Population for Countries and Defintions

• life expectancy: Definition - the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individualor class of persons determined statistically, affected by suchfactors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation. click here for link to life expectancy (Japan: Male - 82.12yrs  , France: 80.98yrs, Kenya: 57.86yrs, Cuba: 77.45yrs, United States: 78.11yrs, Afghanistan: 44.40yrs)  
• crude birthrate: Definition - This entry gives the average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 persons in the population at midyear. link here for crude birth rate definition (Japan: 7.64 births/1000 pop. , Kenya: 36.64 births/1000 pop. , Ethiopia: 43.66 births/1000 pop. , United States: 13.83 births/1000 pop. ,Germany: 8.98/1000pop.)
• crude death rate: Definition - This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear.click here for definition of crude death rate   (Afghanistan: 17.83 deaths/1,000 population , Kenya: 9.72 deaths/1000 pop. , United States: 8.38 deaths/1000 pop. , Japan: 9.54 deaths/1000 pop. , Mexico: 4.8 deaths/1000 pop.)
• RNI (rate of natural increase) Definition - the amount of people being born compared to the amount of people dying
• TFR (total fertility rate): Definition -  This entry gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman. click here for definition of total fertility rate  (Niger: 7.68 children born/woman , Afghanistan: 5.5 children born/woman , Japan: 1.2 children, United States: 2.06 children, Germany: 1.42 children born/woman )
• net migration rate: Definition - This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons. click here for net migration rate definition   (Mexico: -3.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population , United States: 4.32 migrant(s)/1,000 population , United Arab Emirates: 22.98 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Argentina: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Saudi Arabia: -7.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Uganda: -8.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population ) 
• population pyramid: Definition - a pyramid-shaped diagram illustrating the age distribution of apopulation: the youngest are represented by a rectangle at thebase, the oldest by one at the apex definition link to population pyramid

9/29

Today in class we took a test and I think I did well on it.

9/27

Today in class we took notes on what will be on our test on Wednesday.

Study Guide for Questions

• Religion for Countries
• The five countries that we studied have a valuable  good of oil.
• Not much land to grow crops in the 5 countries.
• Iran can make nuclear weapons and if they are able to make a nuclear bomb they would probably drop it on Isreal. 
• Know info about the 3 religions we studied.
• Know some info on 9/11 like what country and group caused it.

9/24

Today in class we presented our prezis about Christianity, Islamic, and Judaism religions and took notes on it.

Religion Notes

Jerusalem is the Holy City for Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish religions
Abraham is the father of the Jewish Religion
Judaism is 3500 years old
Jews are Monotheistic
Mecca is Islamic religion's holy city

Prezi Address

Religions of the world on Prezi

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam on Prezi

Comparing Religions on Prezi

Religion on Prezi

9/23

We finished our first Prezi.

9/22

Today in class we started looking at different religions and we looked at prezi.

9/20

Today we finished talking about the different countries.

Middle East Countrys

Iran: Areable land - 9.78
Unemployment rate - 11.8 percent
Military Service - At age 19 you must serve/At the age of 15 and 16 you are alowed to volonteer
Life Expectence - Male 69.65 percent/Female - 72.72 percent
Oil production -  Imports 4.72 mil barrels/Export 2.21 mil barrels
Has Been designated the sponsored terrorism state
We dont trade with them
Have nuclear weapon ambisions

Saudi Arabia: Areable Land - 2 percent
 Religion -100 percent Muslim
Literacy Rate - Male - 84.7 percent/Female - 70.8 percent
Most Valuable Good - Oil

Iraq:Literacy Rate - Man - 84 percent/Women - 64 percent
GDP - 110.1 billion (World Rank: 158 )
Main Religion - Muslim (98 percent)
We are in an current war with them
1990 they tried to take over Kuaite

Israel: Literacy Rate - Male - 98 percent/Female - 95 percent
Religion - Jewish, Christian, Muslim
Language - Hebrew
Life - 80.73years
Focus of a lot of conflict in the middle east

Egypt: Population - 78 million (World Rank: 16)
Areable Land - Less than 3 percent
Literacy Rate - Man - 83 percent/Women - 71 percent
Infant Mortality Rate - 27/1000
90 percent of Population is Muslim
Military Service - 18 to 36 years (Has compulsery service)
Government - Republic
Main Language - Arabic
Unemployment Rate - 9.4 percent

9/17/10

Today in class we worked with the CIA factbook.

9/16/10

Today in class we did an assignment on idententifying the regions of the world.

Identifying Countries

1.  United States - North America
2.  France - Europe
3.  Iraq - Asia
4.  China - Aisa
5.  Saudi Arabia - Aisa
6.  Haiti - North America
7.  India - Aisa
8.  Japan - Aisa
9.  Venezuela - North America
10. Iran - Aisa
11. Russia - Aisa
12. The United Kingdom - Europe
13. Israel - Aisa
14. Germany - Europe
15. Tibet - Aisa
16. Afghanistan - Aisa
17. Brazil - South America
18. North Korea - Aisa
19. Egypt - Africa
20. Kenya - Africa
21. Pakistan - Aisa
22. Vietnam - Aisa
23. Mexico - North America
24. Cuba - North America

http://www.movingplanets.com/world/continents/

https://www.cia.gov/search?q=Tibet&site=CIA&output=xml_no_dtd&client=CIA&myAction=%2Fsearch&proxystylesheet=CIA&submitMethod=get&x=1&y=13

What We did in Class 9/15

We learned how useful the CIA factbook can be and how to use it.

9/13/10

Today in class we did our paper and discussed how to cite sources.

9/11 Project

https://docs1.google.com/document/edit?id=1H6HlPLUkWk0TxOBohcEzp0OEGnUs5VVhrDNK_zsfBXM&hl=en&pli=1#

Geography - The science dealing with the areal differentation of the earths surface as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrilations over the world of elements such as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
Globalization - to extend to the other or all parts of the globe
Population - the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district of area
Immigration - people moving from one country to another
Industrialization - to introduce industry into an area on a large scale
Culture - The quality in a person or society that arrises from concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholary pursuits, etc.
Religion - the specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed apon by a number of persons of sects


Population of World - 6,768,181,146

Five Largest Religions in the World - 1.Christianity  2.Muslims  3.Hindus  4.Buddists  5.Sikhs

Five Largest Countries in the World - 1.China - 1,338,612,968  2.India - 1,156,897,766  3. United States - 307,212,123  4.Indonesia - 240,271,522  5.Brazil - 198,739,269
Sources: Dictionary.com , CIA - The World  Factbook

Did You Know

That if Face book was a country it would be the third largest in the world. Which I found that  was very interesting because that means it would be just under India. What was also interesting was that it took Facebook only 2 years to get 50 million accounts on it but it took radio 38 years to get 50 listeners. Which means technology controls our world.