Thursday, September 30, 2010

life expectancy- the expectated number of years of life remaining at a given age
japan- total population: 82.12 years country comparison to the world: 3  male: 78.8 years  female: 85.62
france- total population: 80.98 yearscountry comparison to the world: 8 male: 77.79 years female: 84.33
kenya- total population: 57.86 years country comparison to the world: 189  male: 57.49 years female:58.24
cuba- total population: 77.45 years country comparison to the world: 55  male: 75.19 years female: 79.85
united states- 78.11 years
afghanistan-44.3 years


crude birthrate-  is the nativity or childbirths per 1,000 people per year (in estimation review points).
japan- 7.64 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 222
kenya- 36.64 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 29
ethiopia-43.66 births
united states- 13.83 births
germany- 8.18 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 220

crude death rate- the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people
Afghanistan- 17.83
 Kenya- 9.72 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 67
japan-
 United States-8.38
 Japan-  9.54 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)country comparison to the world: 69Mexico- 4.8
RNI (rate of natural increase)- is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population


TFR (total fertility rate)- the number of kids that is born into 1 woman
divided (usually) per 1,000 inhabitants (considered on midterm population
Niger- 7.68 children born/woman (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 1
 Afghanistan- 5.5 children born/woman (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 13
 Japan- 1.2 children born/woman (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 218
 United States- 2.06 children born/woman (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 126
 Germany- 1.42 children born/woman (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 196
to keep the same amount of people in this country the TFR has to be 2.1


net migration rate- is the difference of immigrants and emigrants of an area in a period of time, divided (usually) per 1,000 inhabitants (considered on midterm population


population pyramid-  also called an age structure diagram, is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which normally forms the shape of a pyramid.

RNI( rate of ntural increase) birthrate minus deathrate.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

test day

we took a test today about 9/11 and the middle east. it was kinda hard i hope i got at least a B.  ut we got candy after we finished so it wasnt all bad

Monday, September 27, 2010

test notes

today in class we went over important things that are going to appear on the test. like how most middle east countries have little arable land and depend on oil to bring all of thier money in.saudi araia is 1st in the world in exports and 2nd in production. and iran wants to build nuclear weapons to destroy isreal

Friday, September 24, 2010

major religions

Christanity- 2.1 billion people practice it, based of life of jesus which is the son of god, holy city is Jerusalim, leader of the catholic church is the pope, believe in the trinity father son and holy spirit,

Judaism- holy city is Jerusalim, 14 million jews world wide, oldest religion, 3 branches of abbraham


Islam- 5 pillars  1. they have to do daily prayer   2. giving Alms    3. fasting during ramadan   4. they have to go to Mecca     5. testonmony of faith,  thier holy city is Mecca, the holy book is the Qur'an, 1.5 billion followers, the muslim preacher is called a Imam

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

begging our prezi

today in class we partnered up and started a prezi on the 3 major religions in the world, christananity, judaism, and islamic. so far its fun cant wait to continue tomorrow

Monday, September 20, 2010

middle east research

today we finished our research on middle east countries like iran, iraq, saudi arabia, and egypt. they all seem to rely on oil for their money or else the would be poor countries.
saudi arabia-100% muslim    men 15% more literacy rate then woman     at least 18 to surve in military             life expectancy 74 years for males 78 years for females       infant mortalitly rate 11.57 out of 1000                  oil 2nd most in production and 1st in exports in the world             unemployment rate 11.7 %

iran-arable land 9.78%   permenent crops 1.29%        unemployment rate 11.8%      military service at 19 you have to join       life expanctancy males 69.65   woman 72.72       66 million population     oil production import  4th in the world    state sponsered terrorists

isreal- literacy rate 15 or older 97.1% of total population   religion 75.5% jewish 16.8% muslim 2.1% christian  
       life expanctancy 80.70 years   infant mortaltiy 4.22 out off 1000      focus of main problems in middle east

iraq- literacy rate 84.1% men    64.2% woman     gdp per capita 158th in the world     they attempted to take qu-at because of the oil in 1990

eygpt-population 78 million  16th in the world    less than 3% arable land      literacy rate for men 83%   71% for women       infant mortality 27 per 1000  81st in the world     90 % is muslim  compulsery military service  
government is republic     language is arabic but english and french is widely known     9.4% unemployment rate

Sunday, September 19, 2010

first blog and middle east countries

today in class we researched countries in the middle east using ciafactbook.com. my country that i researched was saudi arabia. i learned that saudi arabia is the 2nd most in the world producing oil and 1st in exporting it. if it wasnt for oil this country would be broke.