population studies: defining our terms

today in class we looked up rates of different countries. The facts are on joes blog.

9/29/10

Today in class we took a test.

Things on Test

Saudi Arabia oil

Arable land is scarce

Iran is making nukes hit Israel

Christianity, Islam, Judaism

Islam is huge in the Middle East

Islam 5 pillars

Judaism leaders are rabbi, imam is religious leaders, priests are christen leaders

9/11: Was Osama bin laden that attacked us on 9/11 extremist Islamic group.

3 Religions

Christianity:

Jerusalem is the holy city for Christianity. The leader of the Catholic Church is the Pope. Christians  worship in a church. Have priests

                                                                                                                                                    

Judaism:

Abraham is the father of the Jewish religion.  3500 year old religion. Monotheistic.  14 million Jews worldwide.  Have rabis

Islam:

Mecca is their holy city. Their holy book is the Qu’ran.   The 5 pillars. They have daily prayers. Giving alms. Fasting during Ramadan. They have to go to mecca. Testimony of faith. Forbid abortion. Have imam. 

9/23/10

Today in class we worked on our prezi. I learned more about Christanity, Islam, and Judaism.

Prezi

htpp://prezi.com/jq5rjsk4kc5g/christanity-jewdism-and-islam/

our prezi.

9/22/10

Today in class we searched about different religions in the middle east. They are Christanity, Judiaism, Islam.

classs today

Today in class we recived information about these:

Israel:

97% literacy rate, religions 75% Jewish, Hebrew is the official language.

Iraqi:

Literacy rate is 84.1%, women are 65%, Muslim is the official religion, and USA was in war with them for a long time.

Egypt:

Their population is over 78million, rank 16 in the world, literacy rate for men are 83% for men and 78% for women, and their infant mortality is 81 in the world, 90% of their religion is Muslim, they have compulsory service, their republic, their unemployment rate is 9.7%.

9/17

Today in class we used the CIA factbook to search a Middle Eastern countries. The country my group looked up was Iran.

Class work today 9/17

Saudi Arabia:

100% Muslim, men 84.7%, female 70% literacy rate, life expect for male and female 74%. 11.57% die before they turn 1. Oil production is 2 in the world, exports is 1. Unemployment rate 11.7%.

9/16/10

Today in class we worked on answering questions about what countries were on each continent. I thought it was a good thing to learn.

Identifying Countries

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

Class Today

Today in class we went on CIA.gov and learmed how to use the website. We were asked questions and we had to answer them by using the website.

9/11

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1dXcaHXawceyk24pHHP9XTkeI6CKNuxe_xACX_QvPnvY

Class today

today we worked on our essays on 9/11

end of week one

Geography: the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the eatth's surface.
Globlalization: to extend to other parts of the world, or to make world wide.
Popluaion: the total number of people in an area.
Immigration: the movement of non-native people moving to somewhere they are not from
Industrialization: to intruduce industry to an area
Culture: the ulaty of a person or soceity that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts.
Religion: a set of beliefs concerning the causes, nature, and purpose of the universe.

World population: 6,768,181,146

Five largest population countries:
China: 1,338,621,968
Indina: 1,156,897,7666
United States: 307,212,123
Indonesia: 240,271,522
Brazil: 191,739,269

Five Largest religions:
1: Christiantianity
2: Islam
3: Secular/Agnostic/Athesist
4: Hinduism
5: Chinese traditional religion


http://www.dictionary.com/
http://www.wikianseres.com/
http://www.cia.gov/

Movie blog

I thought it was weird that India has more honor students then America has kids. That is also scary because they can get better jobs. I thought it was crazy that facebook took two years to reach 50million users. I thought it was cool that the ipod took three years to reach 50million buyers.