Angelina's Humans Geo Blog

First, we went over our tests in class then, we discussed the question why do people migrate, today in class. People migrate because of push and pull factors. Push factor is when people are almost forced to leave. Some examples are Civil War, Environmental Degradation, Unemployment or Underemployment, and religious or ethnic persecution. And a Pull factor is when you want to move, or when one place seems/ is better than the place you are living in now. Some examples of a pull factor are, better economic opportunity, better health services, and religious and political freedom. Another example of a pull factor is more people going to Canada. People are probably going there because it is more peaceful and because they have free health care. But the tax is higher in Canada so that could be a reason people are going to the US.

Today in class we talked more about population. A word we went over was Life Expectancy which is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. We then talked about the highest life expectancy is in Monaco, there were 89.52 people total, there were 85.63 men and 93.58 women. Then, we said the lowest population was Chad, with there being 49.81 people total, and having 48.64 men and 51.03 women. Next, we learned about measuring population, which included crude birth rate and crude death rate. The definition of crude birth rate is the number of births per 1,000 of the population, and crude death rate being the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population. We also went over the rate of natural increase (RNI), this is produced subtracting the death rate from the birth rate, and that gives the annual natural growth rate- in percentage form- for a country or region. Next, we looked up which countries had more death rates than birth rates, some of the count

In class Friday we talked about population and settlement (people on the land). I learned that there are over 7.5 billion people on the earth right now, and it is increasing by 73 million people each year by 200,000 per day. We talked about how that population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and in Latin America. We learned about infrastructure which means, the basic physical and organizational structure of faculties. Lastly, we looked at a graph and how the years elapsed of population is decreasing each year but now it is evening out. On the graph it showed how it took about 10,000 years to reach 1 billion people in the year 1804. But from 6 billion to 7 billion people it only took 12 years.

In Human Geo we took our unit 2 test. I felt good about the test because I studied everything we went over in class yesterday. I knew most of the answers. Also, I felt like I did well on my essay because I studied and remembered that too. Most of the questions on the test were easy, but I didn't know a few of them because I didn't study those questions that well. One of the questions that I think I did well on was, the one when it asked where the prime meridian ran through. I knew that it ran through Greenwich. But one of the questions I felt I didn't do well on was when it asked what the longitude and latitude lines were called. 

Today in class we went over test questions. A question we came up with was, what is the circadian cycle? we said that it was your body’s natural clock. Another question we came up with was Does the USA have an official language? The answer is no, then we learned how an official language is what people must know if they go to that country, but a primary language is a language that is mainly used in the country, but you don't have to be expected to know that language. We also came up with a question on maps, the question was, what is a cartographer? We said that it was a person who made maps. The last question we came up with was, what is the difference between region and place? The answer is a region is a larger area on earth and place is a specific point in earth. 

Today in class we went over possible test questions. We were each supposed to make up 3 questions and put them in our blog. The questions I came up with were... What are three categories that geographers can use on World Fact book?  What is the difference between the Peters map and the Mercator map? Why is culture a complex concept? The answers to all of the previous questions are, Geography, People and Society, and Economy The Peters map is more accurate in size and the Mercator map is more accurate when you are sailing and using it to get to another place. Culture is complex because it has two very different meanings. One of the meanings is "to care about..." and the second meaning is "to take care of...". 

Today in class we talked about why Mr. Schick was out of school yesterday, we talked about his dogs and other people’s dogs. Then we started to talk about what the minimum wage was in America and compared it to what it is in China. We talked about how a lot of things are made in China and that Americans want things to be made here not in other places. So, Jimmy brought up how his dad has a company named window candles and how his dad wants to make window candles be from the U.S. not from China. We learned that things are more expensive in America so that is why not many things are made directly from here, but Jimmy explained that Trump is trying to get more things to be from America so that is part of the reason why Jimmy's dad wants to move his company over to America. 

