Notes on population, Ramadan and coordinates

Artful maps; Magnet Shreveport: Caleb Phillips
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Implications of the world population of 6.8 billion -
- a crowded planet, therefore . . .

- food shortages
- water "
- housing "
- jobs "

India: democratic government. Fastest population growth.
China: totalitarian / Communist government. The central authorities control population by the policy that states "One family, one child."


* Required for geography class: Hammond Notebook Atlas or the Rand McNally Notebook Atlas.


Spaceship Earth project -
- Cutting, coloring, pasting, adding info: a tactile, or hands-on lesson.
- World Geo reading on coordinates: pp. 5 - 7, 35, 237.

- Pangaea - theory of massive continent that split apart into today's several continents.
- oblate - oval

Ramadan Mubarak! ("Happy Ramadan!")
- a month of fasting from sunrise to sunset.
- one billion Muslims across the world.
- feast that ends Ramadan: Eid al Fitr.