Test

Today we had a test in class. In first 10 minutes, we used CIA Factbook to find the answer of 10 questions. But I didn't finish all of these 10, I couldn't find the answer of GDP spent in education of Finland and United States. Then we worked on the remaining sheets, answered some completions and multiple choices. The test question was not very difficult, but it examined many details about something we have learned in class before, so I thought it was a good test paper.

Review class

During today's class, we watched a shot video first. This video is about a anchor who talked about something political. People discussed  if America was the best country, he disagreed with that and gave many examples to support.

Then we found the answer to 10 questions we wrote yesterday on the blog. We opened the World Factbook website, did that to practice how to find the answer quickly, because in next class our test will let us answer 10 questions in only 10 minutes. And the test also included some questions with the CIA.

20 questions with the CIA 3

18) What percentage of the World's labor force works as farmers?
agriculture : 34.7%
industry : 22.4%
services : 42.9%  (2009 est.)

19) Does the US have the greatest number of cellular phones in the world?

not even close...
China : 1 , 300, 000, 000
India : 944, 000, 000
European Union : 632, 500, 000
Indonesia : 319, 000, 000
US : 317, 000, 000

20) What percentage of the world's people live in urban areas (cities)?

54%

Bonus Question :

What are the ten largest cities (urban agglomerations) in the world?

Tokyo (Japan) - 38, 001, 000
New Delhi (India) - 25, 703, 000
Shanghai (China) - 23, 741, 000
Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 21, 066, 000
Mumbai (India) - 21, 043, 000
Mexico City (Mexico) - 20, 999, 000
Beijing (China) - 20, 384, 000
Osaka (Japan) - 20, 238, 000
Cairo (Egypt) - 18, 772, 000
New York-Newark (US) - 18, 593, 000   (2015)

10 questions with the CIA

1) What three countries have the largest areas in the world?

Russia : 17, 098, 242
Canada : 9, 984, 670
United States : 9, 826, 675

2) What is the land use of United States?

agricultural land : 44.5%
arable land : 16.8%  permanent crops : 0.3%  permanent pasture : 27.4%
forest : 33.3%
other : 22.2%  (2011 est.)

3) What three countries have the longest railways in the world?

United States : 224, 792
Russia : 87, 157
China : 86, 000

4) Which country is the biggest producer of electricity, Russia, the US, or China?

Russia - 1, 054, 000, 000, 000 (4th)  the US - 4, 048, 000, 000, 000 (2nd)  China - 5, 169, 000, 000, 000 (1st)

5) What three counties are the biggest importer of electricity?

1 - European Union : 363, 100, 000, 000
2 - United States : 63, 610, 000, 000
3 - Italy : 44, 340, 000, 000

6) What is the exports of China, the US, and France?

China : $2, 252, 000, 000, 000
the US : 1, 610, 000, 000, 000
France : 578, 300, 000, 000

7) What is the military expenditures of United States, and where does it rank?

4.35% of GDP (2012)
ranked : 9th

8) What is the age structure in United States?

0-14 years : 18.99%
15-24 years : 13.64%
25-54 years : 39.7%
55-64 years : 12.73%
65 years and over : 14.88%

9) What percentage of children in India under the age of 5 years underweight?

43.5%

10) What is the unemployment rate of youth ages 15-24 in the US, Spain, and Italy?

the US : 17.3%
Spain : 53.2%
Italy :  35.3%

20 questions with the CIA 2

13) What three countries have the most airports?
1 - the US : 13,513 (2013)
2 - Brazil : 4,093 (2013)
3 - Mexico : 1,714 (2013)

14) What percentage of Americans live below the poverty line?
15.1%

In the US, these are the property line thresholds
1 person - $11,770
2 person - $15,930
3 person - $20,090
4 person - $24,250

International poverty line
In 2008, the poverty line was established at $1.90 a day
approx. 10% of all people live below this line

15) What percentage of the people of South Sudan live below the poverty line?
50.6%

16) What is the GDP per capita in Switzerland, and in Honduras?
$58,100 in Switzerland
$4,700 in Honduras

17) What country has more users with access to the Internet, China or the US?
China : 626,600, 000
the US : 276, 600, 000

20 questions with the CIA 1

1) What is the population of  the US?
321,368,864 (July 2015 est)

2) What is the infant mortality rate in the US, and where do we rank?
total : 5.87 deaths/1000 live births
male : 6.37 deaths/1000 live births
female :5.35 deaths/1000 live births
ranked 167th

3)  Which country has the highest percentage of Catholics, Canada, the US, or Mexico?
Canada - 40.6%  the US - 23.9%  Mexico - 82.7%

4) What country has the largest population in Africa?
Nigeria - 177,155,754  ranked 7th in the world
                3 million in the metro area of Abuja (4th largest urban area)

5) What is the obesity rate in France, the US, and Japan?
France - 18.2%  the US - 35%  Japan - 5%

6) What is the GDP per capita of China, the US, and Norway?
China - $12900 (113th)  the US - $54600 (19th)  Norway - $65900 (12th)

7) What is the unemployment rate in the US?
6.2% (2014)  5.1% (in Sept. 2015)

8) What is the unemployment rate in Qatar?
0.40% (2014)

9) What is the unemployment rate in Zimbabwe?
95%

10) What three countries are the biggest producers of crude oil?
1 - Saudi Arabia : 11.59 million barrels per day
2 - the US : 11.27 million barrels per day
3 - Russia : 10.05 million barrels per day

11) What three countries are the biggest importers of crude oil?
1 - the US : 8.53 million barrels per day
2 - China : 5.67 million barrels per day
3 - India : 3.81 million barrels per day

12) What three countries have the greatest carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy?
1 - China : 10 billion metric tons
2 - the US : 5.27 billion metric tons
3 - India : 1.83 billion metric tons

TFR and migraion

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

TFR : average number of children born per woman

for a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1 (because some children can't live long)
higher than 2.1 - population rises
lower than 2.1 - population falls

World TFR : 2.42 (two years ago - 2.59/ last 2.47)
U.S. 2.01 (last year - 2.06)
Nigeria 6.89
Japan 1.40 (a lot of old people and no children)

Total rate : zero

Net migration rate : the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year

an excess of persons entering the country is net immigration

- written as a positive number
- example :
Canada has 5.65 migrant per 1000 population
U.S. 2.45 (it was 3.62 last year)

an excess of persons leaving the country is net emigration

- written as a negative
- example :
Mexico has -1.68 migrants per 1000 population
                   -3.61 migrants two years ago and -3.11 migrants last year per 1000 population

Mr. Schick I didn't go to school last Friday, so I didn't write last blog.

Population

Life expectancy

The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year

 

Monco       total 89.68   men 80.57   women 93.77 

(#50)U.S.   total 78.49   men 76.05   women 81.05

Chad          total 48.69   men 47.61   women 49.82

Women live longer than men

1. Men do more dangerous work, such as police man or fire fighter

2. Women do more physical examination, they are more willing to go to the doctor. Men will not go to doctor until it's too late.

3. Diet (buy which food and go where to eat)

Average life in most African area is not long because of scanty resources, such as clean water or education system

Different areas have huge difference even many decades

Measuring population

crude birth rate : number of births per 1000 of the population

crude death rate : number of deaths per 1000 of the population

rate of natural increase (RNI)

- produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate

- this gives us the annual natural growth rate in percentage form - for a country or region

But don't forget about migration