Population and Settlement

Today in class we started our new unit on population and settlement. Mr. Schick had us write down the terms life expectancy, birth rate, death rate, Rate of Natural Increase (RNI), infant mortality rate, immigrant, emigrant, Net Migration Rate, Total Fertility Rate (TFR), push forces, pull forces. We only got to the first slide of the powerpoint since our class was 40 min because of the pep rally. The first slide told us that there are 7.6 billion on the Earth right now and that 90% of the population growth takes place in Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. We learned that this because those countries don't have all the resources that can prevent birth like we do in the US. Women in the US also choose to give birth a lot later than women in those countries because most of them have jobs. Mr. Schick put a world population clock on the board and we watched the population go up and down. We learned that there is one birth every 8 seconds and 1 death every 11 seconds in the US. We also saw that China and India are the most populated countries, with both of them having over 1.3 billion people. 

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