Aiden's Western Civ Blog

Today we had a shorter class because it is our last class before exams. We reviewed the exam questions: Essay Questions: Essay 1: The population pyramids below represent two countries at different stages of the demographic transition and economic development. Explain the demographic characteristics if each country below with respect to the demographic transition model Describe problems the countries may have if the population pyramids stay the same Describe possible solutions each country's population concerns Essay 2: Globalization can be understood as the increasing connections of different parts and peoples around the world. Globalization results in the expansion of international cultural, economic and political activities. As people, ideas, knowledge and  Define globalization Discuss the historical process of globalization and describe why the process has accelerated in recent years Why do some people view the process as negative What do you thi...

Today in class we didn't do much besides a tiny bit of review at the end of class because we were too busy celebrating Mr. Schick's birthday (behold one of the few times I'm not being sarcastic). It was a very fun time and probably one of my favorite classes of the entire year. We had cookies, cake, music and just goofed off. I hope Mr. Schick has a wonderful birthday. 👍👍👍

Human Geo Semester 1 Exam Questions Q1: What is human geography? Q2: What does human geography focus on? Q3: What is a map? Q4: What is a time zone? Q5: What is the geographic grid? Q6: What does GPS stand for? Q7:  What is the difference between site and situation? Q8: What is a region? Q9: Define Globalization. Q10: What are meridians and parallels? Q11: What is the line 180 degrees East or West Longitude called?   Q12: Why is each point on Earth unique? Q13: What is the name given to each place on Earth? Q14: What is diffusion when talking about human geography? Q15:  After which war was A Message to Garcia written? Q16: Who wrote A Message to Garcia? Q17: Which U.S. President had a message to be sent to Garcia in the first place? Q18: Who was asked to deliver the message to Garcia? Q19: When was A Message to Garcia written? Q20: What is someone who takes notes in shorthand called? Q21: How did S...

Today in class we reviewed for the exam. Well, not really. What we actually did was goof off for the first 20 or so minutes of class and sorta talked about the exams. Some genuinely important were asked. Like what room we are in and how many questions are on the test. Hopefully I do very well on it. He said there are 2 essays we have to do. He will give us the first on Friday and the with the other one he will give us 4 choices and we will have to write up on one.

Today when class started Mr. Schick randomly left the class for 5 minutes and confused everyone. Then we looked at the demographic map of the world. It can be used the same way as a population pyramid except it can show more information at once.