World Geography EOC
Comprehensive Map Review
Based on the 6 Essential Elements of Geography
Modified from: CFBISD
Teacher Information
Materials Needed:
1. Tape, Glue sticks, and map colors
2. Student Map – The map is in a Publisher File and will automatically print
the world map on 6 different sheets of paper. Students will have to tape
the maps together. (This may take about 20 minutes or so for 9th graders).
3. Student Packet – each student will need the student resource packet –
since these items will be cut up, it is essential that you run the packets on
only one side of the paper. Suggestion: Since not all of the cutting and
gluing will happen on the same day – you might want to give the students
a manila folder, envelope, or plastic bag to hold their remaining items.
4. Power Point
5. Atlases or textbooks
5/12/14
• QOD: What is the name of the group who has
kidnapped hundreds of children in an oil rich
African country?
– Boko Haram
• Why is this group doing this?
– “Many Nigerians suggest the emergence of Boko
Haram was in part a reaction to this systematized
corruption,” Chayes wrote in an op-ed piece in the
Los Angeles Times.
World Geography EOC Review
Below is an example of what your map will look like when we are complete.
Your Map will include items on the back …
We will process significant information on the back of your map.
The World in Spatial Terms
Refers to the connections that people, places, and
environments have to one another because of their
location on the earth’s surface.
1. Maps represent places on the Earth’s surface, and can be
used to answer geographic questions, infer relationships,
and analyze change.
2. Processes of spatial diffusion has influenced the past,
shapes the present, and will influence events in the
future.
3. National boundaries (borders), generally set up by
governments, are the product of both physical and human
processes.
4. Location, or a specific place on earth, does not determine
exactly how we live, but it does influence our lives.
Task: Map Set-up
1. Put the 6 pages together to create the map.
2. Write name in the top, left corner of the
map.
3. Grab a pair of scissors and glue stick
4. Cut out the legend and glue to the bottom,
left corner of the map.
Borders and Boundaries
• The world is divided into many separate
independent, national states, each with its
own sovereign government.
What factors determine where boundaries
between countries are established?
Glue Borders study card on
the back of the map.
Task: Locate and label places of
geopolitical significance.
Population Pyramids
What do population pyramids tell us?
Task: Population Pyramids
• Look at the (10) population pyramids from your student packet and
discuss the challenges that each country is facing or may face in the
future.
• Label Pyramids
• LDC (less developed country)
• MDC (More developed country)
• Fast Slow or negative growth
• Paste pyramids on back of map
• Cut out the two blocks of people and place them in the two highly
populated countries
• Cut out the ‘growth’ images and glue them on or near two fast
growing countries
Task: Population Patterns and
Movement
• Cut out the blocks of people and glue
them in or near highly populated
countries.
• Cut out the growth images and glue
them on or near two fast growing
countries.
• Cut out factors influencing where people
settle study cards (2) and glue them on
the back of the map.
Task: Using the migration map below – draw arrows on your map to
show the migration routes. Why did each of these migrations occur?
Cut and glue factors of migration study cards to the back of the map.
Why do different regions fall into these
different categories?
Net migrations
Population Issues
How can we address problems facing
fast growing populations?
What are the challenges facing
shrinking populations? How can they
be addressed?
Places and Regions
1. Regions are how geographers organize the
study of geography.
2. Earth is crisscrossed and layered with a
system of complex divisions.
3. Some boundaries are blurred, based largely
on personal or group perceptions.
4. Every place has certain physical and human
characteristics that make it different from
any other.
Task: Regions of the World
• Work as a group to come to a consensus on
how to divide the world into regions.
• Be able to defend your division of the world.
• Cut out the types of regions (1) and Cultural
Regions study cards (3), and glue to the back
of the map.
• Optional: Regional Wall Graffiti
Task: Characteristics of a Place
• Work as a group, analyze each image:
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What do you see?
What can you infer about the place?
Where do you think the picture was taken?
Why? What clues from the image helped you
determine the location?
• When your group has finished analyzing each
image, cut out and glue the images near their
respective location.
Physical Systems
• The earth’s system is made up of four
interactive components: atmosphere,
biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere
• Both internal and external forces create,
maintain, and modify the earth’s surface.
• Landforms, soil, and climate greatly affect the
plants and animals that can be found in each
place.
Task: Physical Features
• Work as a group to locate, draw, and label the
physical features listed in your resource
packet. Be sure to reference the key.
Your map should be starting to look like this one….
Task: Physical Processes
• Glue the study cards on the back of your map.
– Tectonic plate movement
– Hydrosphere
How does climate affect how people live?
Simple summary of
climatic zones:
Polar - very cold and
dry all year
Temperate - cold
winters and mild
summers
Arid - dry, hot all year
Tropical - hot and wet
all year
Mediterranean - mild
winters, dry hot
summers
Mountains (tundra)
very cold all year
The classification is based on
maximum and minimum temperatures
and the temperature range as well as
the total and seasonal distribution of
precipitation.
Earth’s oceans are in constant motion.
