STANDARDS for Unit 1
SSWG1 The student will explain the physical aspects of geography. a. Describe the concept of place by explaining how physical characteristics such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life are used to describe a place. b. Explain how human characteristics, such as population settlement patterns, and human activities, such as agriculture and industry, can describe a place. c. Analyze the interrelationship between physical and human characteristics of a place.
Daily Plans and Assignments
1/8—Syllabus
1/9—Georgia Road Map Activity 1
1/10—Ga Road Map Activity 2-3
1/13—GA Road Map Activity/Maps
1/13—5 Themes pp. 5-13
1/ 14—Landforms and Erosion pp. 26-32
1/ 15—Weather and Climate pp. 48-58
1/ 16—Climate Zones and Vegetation pp. 58-67
1/17 —Human Environment Interaction pp. 32-46
1/21—Basic Concepts/Physical Geography Unit Review
1/22 – Unit 1 Test
NOTE: Assignments are due on the date listed above.
Common Core Elements
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CCSS.ELA
– Literacy.RH.9 – 10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
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CCSS.ELA – Literacy.RH.9 – 10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
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CCSS.ELA – Literacy.RH.9 – 10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
Essential Questions
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What are the five themes of geography and what questions do they ask?
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What tools do geographers use?
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What is topography?
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What is the difference between weathering and erosion, explaining the three transporting agents of erosion?
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What are the different types of precipitation?
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What are four factors that influence climate?
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What are the five basic climate regions?
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What is the Compass Rose? What are the cardinal directions, intermediate directions?

Vocabulary geography hemisphere equator prime meridian latitude longitude globe map cartographer map projection continent magma hydrologic cycle landform relief tectonic plate earthquake volcano weathering erosion absolute location relative location atmosphere place human-environment interaction weather climate precipitation convection natural resource nonrenewable resource weather cultural hearth
El Nino cultural diffusion greenhouse effect per capita income ecosystem biome government standard of living rain forest savanna economic system free enterprise regions population density