Griffin's Geo Blog

Today in class we completed a quiz on the five major religions in the world which are Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. I am disappointed in myself a I honestly forgot that we had a quiz in this class today so I came in unprepared. Mr. Schick gave us about 10 minutes for us study before he gave us the quiz. I feel like this helped partly but I still felt unprepared. I feel like I got around a 80 on this as they were multiple question that I did not know the answers to. Next time I need to make sure that I come to class prepared and remember that we have a quiz that day then I will do better.

Today in class we had a pretty interesting and fun class. First of Mr.Schick told us about his favorite parts of filming movies. He told us about the helicopter incident in which the helicopter crashed into his car and he almost got severely injured. Then Sam let us use here quizlet to help us study for the quiz. We spent a good part of class completing the quizlet with mr.schick going through it with us. Then, Mr. Schick told us about Mcauley Kulkin, the boy in Home Alone. He told us about he was his special assistant and then he gave him a valentine. Today's class was very interesting and I like hearing about his movie career

Today in class we learned about the five major world religions. They are, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, these five world religions make up a good bit of the worlds population. We had to take notes on the religions like how many people adhere to it. Who is their founder, and much more. Tomorrow we are going to use the CIA World Factbook to try and find out more about these religions. We will have a short 20 question quiz in this topic on Monday and I feel like I will do a good job on it as I payed attention and took good notes.

Today in class got our tests back, before class I knew that I got a 98 based off of what Veracross said. This made me very happy as I am very proud of that grade. In class, we went over the test for pretty much the whole time. Each person was selected to answer each question going down the line of people in desk order and test question order. The only question that I got wrong on the test was about in which region of the world the population might be decreasing. I said Eastern Asia with thinking about Japan and China and all those countries. But, it ended up being Europe as they have many countries that will have population decreasing over the years to come.

Today in class we took the test on population, migration, ad population pyramids. I thought that the test was pretty easy and I feel pretty confident about how I did on it. Not many problems tripped me up, as a matter of fact, I don't think I had many problems on any questions. I am assuming that I am still going to get a few questions wrong just based off of my luck but I cannot recall any ones that i thought that I got wrong. The 10 minutes that Mr.Schick gave to us at the beginning of class really helped to be able to recall what the test was on since I forgot that we had it today. Overall, I feel pretty confident about today's test and I am expecting an A.

Today in class we listened to the last presentation on our solution projects. The group did Italy and Tanzania. For Italy they explained how some of their wealth and GDP comes from underground economies. Underground economies is money that cannot be taxed on because the government does not know about it because the transactions are not legal. Their reasoning for Tanzania was very interesting in my opinion. The reasoning that they gave was that the drinking water in the country is not very plentiful and can be sparse at times. We then looked at how the top city in Tanzania which was Dar es Salaam. Mr. Schick then showed us pictures on the city and it matched up pretty similarly to some European and Asian cities.

In class today we presented our project on Vietnam and Japan. I feel that it went pretty smoothly. I presented the title slide. I gave a general overview of why we chose Japan and Vietnam. Japan was chosen because the population has been steadily declining for many years as the average age for the population is increasing steadily. We chose Vietnam because they have been recovering from the Vietnam war for many years. The country is getting closer to becoming a post-industrialized. I think that this project went well and I enjoy doing this type of project. I enjoy being able to socialize with people on certain topics.

Today in class we continued on our project of choosing developing and post-industrialized countries. The developing country that we picked was Vietnam. Although it is not completely developed it is trending in the correct direction. The post-industrialized country that we chose as Japan. We chose this country because their population has been steadily decreasing for many years. And if this trend continues then the country will be in severe trouble. My job in the group is to give a general overview of why we picked the countries and what the terms developing and post-industrialized mean. I think that this will be a successful group object.

Today in class we started our group project on how to make one post-industrialized country better and one developing country better. Our group chose Japan as our post-industrialized country and Vietnam as our developing country. I think it was pretty cool how the groups were chosen. Through a fantasy draft like style. I like my group because it has god people who work well together. The problem with Japan is the population is declining at a pretty rapid pace. And the problem with Vietnam ks that thye have an unstable economy that is not able to function very well. Overall, I really enjoy these types of projects and I look forward to doing more in the future.

Today in class Mr. Schick told us that he planned on giving us a pop quiz but instead we were just going to review some stuff that would have been on the pop quiz. Some of the things that we reviewed were net migration rate, total fertility rate, crude birth rate, oil imports, and many more. This took up most of the class. Mr, Schick also went on for a while about how he used to have write papers and how long it would take him versus what we are able to use now. I feel that i have a very good understanding of these terms and that I would be able to translate the answers well on a test. Today was a good class and I am looking forward to tomorrow's class.

1. The median age on the world is 30.6 years. This fact shows that the population of the world is filled with a lot of people that are young in age. With this fact you can conclude that the world's population will rise within this generation 2. 91.1 percent of people have access to drinking water. This fact surprises me because this means that almost 10 percent of the world don't have access to drinking water. Water is very essential to human life as well 3. 17,500 dollars in GDP per capita. This fact is important because to us and other well developed countries this does not seem like much at all. But in some cases this what people live on and support their families. 4. 43.57 million barrels of crude oil exports per day. This fact shows just how the world and mostly developed countries depend on oil from the ground. If this rate continues we will run out at some point. 5. 2.14 percent of the world's GDP go towards military expenditures. This shows in perspective co