Soil and Vegetation
How do soil and climate help to determine the vegetation of a region?
Task: Physical Processes
• Glue the study cards on the back of your map.
– Atmosphere and Weather
– Climate
Human Systems
• Culture is a people’s way of life.
• Different cultures have different social
structures, distributions of wealth, and
institutions.
• Religion permeates every culture in some way,
and each has its own beliefs, moral code, and
traditions.
Culture
What are the different aspects of a
person’s culture?
How are each of us a product of our
culture?
Task: Cultural Hearths – Draw a red heart on your map
for each of the culture hearths on the map below.
Can you identify why each of these is a cultural hearth? Think history…..
Task: Language – cut the key to the left from your student
packet and glue it next to your physical key on your map and label
languages on your map using this key.
Task: World Religions
• Cut out and glue the religions study cards
on to the back of your map.
• Read over the characteristics of each
religion.
• Create or use a symbol for each religion
and add it to your key.
• Use the symbols you created to mark the
location and spread of each religion on
your map.
Economic Geography
• What are the three main types of economic
systems?
• How are developed countries and developing
countries different?
• What factors affect the location of the
different types of economic activities?
• Explain the relationship between economic
activities, economic development, and
economic systems?
Task: Economic Geography
• Cut and glue in the study cards for: Indicators
of Development (1), levels of economic
development and economic activities (1), and
economic systems (4).
Political Geography
Task: Political Geography
• Cut and glue in the study cards for the
different types of government.
Is your map starting to look like this?
Environment and Society
• Humans sometimes must respond to conditions
of extreme weather or natural disasters.
• Humans depend on, adapt to, and modify their
physical environment.
• People seek to use renewable resources, to
conserve non-renewable resources, and to
pursue sustainable development to protect our
environment.
• Geographers study how people interact with the
environment and how people use resources.
Environment and Society
Discuss ways, both positive and negative,
that people adapt to or modify their
environment?
What are some ways in which the physical
environment affects peoples lifestyles?
Give one example of how your own
activities are influenced by your
environment.
Weather
1. Complete your chart using
your knowledge and
classroom resources.
2. Using the symbols you
created, draw the symbols on
the front of your own map in
the appropriate places for
each phenomena.
3. Cut out the chart and glue
it to the back of your map.
Weather Phenomena and Natural
Disasters
• Create a symbol for various weather
phenomena and natural disasters and add
them to your legend:
– Hurricanes
– Tornadoes
– Tsunamis
– Monsoons
• Add the symbols to the map in the area in
which they occur.
Task: Resources
1. Add these images to
your key.
2. Using the maps that
follow or your
textbook, look up the
main locations for
these resources and
draw them in the
proper regions on
your world map.
Oil (on key)
Coal
Lumber
Diamonds/
gemstones
Nuclear Power
Oil Reserves
Coal
Timber
Diamonds/Gemstones
Nuclear Energy
Your map should be starting to look like this….
Task: Environment and Society
• Cut and glue in the study cards for:
– Effects of Environment on People
– How People Modify the Environment
– Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
– Earth’s Resources
Environment and Society
Why do nations carry on trade with each other?
Unequal distribution of resources (scarcity)
How does the location of resources determine the
development level of a nation?
What has been the impact of technology on the
use, distribution, and management of natural
resources? Provide examples.
Uses of Geography
• Both physical features and cultures change over
time.
• The management and distribution of natural
resources affects trade patterns and poses
problems, especially if there is scarcity.
• Globalization, including outsourcing and the
creation of free trade zones, is changing
economies around the world today and providing
challenges for the future.
• Democratic systems are gradually replacing many
authoritative regimes worldwide.
Determining Levels of Development
HDI – Levels of Economic Development
Supranational Organizations
NAFTA
Members of NATO
EU
WTO
Conflicts
Draw a caution symbol near the following sites on
your map to represent these areas of conflict.
• Ireland
• Bosnia
• Israel
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• South Africa
• Chechnya
• Uganda
• North Korea
Conflicts
Look at your map, discuss each of the
conflicts listed on your map. Who was at
odds? Why were they fighting? What was
the result of the conflict? Or, is it still on
going? Be prepared to share out.
How does conflict lead to cultural change?
How is conflict seen through the eyes of
differing cultures?
Does your map Look Like This?
Globalization
Why do nations carry on trade with each
other?
How is globalization transforming our world?
Task: Uses of Geography
• Cut and glue the following chapter study cards
to the back of the map;
– How Regions Change
– How Geography Affects the Location of Economic
Activities
– Specialization Leads to Trade
– Causes of Globalization
– Global Trade Patterns
– Roots of Change: Conflict
Quiz answers
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6.
Push/Pull
India/China
Less developed
Africa
Africa
Plants and animals/living
organisms
7. India
8. Free Trade associations
9. B/USA
10. North America/Brazil or South
America
11. Africa
12. Conflict
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25.
Totalitarian state
Communism
Unequal distribution of
resources
Europe/North America or
USA/ Japan
Australia
South America
Asia
Africa
Asia
North America
Africa
Europe/Africa/Antarctica
Africa