• top importer coal japan does not make their own coal \
• japan imports 17.5%
• top 3 producers china,usa, and india\
• many miners get disease from inhaling the black cold dust
• reudces your life expectancty long cause smoke
• many cave in have happen very dangerous job, explosins
• many gas come off of the coal
• coal is used to make half of united states electricty
• its very cheap and also we are not going to run out soon.
• many negative effect powerplants shortens 24,000 lives a year many recicve lung cancer
• acid rain is when the air becomes so polluted
• clean coal is to reduce the pollution in the air and clean way to burn coal

blog:12/1/11

Today in class we worked on this project about the 3 levels of Economics activity. We talked about GDP and the labor force. My group learned that many countries do not have a high percentage of agriculture.What I saw was that the many  not as developed countries like as Russia or Saudi Arabia or United States rely on agriculture alot more than the other countries.            

blog:11/30/11

today in class Robert taught the class and he taught us about natural resources.Renewable resources.Nonrenewable resources are resources that do not replace themselves oil,fossil fuels,natural gas,cooper,gold,iron,cooper.Then there is human resources the people who serve and who work at the c.i.a.Capital Resources used to make money make more of something like money or tools. Primary-dealing w/natural resources(ex:fishing and farming.Secondary-manufactoring and processing of natural resources(ex:steel mills,automoblie assembley,saw mils.Third-service industries ex:transportation retail trade informational technolgy
wood-deforestation
coal-pollution,minning

blog:11/28/11

Today in class we went over our test on population pyrmaids and I did okay not as well as I wanted to I received a 74% on the test. We also talked about how Mr.Schicks weekend was he spoke about how his dinner was and how his drivinng was being critcized on the way there. We also switched seats today and we also learned that we will not be using our computers that much anymore in class. Becasue many of us got off task in class.

blog:11/21/11

Today in class we took a quiz on pouplation pyrmaids. That was very difficult but we were able to use our blogs.
Also we finished up on our google document about pouplation it was very tough. Everyone in our group contributed to the project each of us answered parts of a questions.

Blog:11/17/11

Today in class we had a class discussion we talked about numerous things suchas why cant  we pull the troops out of Afghanstian. We also spoke about the war several years ago about the war in Vietnam were we fought with the south and to try help them aganist the North were we afraid of communism and we thought if north vietinam got south vietnam to become communist then the it would be a domino effect and spread to all the other countries and then they would all join together and go aganist everyone else. Then we spoke about the birth rate and why it was so high in Africa and it was because many places theres a myth going around that if you have aids/hiv and you sleep with virgin that you will be cured and what they do not understand is that they are spreading it to people.

blog:11/16/11

Today in class we worked on blue papers and talked about what is crude birth rate and crude death rate.

Then we also talked about how the poor health care affects the birth rate in some countries. Because these girls do not birth control and they are just having sex. And the birth control can help them from getting pregnant .But in Africa unfourtantley they do do not have that. We also talked about how africa and Swaziland treat the woman in there country like 2nd or 3rd class citizens or even less.