Today I took the test on religion and did not do good. This was the lowest test score I've gotten since forever but I learned to study more. But in class besides that, we basically did nothing besides review the test and talk about football. I wished I studied more but it's my fault even though I missed the lesson on it, I shoved taught myself more about Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddism.

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Test day

Today we just took our test on the whole unit of population. I think I did pretty well may even have got a one hundred. At the beginning of class until 10:25 Mr. SChick let us study a bit more I looked at things like when the population hit 1,000,000,000 for the first time and there was a question on the test exactly like that. Near the middle towards the end of the test, there were population pyramid questions which at first I wasn't very sure about then I looked up and saw that the test had the population of each pyramid and that helped me out a lot. Overall I feel as if I was very prepared for this test and i think I got near 100 percent.

Today we basically did the same thing as yesterday, study for our up and coming test on Monday, November 18. The only thing we did different today is that we watched the video on population pyramids. Then Mr. Schick hinted to some more questions like if we are looking at a population pyramid of Niger do we think that the population is increasing or decreasing. Or like to remember that they always put males on the left and females on the right. And the last one is that usually in most countries females live longer than males, typically because males do more dangerous jobs in certain countries like going to war.

Today we were noticed that we will have a test on Monday about our whole unit. Even though we already took a test and had a group project on this unit. We were hinted at some of the questions that could be on the test. The test will cover things about population and how to read a population pyramid. Also certain facts like that you have to have a TFR (Total Fertility Rate) on 2.1 to keep your population the same. Or facts like what is the total population of the world which is 7.6 billion

Today is the day after our presentation. I think i did pretty good on our presentation. Our topic was on Germany. And my section was on not just a certain fact but overall on their economy and their economic problems. Their main problem is their debt. They have the fourth-highest debt in the world. They get most of their debt from their federal government. But there is a good side to their economy. They have a pretty low poverty line of 16.7. The poverty line is the percent of people in poverty. The only issue I had was that I was looking at the board and that I could've had a little more on my slide.

Today we presented our project on Germany. Overall I thought we did ok as a group. We were missing one slide on accident. My slide wasn't just one stat it was multiple stats on Germany like their GDP per capita, debt, labor force, and the poverty line. When it was my turn to present I think I explained my topic pretty decant. Then when Mr. Schick started to ask me questions and in my opinion, I responded good to the questions. Overall I did pretty well, the one thing I could've had better was more items on my slide.

Today in class we started our group project. Our project is to be given a country and find interesting facts about it on the CIA world factbook. In my group, there is Jay, Rachel, Logan, Tori, and I. We were given the county Germany, its kind of funny that we got Germany because when my Uncle worked for the government he lived there for at least 5 years but I'm not sure. But anyways my part of the project was the economy of Germany. Did you even know that Germany had a financial crisis in 2008 and they are in over 5 billion dollars in debt? Also, their GDP per capita is 27th in the world at 50,800 dollars.

Today in class we were notified by an up and coming pop quiz. He asked us 37 questions that were about population but they were also on his final exam from a few years ago. I think on the next pop quiz I will do well because I knew most of the answers to the questions. One of the questions they asked was, was what countries have the highest growing population and the answer was a developing country. Another one was out of Japan, the United States, Niger, and Mexico who has the lowest birth rate. The answer was Japan, it makes sense because much of their population is past the age where they can reproduce.

Yesterday in class we got five facts about five different countries. My five facts were in China, the Central African Republic, Russia. South Sudan, and Japan. Fr5om these facts I learned that industrialization is a very key role in a countries success or not. I also realized that a countries population is important as well.

1. China = 1,384,688,986 India = 1,296,834,042
2. The total fertility rate of japan in 1.42 per thousand women.
3. The death rate of El Salvador is 5.8 deaths/1,000 population
4. The percentage of France that identify as no religion is 23-28% because the government does not collect that information anymore
5. 82.7 percent of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman catholic.
6. The United States GDP per capita (PPP) is 59,800
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My first fact is about how China has an urban population of 60.3. This means they have 834,967,458 people that live in urban areas. what's interesting is that, that more than half of their population. Usually, in urban areas, there are more factories. Since they have more factories they have more industrialization. In the video we watched we noticed that the more industrialization there is usually the people there are more healthy and rich.

The second fact is how Central African Republics GDP per capita is only 700 dollars. This GDP is tied for the lowest in the world with Burundi. This relates to the research we were doing the other day because we noticed on the graph that the less money you have the worst your health probably is and that they are a South African nation.

My next fact on Russia population. Russias population is 142,122,776. This is surprising because Russia is a much bigger country than the U.S yet our population is more than double theirs. This relates to the video because Russia has a lot of land and they would be much better off if they had more industrialization.

My fourth fact is in South Sudan. Soth Sudan had the highest death rate in the world at 19.30 per 1000 people. This being another South African nation they are at a bad start already with civil war and a bad economy.

My last fact is on Japan and how 28.38 of their population is 65 or over. sense more than a quarter of their population is over 65 we can tell that they have good health. Since they have good health they are most likely wealthy because to have good health you need money. This high age population also lets us know that their population is going to go down a lot in the next up and coming years.