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Student Lesson ArcServer
Lesson Title: The New Religions
Lessons Summary: In this lesson you will investigate the population of adherents to the three
major monotheistic religions. They will compare location, region and exception when looking at
populations adhering to each religion. They will compare high, medium and low values of the
Human Development Index to see if there are regional correlations..
Lesson Objective: Students will relate how religion and region are often interconnected and
predict where a religion might be located around the globe based on people groups.
Before you begin using this module, you will need to know about using a Web-based GIS
viewer. You can do this by watching the tutorial video or working through the tutorial. The
tutorial video, student activity, and Web-based GIS Tutorial Viewer can be found at
http://gis.lanecc.edu  “Modules” tab  “Tutorial” link. The will need a computer with a high
speed Internet connection
Prior Skills: You will need to know how to turn layers on and off, use the ID tool and, zoom in
and out of the map, toggle from layers to the legend, and perform a search query.
Remember, computer steps are indicated by a
numbered.
symbol and questions you need to answer are
Record the answers to the question on a separate sheet of paper.
Connect to the MAPS-GIS Web page at http://gis.lanecc.edu
Click on the Modules Tab, scroll down to the “ArcServer Web-based GIS” section and
click on Server Maps and Lessons.
Scroll down and click on the link to World Religions.
Click “Link to the Web-based GIS map” and a new tab or window called
“flex map” will open.
1) Describe the extent of the map. Does it open to it a global, continental, regional,
or state image?
The Table of Content (TOC) shows data layers. You’ll notice some layers are
checked and some aren’t. If they have a check mark, they are visible. Click the
selection boxes for “Capital” “River” and “Lake” to make the layers visible. .
The equator is the red line that divides the northern and southern hemisphere. On a
globe this line is exactly halfway between the north and south poles.
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The equator is in located correctly passing through South America, Africa, and Indonesia. But,
because of the way it is shown on a flat computer screen, it looks as if the northern and southern
hemisphere aware not equal.
The Prime Meridian divides the eastern and western hemispheres.
The United States is in the two hemispheres. One hemisphere is the northern.
2) What is the other hemisphere for the United States?
In this lesson you will use these locations to help describe where religious adherents live.
Turn on the City layer.
3) Describe the distribution of major world cities. Which two hemispheres (north or south) and
(east or west) do you find a majority of cities?
Turn off the City, Capital, Lake, and River layers.
Turn on the % Jewish. This layer shows the percent of the population who practice Judaism.
Examine the legend by clicking the triangle beside the layer.
The United States falls in the data range 2.1% to 4%. To find the actual percent for the US use
the ID tool.
Click the ID tool then click on the US.
Scroll across the data table to find the data field (Column) called jewi_per (percent Jewish)
and Jewish_num. (Total number of people who practice Judaism)
4) How many people practice Judaism in the US? What is the percent of the population?
It is difficult to see the country that has the higher percent because it is very small.
You can create a query to find that country.
Right click the layer and choose Query Layer.
You may need to drag the query window up to see the
entire window.
Scroll down the Field Name to Jewi_per and Double
click. It will be added in the selection window at the bottom.
Choose the > symbol and click once.
Type in 4.0  Choose OK. A data window will open.
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Chose the data window.
The country is highlighted, but it is still hard to see.
Choose Selection from the top of the map.
Choose Zoom to Selected Features.
Only one country is included in the data range 4.1 to 86% .
5) What is the country?
Use the ID tool to find the percent of Jewish adherents.
6) What percent of the population in this country are Jewish adherents?
The percent of countries that have over 85% adherents to Judaism is determined by dividing 1 by
the total number of counties (205) and multiplying that by 100.
.48% of the world countries has an adherents rate of 85% or more to Judaism.
Click the globe and Zoom to the full extent of the map.
The percent of words population that adheres to Judaism seems evenly distributed in the western
hemisphere with the US north of the equator and Brazil and Chili south of the equator having
the most adherents. In the eastern hemisphere, the adherence to Judaism outside of Israel is
clustered in the European countries.
7) Describe the area where the adherents to Judaism is between 0 and .1%
8) What do you know about the history of Judaism that would explain the location of Jewish
adherents today?
Turn off % Judaism and turn on % Christianity and expand the legend.
9) Which area of the world has the highest rate of Christian adherents? Use the location north or
south of the equator and east or west of the Prime Meridian in your description.
10) Describe where Christianity is a percentage of 0 to 17.
11) What do you know about the history of Christianity that would help explain its location
today?
To find the number of countries that have Christian adherents of 85 % of more use a query.
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Right click % Christianity and start a Query.
