Holly Human Geography

Today in human geography class, we got our final scores on our test for the 1st quarter of high school. I was disappointed i found that my grade was not where I wanted it to be. However, we went over the answers, and now I know what my mistakes were, and hope this prepares me for the 1st semester test in this class. We also were able to talk more on the topic of immigration and population. I don't know much about it yet because of other things that have been getting in the way of our learning so far, so I can't say much. So tune into more blogs to come! I am looking forward to learning more to share with you.

Today in human geography class we looked at our test scores so far for the last test of the first quarter. I'm not impressed with my score so far and hope that my essay answers will help bump the score up.This test will most likely bring me down to a B so I will not have all A's this quarter which sucks. As much as I like this class, I'm glad I get to get out of some classes because I am a part of the Grease play this year. We will be having a preview on Thursday and shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is my first play and I am loving it so much! It's also going to be really good, I can already tell. So if you can come, you definitely should! Any way back to class, I enjoy these discussions on immigration and the different population around the world, and look forward to more discussions and theories.

Today in Human Geography class, we discussed population and settlement. How we discussed this was from an online site that showed the average number of people in the world being birthed and who were dying that day. The first time I saw the data of this average I was at a field trip in sixth grade. The reason I remember this is because I thought it was so cool how the numbers were changing so quickly. I was less educated then, and now know that it wasn't completely accurate. People weren't behind computers collecting data on the exact number of people entering and exiting. So after seeing how many people were in the world, and how it keeps accelerating, what do we do when the earth cannot hold anymore people? PURGE?!?! That would suck. But I'm not sure and I guess I'll never know. We will all probably be really old or dead people by then...:( This was today's class, looking forward for more discussion

Today in this class we took a test. I don't think I did bad...I hope I didn't. There's not much to say for this blog so I'm going to talk about the test questions. They weren't too bad, but some didn't seem like we talked about them enough or put them in the study guide for the test. For example, I still don't know what degrees the Prime Meridian is located at. Also it's weird how different teachers form their test questions. Most people know that when you are taking a test, the bubbled answers are most likely not going to be in a row. But when I took this test, I know that about three of my answers were definitely right, and they were all like C's. It's just kind of tricky. But Mr. Schick would do something like that. I mean he gives us pop quiz's all the time. Why wouldn't he want to trick us and make our brains go crazy, right? Anyway, there still isn't much to talk about, so here is how I feel today's class went.

Today in human geography class, we discussed questions that we wrote on our blog last night, and decided whether they were good enough to be a question asked on the test. After this we took pictures of the list that was on Mr. Schick's board. These are going to be the test questions according to him. In all honesty, when I heard we were having a quiz the last few days of the quarter, I was confused. What was the test going to be one? Had we learned enough to be having a test? This probably sounds bad to you, but I was not the only one thinking this. I'd also like to mention again that at this moment, I have 89% in four different classes. This class is not one of them. I have an A in this class, and would like to keep it that way. Just my luck. A test in a class, I don't even need one in. If we were having tests in the classes I need, I would't be complaining. Unfortunately that is not the case:( However, i still plan to do well on your test, so i don't lower my grad

1. Why is it important to know the time zones of the Earth? When traveling to a different state or country, you will need to know what time of day it is. Did you gain or lose hours? 2. Name one fact you learned about a certain country based on the CIA website we looked at in class. 3. How do the Peter and Mercator maps differ? Why are these maps different? Peter is the correct map according to size. Many notice that some of the countries on the Mercator map are not mapped according to the right size. Greenland is way off compared to it's original size. 4. Circadian Cycle?    Your body's natural and biological clock 5. Why is it important for geographers to research the culture of a region? 6. Who proposed one standard constant time for the whole world?      Sandford Fleming 7. What is our official language?     none 8. Primary language?     English about 80% 9. What is a cartographer?      map maker

For today's blog I'd like to start out by saying Mr. Schick, I'm sorry to hear about the recent loss of your dog. I'm not a dog lover, but it sucks to lose things that are a big part of you and your family. But it's not that I just don't like dogs. To me they smell bad, jump all over you, and I am very allergic. To me they just aren't a  big part of my life like they are to you. I also found it strange that you have had like three stray dogs just come to your door step. Something about you must be very inviting for them. Aside from dogs, we also talked about Jimmy's dad's window candle company. Will Jimmy take over the very successful business? Or be a failure in his dad's eyes? Ahhaahahah totally joking Jimmy! But still sounds like an interesting job. What is also interesting is how he is a big part of this company, but it's not even in the U.S. The candles are being made in China, and shipped here. Why can't we make them? This is how cl

For today's human geography blog, I'm not sure where I'm gonna go with this paragraph because we didn't do much to talk about. Mr. Schick was absent, we had a sub, and were assigned a blog to do in class on "Thinking globally, and acting locally," as explained in the last discussion. So instead I'm gonna talk about how the class went. First I was confused on whether or not we were on school lock down, because not long before this class it was spreading through the school that there was a shooting. Speaking of shootings, what's with all of them lately. I feel like 2017 has been the year of hurricanes and shootings.It makes me upset because there is nothing we can really do about it but pray. Obviously that doesn't seem to be working well, because these awful events just keep happening. After I thought of this, many brought up the crazy accident at the Celtics basket ball game that occurred recently. Let's just say really messed up foot...but any

