Sep 13/14: formative frq on population

Links for the Bellringer:

• LIVE video from Cape Fear, North Carolina USA -- as Hurricane Florence begins to land
• Live news updates on Hurricane Florence (The Guardian)
• Super Typhoon Mangkhut: Where is it now? (Express.co.uk)
• Typhoon Mangkhut: Millions in Philippines Braced for Storm (BBC)
• Hurricane Florence & Typhoon Mangkhut: What to expect (NYTimes)
• Earthquakes, rains, heatwave, typhoon: Japan's brutal summer of 2018 (StraitTimes)
• Worst Floods in a Century Wash Over Southern India Displacing 800,000 (WSJ)
• Floods from Laos Dam Collapse Force Evacuations in Cambodia (StraitTimes)

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Helpful Resources for Class:

• Presentation: Fouberg Key Issue 3-4​​
• Population Pyramids(presentation)
• ​Populationpyramid.net
• Population Pyramids - compare countries (Instructions)

MEDC and LEDC -- How does economic development affect population?

Today you will be picking 2 countries to follow and study as a year-long case study. The criteria for picking 2 countries:

1. One country must be an MEDC; the other country an LEDC
2. You cannot pick the same country as someone else in class
3. Ideally, you should consider 2 countries that are not in the same geographic region (or not in the same continent) 
   

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Your first task after picking your 2 countries is to compare population pyramids of the two countries. Populationpyramid.net

After that, begin looking at their economic develop.  Find a country profile for both and either make notes or print out a country profile for both countries to add to your binder. You will study this country during each unit so that you have a more systemic understanding of the factors that shape the people, places and environment of this country. 
Consider G-SPICE for each country:
G- Geography
S - Social/Society
P - Political
I - Intellectual/Innovation (also education)
C - Cultural
E - Economic
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MEDC + LEDC country selections:

• MEDC & LEDC - Explained (website)
• http://human-geo-blog-project.blogspot.com/2009/11/f.html
• https://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=27839
• http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/least_developed_countries.htm

More Population Pyramid Practice...

HW: Study for DTM & Population pyramid FRQ

Prep for FRQ next class - Use the FRQ Study Guide + DTM Note-taking activity to help you prepare for the next formative FRQ on DTM and/or Population Pyramids.

Link to Article to use for FRQ Study Guide:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/16/how-america-will-look-in-2060-in-1-amazing-gif ​
For the DTM Note-taking activity, watch the DTM video.