Nicks Geographic Angle

Today we enjoyed a video, that was not without constant pause, regarding life span (or life expectancy) vs income (GDP). Now i'm not complaining that there was constant pausing, because it was necessary! The amount of information we viewed was astonishing and we had to make the decision of whether the data was important enough to write down. The amount of data we saw was likely partly how the video got its name, "200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes". As you can imagine, viewing such a large quantity of data at once would be hard to do, unless it was stretched over time and each time a shift in data occurred, there was an explanation. This is exactly what happened in the video presented by now late Hans Rosling. He showed on a graph the comparison between GDP and Life Expectancy (Independent and Dependent Variable) over 200 years, there were also 200 nations on the graph, size based on population which we would see alter though the years. And every few years he would

For days, I had wondered what the odd tree shaped graph in which we call a "population pyramid" is. Today I found out that it was a statistic that can be used as a value (population) or as a percentage in which represents the different amounts of population in different age groups. They traditionally go in increments of 5 years, ex. 0-4 and 10-14. We also discussed how much information can be conveyed from a simple population pyramid such as the one below:   Japan Population Pyramid: As you can probably notice, there is a surprising amount of population around the older percentile, in which can't reproduce. Which likely means (unless Japans migration laws ease up) that Japans population will begin to fall, as they are now. But when these older citizens grow older and older, disabling them from reproducing, this will become a huge problem for their economy. According to Mr. Schick, it is possible for men to take part in

After a brief discussion on the languages commonly spoke around the world, we began to look over our tests we had just been given back. Personally,  i'm happy with a 96, since I know others had lower. This is not to say that there wasn't anyone with a better grade than me.  Just like I stated in other blogs, I feel as if I struggled with the GDP questions although I knew them. I stumbled on them mostly because I was unaware some would be used more than once. This still had little impact on my overall score, which even improved my grade by three points, still an A! I continued to ask questions throughout the duration of class regarding languages. These questions were mostly me asking why there are so many languages, to which I received no definitive answer, with the exception of a questioning of my caffeine intake. Which was okay. I seriously wonder this question because It would make everyone's life much easier, apparently it wouldn't because we would have to n

Today we had what I presume to be the last test of this quarter. Meaning that in order to keep my 90% an A, I had to do good. I felt confident going into the test, as well as when I was going over the World Facebook content. I got a little less optimistic when I got confused over the GDP and the Unemployment rate. Both of which I looked up at home and still couldn’t figure it out, those two questions were worded very awkwardly. Hopefully I didn’t get those wrong, which is a 50%, 50% chance now.  I felt the extensive practice I did on my own time really helped me with being able to locate the needed info for the test faster. This then enabled me to take my time while working on the remainder of the test.  I also felt very confident with the Push and Pull factors since I believe I have extensive knowledge regarding current world climate, this definitely helped in giving some basic examples of why someone may want to immigrate or emigrate to a different country/region.  Last but su

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A BLOG POST, THIS IS PRACTICE FOR TEST This will be my attempt at completing 10 Questions from Mr. Schicks blog in under ten minutes. Here goes nothing:  1. India has a population of 1,296, 834,042  China has a population of 1,384,688,986 2. 1.42  3. 5.8 Deaths/ 1000 4. 23-28% of French's population affiliate with no religion. This reading though, is not accurate because France doesn't affiliate its government at all with religion. 5. 82.7% 6. 59, 800$ 7. 5,980$ 8. 105, 100$ 9. 76.2%  10.  Russia: 1,218 Airports United States: 13,513 Airports Not bad... not bad. 10 Questions in about 9 Minutes

