Do Now 9/3
Article of the Week #2
Title: World Map
Iceland
Norway
Russia
Canada
Kazakhstan
U.S.A.
Algeria
Egypt
Mexico
Map Key
Venezuela
India
Nigeria
Kenya
Brazil
Japan
China
Indonesia
Angola
Australia
South Africa
Chile
New Zealand
Directions: Look at and interpret the map above. Then answer the questions.
1. What is the title of this map?
2. Look at the Map Key. What information do you think this map is telling us?
3. Based on the information provided, what are the names of some countries that are
good to be born in? Bad to be born in?
4. What surprises you or what do you find interesting from this map?
Do Now 9/4
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5.
What city is located approximately 35ᵒN and 90ᵒW?
What city is located approximately at 25ᵒN and 80ᵒW?
What is the latitude and longitude of Philadelphia?
Between which lines of latitude is the continental U.S. located? (Not including AL and HW)
Between which lines of longitude is the continental U.S. located?
Do Now 9/5
Directions: Look at the map to answer the following questions.
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2.
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5.
What are the 2 largest mountain ranges in the U.S.?
What are the 7 largest rivers in the U.S.?
What two oceans border the U.S?
What are the names of the five lakes in Northeast U.S.?
Is a map of physical or human characteristics? Is this showing political or physical regions? (Use your
foldable if you have to.)
Do Now 9/6
1. Look at this map of the World Upside-Down. Explain what you see,
what sticks out to you, and what you find interesting.
2. Why do you think we do not normally see maps this way?
3. Based on this map, how does the United States compare to other
countries?
Five Themes of Geography Foldable Rubric
Five Themes of Geography
PAGE 2 -3 in textbook
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Location
• Movement
• Place
• Region
Physical characteristics of geography
influence the human characteristics of
geography.
Think about it.
GEOGRAPHY/GEOGRAPHIC
• related to land, land use, natural resources,
and the environment
• the study of people, place, and environment
focusing on the earth’s surface and the
processes that shape it
HUMAN/ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
• related to how people adapt their lives to
some environmental conditions
Location
Describes where a place is
Relative Location:
• The description of a place in
relation to another.
Absolute Location:
• The exact location of a place
using lines of longitude and
latitude.
ABSOLUTE LOCATION
Movement
Describes the movement of people,
goods, and ideas.
– Migration – movement of people
– Trade – movement of things and goods
– Cultural diffusion – movement of ideas
Migration
Trade
Cultural Diffusion
Directions:
For each type of movement,
illustrate a specific and
unique example.
Region
Describes an area that has its own unifying
characteristics.
Political Boundaries
Physical Boundaries
Region
Describes an area that has its own unifying
characteristics.
Political Boundaries
Type of Region
Physical Boundaries
OUR Region
Capital?
Leader?
World
EARTH
no!
no!
Hemisphere
Western
Hemisphere
North America
no!
no!
no!
no!
Continent
Country
State
United States of Washington,
America
D.C.
North Carolina
Raleigh
County
Mecklenburg
no!
President Barack
Obama
Governor Pat
McCroy
no!
City
Charlotte
no!
Mayor –
Place
Describes an area in terms of its physical
and human characteristics
Physical Characteristics: Describe the
natural environment of a place
Human Characteristics: Describe the
people of a place (past and present)
How do the PHYSICAL characteristics of a place influence the HUMAN characteristics of a place?
Place
Describes an area in terms of its physical
and human characteristics
Physical Characteristics: Describe the
natural environment of a place
Human Characteristics: Describe the
people of a place (past and present)
Examples:
Examples:
• Physical Features:
• Human-made features:
• Forest
• Buildings
• Water – oceans,
• Bridges
• Mountains
• House
• Beach
• Roads
• desert
• Railroads
• Weather and climate:
• technology
• Hot/cold
• What life is like:
• Dry/wet(humid)
• Population Distribution:
• Vegetation/Environment:
• City – urban high population
• Animal life:
• Country – rural low population
• Birds
• Ocean life
How do the PHYSICAL characteristics of a place influence the HUMAN characteristics of a place?
Pg. 17 North Carolina Geography
• Page 17 of ISN
• HOMEWORK: Answer the following question:
• How do the physical characteristics of the 3
different regions in North Carolina affect the
following human characteristics:
– Who lives/has lived in each region
– What the economy is
– About how many people live there/population
World Politically
World Physically
Map #1
Map #2
The 3 Regions of North Carolina
Mountains
Piedmont
Coastal
The 3 Regions of North Carolina
Asheville
Winston-Salem
GreensboroDurham
Raleigh
Fayetteville
Charlotte
Wilmington
Where is North Carolina?