More Podcast and Discussion

Today, we listened to more of the podcast that we listened to yesterday. We learned in the podcast that President Obama made it legal for immigrants to come into the country if they were victims of Domestic Violence. Metering is when you limit the number of asylum seekers into your country. Today, I had two tests as well. I did pretty well on my Intro to Bible test but not too to well on my English test. I have a Biology test on Tuesday which I think I will do well on! Biology is one of my favorite classes. We are talking about cells right now. I also need a Biology and Geography degree in order to get a degree in paleontology! Ever since I watch Jurassic Park for the first time ever, I have loved Paleontology and dinosaurs and I have always wanted to be a paleontologist.

Debate/Podcast

First of all, what is an Asylum(The Human Geo/Population kind)? An asylum is when a country or person taking someone into their protection. Right before World War two, nine hundred Jewish men, women, and children, sailed to the U.S. but were told to look someplace else. Almost all of those Jews were captured and put in concentration camps, and most were killed. After that, the U.S. was put on a guilt trip so they decided to change that and let more and more migrants into the country. Non referman means not returning people to countries that are dangerous.

More Migration!

Just for a recap, Migration, the act of moving to a different place permanently, whether it is done forcefully or willingly. International migration is when you permanently move from one country to another whether it is voluntary or forced. Internal migration is a permanent move to within the country that the person/persons are currently in, this migration is also either voluntary or forced and it is either interregional or intraregional. Approximately nine percent of the world's population are international migrants. Interregional migration is perceived as ecomic betterment typically compels individuals to make interregional moves. It is historically-enticment of abundant available land on the American Frontier. Presently, most jobs especially in services, are clustered in urban areas. The Westward expansion, in 1803, contributed to a shift in the center of population, "Center of population."

Migration

Today we started on a familiar topic to most people. Migration. First off, what is Mobility? Mobility is mostly a generalized term that refers to all types of movements. Some examples of mobility are when you travel to work or school, or weekly/daily visits to local shops/stores. Short-term and repetitive acts of mobility are referred to a circulation. A permanent move to a new location constitutes migration, which I don't necessarily understand because birds migrate up north for the summer and then down south for the winter. In the Powerpoint, it says that migration is when you move somewhere permanently. But birds migrate to new places every single year. Anyways, the difference between the number of immigrants and number of emigrants is a places net migration. Ravenstein's law states  that most migrants will relocate a short distance and remain within the same country or the long-distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity so they can get a job and start earning some money.

Eazzzzzy Pop Quiz

Human Geography, first class o' the day! Feelin gooooooood. Pop Quiz too, I'm also feeling good about that as well. We basically went over it in the beginning of the class as well soooo... yee. I remember the first question asked, what was the coarse that the speaker taught, and the answer was, Global Health. In the video that we watched on Friday, which was made in 2010, the guy made a chart that showed the different stages of a country out of five. Stage one being a high birthrate and high deathrate. And stage five being a slow birthrate and a slow deathrate, this shows that this is an aged country. Overall, I think that this pop quiz that we literally just had like ten or so minutes ago, was really easy. I started this in your class and now I'm finishing it it in my patriot transitions class because Mr. Ireton is letting us have sort of a freeish mod to do our homework and be productive, like I am being now. For my Thanksgiving break, my family goes to one of the families houses to celebrate and eat and just have a good time. Anyways, I hope you (Mr. Schick) have a great Thanksgiving holiday and break.

Population Density

Density can be computed in up to three different ways for a place. People look at Arithmetic density. You get that when you divide the population by the land area. Physiological Density is the number of people supported by a unit of arable/farm-able land. You get this by dividing the population by the arable land area. Agricultural Density is the Ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. You get this by dividing the population of farmers by the arable land area. Geographers measure population change in a country or the world as a whole by using these three measures, Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, and the Rate of Natural Increase.

Population Concentrations

The day after the test and I feel pretty confident. I have had eight tests this week and I only have seven classes. Anyways, you started making us take notes again, it feels like it has been a while since we've taken notes. We are now getting into Population Concentrations. Your PowerPoint presentation, made by an expert, told us that two thirds of the world’s population is centered in East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, and Europe. That is 5083658666.67 people clustered in those four areas. Humans usually have avoided four different kinds of lands because of the physical features. These features are Dry Lands- People can't farm any crops to eat and there will not be a lot of foo, Wet Lands- The humidity and people don't want their buildings to sink into the mud, Cold Lands- To cold to survive and cannot harvest a lot of crops, High Lands- Not enough oxygen and to rocky to have arable land.

Test Day, Again

We had a test today. We could use the CIA world fact-book, but only for the first page and only for fifteen minutes. that part was pretty easy, I don't think I couldn't find anything. And I think I only used ten or so of the fifteen minutes that were given. Your test than asked us to match different words with definitions or whats ye macall its. Than after more questions similar to matching, I guess, it asked questions on the three population pyramids that were in the slides that we went over. Than on the back, for the extra credit, I had no idea what the last one was but for the what is the world migration rate, I put none because unless there are aliens living on earth, than there would be a migration rate of earth. But now that I think about that, I probably answered something that the question wasn't asking. Then for the cartoon you told us to draw, I put the class saying that how the x-mas tree pyramid doesn't look like an x-mas tree...

Review For The Test

In class today, we reviewed for our test that will be, not tomorrow, but Thursday. We do not have your class tomorrow, November the 7th, so, this is the solution. today, you gave us a topic in the CIA World Fact-Book, and we had to find it using the website itself. Some of those questions were, "what is the death rate in Afghanistan?" and, " what is the infant mortality in Cuba?" You than told us to shut our computers and asked us more questions like, "How do you find the average rate of increase in a nation?" The answer to that would be to subtract birth rate from death rate. If you get a positive number, the population is increasing. And if you get a negative number, The population would be decreasing. Than you asked questions on population graphs like, "what are the three main shapes of a population pyramid?"

More Population Pyramids

Today we talked about population pyramids... some more. All we did was look at different graphs and compare them with each other and say why we think that certain towns have more population in different age groups or sex groups. I don't have anything else to talk about soooo... yea. In my biology class, we worked on a review sheet for a test that I feel confident I will pass. I had an off mod and so I worked on my music playlist. I put more "Seether" and "Five Finger Death Punch" songs. I had an English quiz on verbs that I feel confidentish on. After lunch I had Intro to  bible, then your class, then german.