Today, instead of having class, I am to get on a bus with a ton sweaty teens like myself. This is a little disappointing as i'm more interested in this class as compared to others. I feel as if the information we are told to study and assessed on are subjects that are in the interest of learning for future generations. This especially includes the subject at hand in class, Population and Settlement. This topic is especially vital to our lives (not really as American citizens) but to those in more dense countries such as India. In nations like them, population is out of control since mothers tend to give birth to many children. In class we learned that this was done plenty of times in cases where the mother bore no males, who would presumably carry on as a patriarch. Since Mr. Schick said I only needed to do a brief Blog Post, I just reviewed our last classes. I also just got done talking with Ramona regarding anything I missed in class. Today class consisted of reviewing for the t

Instead of moving onto the next subject today, we went into several tangents that may have just contributed to our class session today. First off we discussed our answers on our CIA World Factbook answers he did for homework last night. This can be found in my previous blog post. We spent most of the class reviewing these responses. Since the CIA World Factbook has such a great UI (User Interface) it was almost impossible to get an answer wrong if you've done the minimal practice.  I was ecstatic to find that we would have this as a part of our upcoming test. I found the CIA World Factbook to be accurate for finding facts about Geography's ranging topics. Having about half of this be our test likely means a good grade is in my favor.  Towards the end of class, I began asking heated questions. Which may or may have been all that good. I questioned what the taxes were for such countries as Luxembourg and we didn't really dig for an answer.  I took the liberty of find

Today we had to answer these questions regarding the world's climate in a number of subjects. We used The CIA World Fact Book ( https://www.cia.gov/index.html )  1. What is the population of China, and of India?  China's Population: 1,384,688,986 (July 2018 Est.) India's Population: 1,296,834,042 (July 2018 Est.) 2. What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan?  1.42 Children born/women (2018 Est.) 3.  What is the death rate in El Salvador? 5.8 deaths/1,000 population 4. What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why? 23-25% of Frances' population does not affiliate with any religion. Though this may not be too accurate because the French government hasn't taken count (or census) since 1872 because the government attempts to not affiliate with its citizens personal beliefs. 5. What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic? Roman Catholic Citizens

Today, just like many other classes, we discussed population. We also took plenty of notes regarding a method of recording the rate in which an areas population grows. This method is called RNI, or Rate of Natural Increase. I go in depth on RNI below: RNI is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate.  We get those two rates by calculating the number of deaths or births from a sample size of 1000 people.  What we didn't touch up on initially is the Net Migration Rate (NMR), which has a significant impact on the total population of a region. NMR is calculated similarly to how Death and Birth rates are found. This means that for the amount of people leaving a region within a sample size of 1000 are to be used to create a figure.  Ex. In class we learn that Canada's NMR is surprisingly higher than the United States, meaning that more people are immigrating (going to Canada), then are to the United States.  United States NMR: 2.45 Canada NMR:

Today we went deep into the differences in men and women's day to day lives. This may sound political, but we were able to state facts with reasonable evidence and also make correlations between those lifestyles and how long we tend to live. Diving deeper, we connected how men tend to take more risks and take jobs that tend to include dangers which of course can lead to shorter life span. For example, men who join the military are risking their life in hopes they will be able to bring peace to, or an income to their family. If a large sum of men in a given district join the military and go to war, then in return we may see a decrease in the average life span of men given that many may be killed or badly injured in their occupation. With that said, more men join the military which may be a part of why a certain area has women living longer on average.  We also analyzed our country's spot on a list of average lifespans between genders along with a total average between t

Today, we reviewed our recent test. Put simply,  it could've gone better. That goes for everyone though, according to Mr. Schick, the worst graded area was the Relative vs. Absolute location area. We were instructed to specify whether a given location explanation was on of those choices, e.g. 12 N, 50 S. Though I wasn't there to learn about classifying these locations in class, Mr. Schick said that I should've looked on the website; fair enough.  We made a diplomatic decision in class that results in everyone receiving an extra two points because that section apparently wasn't all that known by students, including me to a degree. Now that i have been in Mr. Schick's class for an extended duration, I feel that anymore assessments given I should be able to ace!  Last but surely not least comes a great studying strategy! It will become more and more known that I always look for better ways to study, including Quizlets, Flashcards, and writing things on my wh

