Today in human geography class we took a lot of notes. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. You measure population by crude birth rate and crude death rate. Crude birth rate is the number of births per 1,000 of the population, and crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population. The rate of natural increase is produced by the difference of the death rate and birth rate, and it gives us the annual natural growth rate for a country or region. The net migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year.
Human Geography Class Today in human geography class we talked about maps. The main map almost every school uses is a Mercator map. Mr. Schick showed us a video from a tv show that used to air a couple years ago. The clip we watched was about a group of people that were having a discussion with the president on changing the maps that almost every school uses. They showed the president how inaccurate the Mercator map was. It showed Africa as a small continent, when really it is much larger, and it makes the United States much larger looking than it really is. The group proposed the idea and came up with a solution to the problem. They wanted to replace the maps with a new, more accurate map called the gall-peters map. After the video, Mr. Schick continued to le...
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