Population Pyramids

Today in the wonderful Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we continued talking about the Total Fertility Rate and then moved on to populations. We started off the class by passing around a chocolate cake. Yep, that wasn't a typo. Owen literally brought in chocolate cake. So, we passed it around and everyone cut themselves a piece of chocolate cake and "quietly" ate it. After discussing TFR further we went into population. We learned about these wonderful things called population pyramids. These are like bar graphs but in the shape of a Christmas tree. Population pyramids help us not only compare the populations of different ages but also compare the populations of boys to girls. Its interesting to look at the different shapes of the pyramids when we compare an aging country's population like Japan to a developing country like Chad. After this the bell rang and ended class.

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