DIVIDING THE EARTH
INTO REGIONS
Unit 2, Lesson 5: What Are Some Ways to Organize or Regionalize the Earth?
1
2
REGION: an area with at least
one characteristic or
feature that sets it
apart from other areas
3
What is one way to divide
Michigan into regions?
Review
4
Review
5
Review
6
Review
7
Review
8
Superior
Upland
Review
9
Superior
Upland
Central
Lowland
Central
Lowland
Review
10
What is one way to divide the
United States into regions?
Review
11
Review
12
Review
13
Review
14
Review
15
What map shows the best way to
divide the Earth into regions?
Review
16
NP
SP
Hemispheres
17
NP
Equator = 0o
SP
Hemispheres
18
NP
Northern
Hemisphere
Equator = 0o
SP
Hemispheres
19
Northern
Hemisphere
Hemispheres
20
NP
Northern
Hemisphere
Equator = 0o
SP
Hemispheres
21
NP
Northern
Hemisphere
Equator = 0o
Southern
Hemisphere
SP
Hemispheres
22
Southern
Hemisphere
Hemispheres
23
Could a country be in both the
Northern and Southern
Hemispheres? Why or why not?
Hemispheres
24
Hemispheres
25
NP
SP
Hemispheres
Prime Meridian = 0o
26
NP
SP
Hemispheres
27
Hemispheres
28
Hemispheres
29
Is the United States in the
Western or Eastern
Hemisphere?
Hemispheres
30
Hemispheres
31
Other countries in
both the Western
and Eastern
Hemispheres
Hemispheres
32
What is special about the country of Kiribati?
Hemispheres
33
CONTINENT: a large unbroken
land mass
surrounded by
water
Continents
34
How many continents
are there?
Continents
35
Write the names of the
continents.
Continents
36
Continents
37
Continents
38
a large
unbroken
land mass
surrounded
by water??
Continents
39
Continents
40
Continents
41
a large
unbroken
land mass
surrounded
by water??
Continents
42
Continents
43
Continents
44
What would Antarctica
look like without the ice?
Continents
45
a large
unbroken land
mass
OR
an ice-capped
group of
islands????
Continents
46
How might visitors to Earth describe it?
Continents
47
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
48
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
49
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
50
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
51
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
52
Less Economically Developed Countries
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
53
Less Economically Developed Countries
More Economically Developed Countries
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
54
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
55
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
56
Other Ways to Regionalize Earth
57
By
hemisphere
By
continent
By
time zone
Ways to
divide the
World into
Regions
By natural
characteristics
By human
characteristics
By
??????
58
Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum
Copyright © 2010-2014 by Oakland Schools