL/ day, India imports 4,057,000 BBL/ day.

21. What percentage of the world’s people speak Spanish? Chinese? English?
           12.3% speak Chinese, 6% speak Spanish, 5.1% speak English.