Field Name: Chris_per (Double Click)
Choose: > (Single click)
Type in 84.9
Choose OK
12) How many countries meet your query – See Query Results?
13) What percent of the world has 85% adherents to Christianity? (Hint: Query Results - divided
by 205 - times 100)
Turn off Christianity and turn on % Muslim.
Expand the legend.
Did you know?
A person who practices the Islamic
religion is called A Muslim.
The religion is called Islam.
14) Describe the location of the countries where %
Islamic adherents is 79 to 100%.
15) Describe the location of 0 - 5% adherents to Islam.
To find the number of countries that has adherents of 85 % of more use a query.
Right click the % Muslim Layer.  Query Layer
Field Name : Mus-Per
>
84.9
OK
16) What percent of the world has 85% adherents to Islam? (Hint: Query Results divided by 205
then multiply by 100)
Using the blank map fill in the regions of the three monotheistic religions.
Remember, there are many other religions not evaluated in this lesson (Shinto, Buddhism,
Hindu, Indigenous, and many others). Because not all religions are represented, there will be area
on your map that are not colored or shaded.
17) Think about the countries where the majority of the population adheres to the same religion.
Discuss how do you think that would impact things like: Clothing, food, holidays, language,
customs, government, buildings?
18) Nigeria is 48%, Christian, and 50% Muslim. How do you think this would impact the
culture?
Quality of Life and Monotheisms
To evaluate the quality of life for many of the regions around the world, you will look at a
statistic called the “Human Development Index” (or HDI).
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The HDI is a number that combines – Life Expectancy, Education, and a Standard of Living
value, to give one number that can be used to rank countries. Monotheism refers to the three
modern religions that adhere to the belief in one God.
The HDI ranges in this data set from 95 (high) to 28 (low). The values -9999 indicate that no
data was available.
Turn off the religion layers.
Right click country and choose query layer
Field Name: HDI_2003 (Double Click)
> (Single Click)
0
AND
Field Name: HDI_2003 (Double Click)
< 45
OK
19) Describe the location of these countries. Are they evenly distributed or clustered in one area?
If they are clustered, do you see any exceptions?
Go to Selection and Clear Selected Features.
Right click country and choose query layer
Field Name: HDI_2003 (Double Click)
> (Single Click)
44
AND
Field Name: HDI_2003 (Double Click)
< 70
OK
20) Describe the location of these countries. Are they evenly distributed or clustered in one
area? Are there exceptions?
Finally, evaluate the high HDI value and the high religious adherence.
Clear Selected Features.
Right click country and choose query layer.
Field Name: HDI_2003 (Double Click)
> 69 (Single Click)
OK
21) Describe the location of these countries. Are they evenly distributed or clustered in one
area? Are there exceptions?
22) Look at you region map. Do you see any correlation or pattern between HDI and the three
religions you have been evaluating?
Turn on the Major Religion Layer and expand the legend.
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This layer has Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in addition to many other religions.
23) Compare your map with the GIS map. Where do you agree? Where do you disagree?
Open up the layer “Religion Sub Groups” under the layer tabs and look at the religions listed
there by clicking on the arrow to the left of the layer selection box.
24) Do you think adding subgroups make the map more useful? Why would you want to break
up major religions into subgroups?
Critical Thinking
Often people who work for Global Aide agencies need to understand the demographics of a
country in order to make decision about how to improve the general quality of life for the people
in that country.
1) Choose one of the countries on the list with a low HDI – Below 70. Record the data about the
country demographics – the other fields of information.
Pop_den_07: People per square mile ( 2007)
Per_urb_05: Percent urban by date (05=2005)
D_Rate05: Death Rate - The number of people per every 1000 people in the country who die in
a year.
B_Rate 05: Brith Rate – The number of births per every 1000 people in the country a year.
Infant_Mort 05: Infant Mortality - The number of infants who die before their first birthday for
every 1000 live births.
Life_EXP05: Life Expectancy – The average life expectancy.
Net_MIG05: Net Migration. The number of people moving into the country.
FR_UN05: Fertility rate – The average number of babies a woman will have in her lifetime.
GDP_2003: Gross Domestic Product. Related to the economy of a country and can help indicate
the standard of living. It is connected to the value of the goods and services produced in a
country.
2) Discuss ways you can improve three of demographics values to improve the quality of life in
that country.
Career Extension
Go to the website: http://www.esri.com/industries.html
Find a career that might be of interest to you. For example in the Human and Health Services
list there is a link to Public Health.
Prepare a half-page summary of the types of things that someone would do in this career
using GIS.
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