Notes... -Years ago some came up with the saying "Think global, act local." This was because people started seeing problems with global warming that they thought could be helped globally if everyone started helping out, such as consuming less gasoline. - Globalization: A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope. This means that the size of the world is shrinking in the ability of a person, object, or idea in another place. - Not everyone looks or cares for where their personal items comes from, so we don't really know. The things I use most at home are food and clothes. Our food is shipped all around the world so there isn't much I can say specifically, and clothes usually come from China or somewhere like Vietnam. Globalization examples...  -Globalization is how countries are coming together as one big total economy - The process in which people, ideas, and goods spread throughout the world. SPERRY

Today's class was one of the most interesting ones we've had so far. Today's discussion focused mainly around what thinking globally and acting locally means. What do they mean? An example used in class today was farming. If everyone starting farming for their fruits and vegetables, it would affect grocery stores. Now of course the stores wouldn't go out of business, the fruits and vegetables rate being sold would increase. So in other words, something we did locally would effect globally. But besides this discussion we talked about our thoughts on voting. How more older people tend to vote more nowadays. This brought up the discussion of weather or not the age for kids to be able to start voting should be lowered to age 16. In my opinion, I think at this age we are too young and immature to be asked and vote for political affairs, because honestly everyone would just think the same as their parents. You hear kids arguing politically, but you know it's just them tal

Today in Human geography class, we researched different places around the world and gave cool facts on them. At first I went to the wrong website and found out that you can legally marry a dead person, true or not, I think that's a really weird and interesting. When that fact was shut down I discovered that the school life expectancy was 17 years for girls and only 16 for boys. Is that weird? To me that seems weird. Why does gender matter when it comes to what year you can stop going to school? In the United States it is 16 for everyone. It makes me wonder what makes them think girls should have to be in an extra year before dropping out. But anyway, aside from today's class assignment, I found out that I got a 50 on your quiz, so not as good as I hoped.

Today's class was a little disappointing. You have done it again Mr. Schick. Pop quiz here pop quiz there....it's no biggie, we will survive. But seriously! You're actually killing me. On your last pop quiz I thought I failed and actually ended up doing pretty good so here's hoping for this one. I have to say I'm not enjoying this unit as well as I thought I would. However, I do like learning the different continents. It must seem silly to people who don't live in the

For today's human geography blog I'd like to start out by saying something I wish I would have spoke up in class today. The question was what is the right and wrong thing to do when a customer comes to you for a wedding cake for two males on top? Do you make it or not? It really upset me when my classmates didn't say anything as if it was okay, but then it occurred to me that I wasn't saying anything about the matter either. I soon regretted not speaking my opinions on the matter to create more class discussion. First, I'd like to begin by making my opinions on gay, lesbians, and bi relationships. To me it doesn't matter your religion, or what your parents say on the matter, you can think whatever you want on what is right and wrong to this topic. Your parents shouldn't influence your decision or what the bible says. Also I don't know why people make such a big deal about this as well. It's fine if they don't support it, but they also don't h

Today in human geography class, we discussed the past, present, and future. This led us to talking about how there is a time difference in different regions throughout the world. Now what if we all went by the same time? I guess the better questions is why don't we all go by the same time already? If you think about it, it's actually really strange, but we don't think it is because we are used to it. The reason we don't go by the same time throughout the world is because it may be 12:00 in one place and be daylight but in another it could be the same time, but dark. This is the best way so everyone can experience the same times of day. We really are strange people aren't we if you think about it. Though this might not be an interesting topic to some, it certainly makes me think of our world very differently on how we adapt to our ways of life. I mean it's only been a little over 100 years since we've been living through time like this! Great lesson today, lo

In human geography class today, we finished dividing our regions by the various similarities they shared. My group also noticed a mistake we had been making and fixed it. That was that we weren't exactly dividing the regions to their correct category. For example, when we compared the different maps of presidential votes, we mistakenly put a few states together that weren't always 100% together. Some might have gone democratic one year while the others might have gone republic. I also hadn't picked up that we could divide them up based on weather/temperature. This caught my eye on a few states that were out of place as well. This changes things! This is what also divides us into different cultures. Culture is what makes up a specific region or group of people based on customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms. With the knowledge of the different regions and why they are in that region, it can help us to define what kinds of people may live there. This is what I g

Today in class we learned more vocabulary for the unit. The words we learned today were the types of regions and landscapes. Some examples are cultural landscape, and formal region also known as a uniform region or homogeneous region. The definition of  cultural landscape is a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and and physical features such as climate and vegetation. The definition of formal landscape is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. When we talked about formal regions, we did an activity showing an example of one, which by the way is a perfect example. The maps of the U.S. that show the states voting in each region for democrat and republican parties. This was a great way to explain this because if gives you a variety of regions that all have the same thing in common, and that is exactly what a formal region is. Looking forward to more discussion.