Today in class we had a sub, so we looked at the blog and wrote notes about it. In the blog I learned that geographers tend to see broad patterns at a global scale and encompassing the entire world. I learned the quote thinking globally and acting locally in more detail too. I learned that it means that he environment was being harmed by processes such as a global warming that were in global scale, but it could be improved by actions, such as consuming less gasoline, that were in local scale. I also learned that globalization means that the scale of the world is shrinking, the world is shrinking in ability of a person, object, or ides to interact with a person. I had to find two different definitions of globalization, one of the ones I found was the act of extending to all the other parts if the world. The second definition I found was worldwide integration and development. Lastly, we had to find different items and find out where they came from and the items brand name, one of the thi

Today in class we talked about Thinking globally and acting locally. We learned that the statement means that if you want to help the world then you should start off by acting locally. An example of this statement is making your own gardens. When you make your own garden then not as much trucks must be transporting fruits and vegetables to the grocery store because you would already have your own food in your backyard, and by not using the trucks we would not be using gas and that could help with pollution which could help to end global warming, even though we would have to still do more than stop pollution to end global warming. Now by acting locally you are thinking globally. We learned that at the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns.

In class today, we all looked at different countries on the Earth and we each read an interesting fact about the country we choose. To find an interesting fact about the country we must use the website called CIA: World fact book and the country I picked was Switzerland. I had learned the to become a citizen of Switzerland you have to be there for 12 years or be born there. I learned that Switzerland made this a law because they want to stay peaceful and if people try to become an immigrant they may not want to become a citizen anymore because of how long people must wait to become part of Switzerland. I also learned that Switzerland they want to stay peaceful, and if people come into Switzerland they could be illegal immigrants which could start fights with other countries.  

Today in class we looked at the top 25 countries in the world with the highest population. After we listed the top 25 we placed them on two different maps. One of the maps was called the "Mercator Projection of the World" this has the wrong longitude and latitude lines but it worked well for sailors. The other map was called the "Robison Projection of the World" map, this map had the united states placed in the middle of the world which looked very weird because that could be inferring that the United States is the most important county. The second map also could make it seem that the United States is the most populated because it could look like it is the biggest country, it looks big because this map make Russia look smaller because it splits Russia in half.

In class today we learned about cultural regions. We learned that each region on earth is distinctive, we learned that cultural regions contains of beliefs, material traits,  social forms, and small living organisms. For example Maryland is different then other states because we are the only states who has crabs and we have all 4 seasons. We learned about different types of culture too. We learned about Pop culture which is like TV shows and shows that you would binge watch on. We learned that agriculture was a term for growing materials faster or culture on a larger level. We talked about how the origin of culture is the Latin cultuse or to care for. The last thing we talked about was how religion is almost the same thing as a cult. Before Christianity was a big deal it was a cult because it was one person running a small group.

In class today, we talked about why time was different in all parts of the world. First, we learned about the Circadian Cycle, which is our bodies natural clock. In other words, our body get so used to the time we wake up and go to bed it knows when we should go to bed and when we should wake up without even using a clock. We learned about how in 1876 Fleming came up with the idea of essentially putting a clock in the center of the earth so the everyone on planet earth would have the same exact time. Not many people liked that ides so in 1879 Fleming came up with a new proposal which was to put a clock in the middle of Greenwich and that makes the time different in all parts of the world, this is the time that we use to this day. Next, we talked about why only America does day light savings, and we do it because we don't want children going to their bus stop when it is pitch black, so we pushed an hour back at the end of October, so it can be light out for the children. Lastly, we

Today in class we sorted regions in the US. We sorted the regions by seeing where they were in the U.S. and we were separating the regions by seeing if they were democratic or republican regions. Some examples of the regions are, the New England region, the Cascadia region, the Deep North region, the Louisiana region, the Florida region, and the Texas region. The states in the New England region are Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rohde Island, the Rust Belt region and Massachusetts. These states are democratic and live in cold climates. Another example for a democratic region is, the Rust Belt. This region contains Oregon, California, and Washington. These states are similar because they are all is warm places. An example of a republican region is the Deep North, the states in the Deep North are Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota. These states at located at the top of the U.S. 

Today we went learned how regions and the cultural landscape were affective to the world. Region is an area of earth defined by one or more destructive characteristics. Some examples for Maryland are the love for crabs, the love for the Ravens, etc. We also went over different types of regions, which is the designation of region that can apply to anything larger than a point and smaller than the entire planet. Several countries different features, is an example of typed of regions. The definition for cultural landscapes is, a combination of both physical and human characteristics, that uniquely defines places and areas. Some examples are, language, religion, economic, and physical.