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Today in class we took our test on the 5 major religions. The major religions were Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I think I knew the first half of the test (about half the questions), but I wasn't confident about the back. I think the questions on the front were easier because they were questions that we studied on the quilt. On the back there were some questions that I didn't know. one of the questions I didn't know was something like, which religion associates with "nirvana"? I didn't know that one, so I guessed. I also want sure about the Abraham questions. There were about 2-3 of those and I guessed 1 or 2 of those too. I also didn’t remember some of the geographical locations of some of the religions, but I could have studied those more. I don’t think I got any higher than a 90, but I don’t think I failed. 

Today in class we reviewed for our test and heard some interesting stories about movies. First, we did a quizlet which I thought was very helpful. I liked how we saw the answers first and then had to say the definition because I think I learned better the way. I will probably use that to study for the test on Monday. I think I will do well on the test because it is only 50 points and it only has 25 questions, so I don't think it will be too hard. In the other part of class, we heard about some cool movie stories. I thought the helicopter story was kind of terrifying, and the Home Alone stories were cool. Home Alone is one of my favorite Christmas movies and it was so cool to hear that our teacher knew the home alone kid. This weekend I will study the quizlet, the slideshow, and my notes for the test. 

Today in class we finished taking notes on the 5 major world religions. In the last class we took notes and learned about Christianity. This class we learned about Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Islam is the second biggest religion with 1.5 billion people practicing it. They are called Muslims, they are located in Indonesia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Their founder is Muhammad and they are monotheistic and Abrahamic. They believe in the 5 pillars which are testimony, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. The 3 biggest religion was Hinduism which has 1.1 billion people practicing it. They are called Hindus and they are located in India and Nepal. The book they worship from in called the Vedas which is most times memorized and sung. No one founded tis religion, it is not like most religions and it is more of a way of life. They believe in reincarnation. The next religion was Buddhism which has 500 mil-1.5 billion people practicing. They are called Buddhists and t...

Today in class we got our test scores and reviewed our test. I got a 95 on my test. I am very happy with my grade and I think I did my best. I got 2 questions wrong, one was about infrastructure the other one was about the CIA world Fact book. The other part of class we started learning about the next topic which was the 5 major religions. The 5 major religions were Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Christianity is the biggest religion in the world. 2.2 billion people are Christians. Many Christians are located in Europe, the Americas, and Southern Africa. I think this is the easiest religion to remember because I am catholic (Christian). We did not talk about the rest of the religions in class because we ran out of time, but I am probably going to look over them because we only have one more class until our test. 

Today in class we took our test on population, migration, and population pyramids. It was basically on most things from our last test and on the stuff, we have been learning in class for the past month. It had questions on immigration, emigration, which country had high life expectancy, crude birth and death rate, GDP per capita, and some predictions of population pyramid sin the future. I think I prepared myself well. I am definitely glad that I went over and looked through the population power point became there were a lot of questions that I would not have known, if I didn't glance at the PowerPoint before the test. It also definitely helped to try and watch the video before taking the test because, it showed what some country's population pyramids looked like. The only thing I wasn’t sure I got right was the questions about infrastructure, but I felt good about the rest of the questions. I think I did well on the test. 

Today in class we reviewed for our test on Monday. We watched the video about population pyramids again to refresh our memories and we also took some notes on the video. I am glad we watched the video again because I learned that on the population pyramid, men are on the left and women are on the right. the population pyramid is divided into sections. Age 0-14 id the pre reproductive, 15-44 is reproductive, and 45+ is post reproductive. In the video they also showed 3 country's population pyramids. Japan, Canada, and Rwanda. Japan's population pyramid was long at the stop and smaller towards the bottom, meaning their population is decreasing. Canada's population pyramid was mostly the same length, but smaller at the bottom, this means that their population might start to decrease soon. Rwanda’s population pyramid was like the opposite of Japan. It was smaller at the top and long as it went down, this means that their population is increasing. In class we also watched Jeopa...

Today in class we watched the last presentation and then graded our groups presentation. The last group that presented was on Italy and Tanzania. I learned a lot about Africa while listening to their presentation. I learned that Tanzania is a sub-Saharan African country. When I pictured Africa, I thought everyone in Africa was poor and in poverty. After looking at some pictures of the biggest city in Tanzania, I was shocked to see that it looked like any other big city you would see in the U.S. or any other rich country. The other part of class, we had to grade our members in our group on their part of their presentation. I gave, myself a 95 because I think I created my slide well and worked well, but I think I could have said more information while I was presenting. I gave the other members in our group a good/passing grade because some did more work than others, but everyone did their part of the presentation.