We had a fun day in Human Geography today, I also found out that Mr. Schick doesn't tend to hand out extra credit. Other than taking time during our class to go over other work since another student was taking the test we took yesterday; we discussed Population.  Although we weren't able to go too far into the wide spectrum of population, I took charge in researching whether the world population (of humans of course) would ever slow down substantially or even halt completely. I looked to The Pew Research Center for my answer. I found a substantial amount of evidence on their web page (linked in works cited) and that they have predictions that world population growth is set to nearly stop by the 22nd Century. This is mostly due to the fact that the average fertility rate in women is projected to go down to about 1.9 Births per woman.  Finally, near the end of class, we took notes on how there are over 7.6 Billion people on earth and that rate is growing insanely fast! A

Though I may not have gotten every answer right, I feel pretty confident with the soon to come results of our Human Geography Test. I noticed that a lot of things I didn't study for made up the test, I didn't study them mostly because I was not here for half of the classes. It's a huge relief to have finished the test in what I believe is the first one I have taken so far at John Carroll, the others have mostly been quizzes. I like the format in which we took the test, it leaves less room for error, which is great of course! The only issue I have with the Scantron  is that they sometimes seem a little out of sync with the questions and I sometimes mark the wrong bubble though I know which one I wanted to select, I assume its the location of each bubble. I feel that for the amount of classes in which I've attended in this Honors class, I have excelled on studying and applying my notes to studying. Like many of my other classes, I tend to make a Quizlet and I study th

Unlike others students, I began class with a second attempt at the Central, North, and South American country labeling quiz. I aced it the second time, though the same cannot be said for the first go!  As for the rest of class we reviewed some key questions that may be on the upcoming test (which i'm studying for quite a lot). We have really exaggerated gaining a deeper knowledge of Latitude and Longitude, mostly about how there's to be plenty of it on the test. I personally feel as if I've worked out a good way to remember and utilize the concept of latitude and longitude... mostly because I've practiced and have gone over plenty of maps throughout the course of a few years.  After rehearsing Latitude and Longitude, we worked on time zones and discussed even further the politics behind these "zones". I, along with others, were unaware there was such politics behind these incentives of moving towards a single time system . After some information on the

I was absent today and from the looks of it, we didn't go over any new content. If we did, I will gather that tomorrow. 

Honors Human Geography Test Mock Questions 1. Maps serve two purposes, what are they? (Circle Two) a. As a reference tool to identify an object's Absolute and Relative Location.  b. As a tool to discover the direction in which an object is roughly located c. As a two dimensional model of earths surface which can be perfectly fitted to a 2d image.  d. As a communication tool to convey the distribution of human activities or physical features.  2. Locate 60 ° North , 150 ° East. (Put a Star There) 3. Lines of Longitude or sometimes called ______ can be used to find degrees of East and West. a. meridians b. parallels c. lines d. poles 4. Geography is the study of _________.  a. where things are found on earths surface... b. why certain nations observe different holidays. c. map-making. d. environmental issues concerning humans. 5. The art and science of map-making is called ______. a. Glaciology b. Hydrology c. Climatology d

After working in depth with Latitude, we worked with Longitude. Both serve vital roles in determining coordinates on a map. First off lets start with a breakdown of Longitude. Longitude- "A geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on earths surface. They run in a North- South direction." though they inform about degrees East and West.  (As Seen Below). Notice how on the figure above, they label a specific point named "Greenwich". That being Greenwich Observatory based out of England which is considered the point in which Longitude is neither East or West. This point is often referred to as the Prime Meridian (Prime meaning 1 ), meaning that this Meridian (another term for lines of longitude) is at 0 °. We can also notice that it runs from the South Pole all the way to the North Pole.  After working with Longitude, we began to work with UTC.  "UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard in which