3rd Test

Today we went over what our test is going to be like on Thursday. We also practiced the timed portion of the test where we have to use the world fact book and learned what GDP and PPP is. For the first part of class we had to use the world book website and look for specific things about a country. For example, we had to find the population of the United States and to find that you would go to the United States and then to people and society and it is the first thing listed. We also found the infant mortality, airports, and other populations. The point of this was to see if we knew where to find certain information and how fast we could find each thing because we only have 15 minutes to find each answer. While we were doing this we had to find Liechtenstein's GDP per capita (person). GDP is the amount of money per person a country makes. For Liechtenstein their GDP is $139,100 and the United States is $59,000. After looking at the world fact book we answered questions about the vocabulary like net migration rate, rate of natural increase, and total fertility rate. Then we went over population pyramids, the shapes of them, and what the shapes mean. The last thing we went over were push and pull factors of immigration and emigration. Push factors are reasons why people would want to leave their country. For example, people in Mexico might want to leave because of over-employment meaning they have too many people and not enough jobs or people in Chad would want to leave because they have a really poor health system which gives them a high death and infant mortality rate. Pull factors are reasons why people would want to move to a different country. For example, people would want to come to the United States because we have better job opportunities and religious and political freedom or people would want to go to Canada because it has less crime and cheaper health care so it is much safer.