September 16th, 2013

Students,

Today we talked about population. Particularly we discussed why we live where we live, and what it is called when those numbers shift. We talked about ESPN factors for population distribution;

E- Economic Resources (you want to live somewhere that you can provide basic needs for your family)
S- Social (people & their culture)
P- Political (trying to get away from or into new Governments)
N- and finally Nature (natural resources, water, climate, fertile soil)

We discussed Urban (city life) and rural (outside the cities, farms) life and why we have them and what each lifestyle entails. More specifically we talked about Urbanization which is simply people moving out of rural communities into  larger cities.

We also talked about the geographic tools we use to study population

Population Density - How many   people per square mile are present in a country

Population Change - Birth rate (births per 1000 members of a population per year) Vs. Death rate (deaths per 1000 members of a population per year) and how the two interact to create a change in population.

Migration- This is, put simply, the movement of people from one location to another, due to two factors. Push Factors reasons for leaving a place (no job, bad culture, etc.) and Pull factors reasons for going to a place (job opportunities, affordable housing, etc.). And finally we discussed....

Population Pyramids - This is a tool that geographers use to break down a population by age and gender, allowing us to draw conclusions based on that information. For example in the power point there is a slide with a population pyramid from Hungary in 1960. There is a huge drop off in a portion of the population age bracket of 40-44 year olds. As historians and geographers we can deduce that this was caused by World War II.

Concerns: Your tests were bad, and you should feel bad. I will   have grades in the system soon.

Pre-AP: your world map poster projects are due september 23rd

Head start: look at the United States constitution, and think about how it affects your day to day life.

Documents: http://imgur.com/a/F6jxo