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Today in human geo we went over a power point. We finished going over the leaders of the world because we will have a test on it tomorrow. We went over France, Japan, Italy, Syria, Canada, Israel, US and Kenya. We went through each leader and there background.

Today in Human Geo we talked about what an independent state had and how. We also watched a video that said all the countries really fast in a cartoon. Lastly, we talked about the project we have due on Friday. At the end of class we worked on the project.

Today in human Geo we wrote down notes. we wrote how the world is organized by country, nation, state. The political organization. A country is an identifiable land area. A nation is a population of people with a common culture.  A state is a population under a single government. Nations are groups of people, larger than a single tribe or community which may share a common language, institutions, religion and/or historical experience.

Today in human geo we really just went over things. We first went over the pop quiz that we took yesterday and we circled the right answers on the sheet so we can study from it. Then he told us we have a test on Monday. Great!!!! The week of exams. After we went over that we talked about what would be on the test on Monday. After we talked about that we talked about the exams and little more and the essays on the exams. Then we had about 3 minutes of just some free time.

Today in human geo we first took a pop quiz yay!!!!!! Then we went over the answers to the pop quiz. We went over the stages of demographic transition. Stage 1 is when birth and death rate are high. Stage 2 is when birth rate is high and death rate is falling rapidly. Stage 3 is birth rate is falling and death rate falls slowly. Stage 4 is when birth and death rate is low. Stage 5 is when birth rate is very low and death rate is low. After we went through that we talked about the exams next week.

Today in human geo we watched another video. It was Hans Rosling he teaches global health. He made of graph. The X axis was life span and the Y axis was income. He showed the world separated by color dots. Europe was brown. Asia was red. Middle East was green. Sub-Saharan was blue. Americas was yellow. The graph started in year 1810. In 1810 all people were sick and poor and the life expectancy were 40 years old except for U.K. and Netherlands. As the years went on the life expectancy got higher and people got more money.