World Geography 1st Period - Ms. Marko 2016-2017

1. Welcome To Ms. Marko’s class, please sit in your assigned seat.

2. Student Name World Geography 1st period Ms. Marko 2016-2017

3. World Map ( Do not write Oceania or Southern, or label North or South on Oceans) Prime Meridian 1

4. Geography key terms2 Absolute location- the exact spot on earth where a place can be found. Relative location- the location of one place in relation to other places. Cartographer- a person who makes maps Thematic map- a map that focuses on a specific idea or theme. Map projection- one of the different ways of showing the earth’s surface on a flat map. Interdependence- the economic, political and social dependence of culture regions on one another. Prime Meridian- o degree longitude runs through London, france, algeria, Ghana ( North to South) Equator- o degree latitude, runs through Equador, Brazil, Congo, Kenya and Borneo ( East to West) Physical Map- map that shows landforms and elevations Political Map- map that shows cities and or countries Latitude- lines on a map that run east to west Longitude- lines on a map that run north to south

5. 3 5 themes of geography Location- tells exactly where a place is located (ex. Absolute location, relative location) Place- what it looks like? (ex mountains, rivers or climate warm, cold, tropic) Region- characteristics that are the same in an area (ex. Language, religion, economy) Movement- how and why people and goods move and how they affect people (ex disease, economy, weather, roads) Human Enviorment- Interation- how people adapt or effect their surroundings (ex: irrigation, dams, pollution )

6. Today’s instructions • Get ISN and sit in assigned seat. • Once I change slide to warm up, you will copy it on ISN 4. You will use ISN 4 for the entire week. All warm ups will be done upon on this page. Always write the questions in ISN. • We will do an application of 5 themes Worksheet which will be glued on ISN 5 • We will open our Green Textbooks to page RA 2-3 to get acquainted with map skills.

7. 4 Warm Up for week of 8/ 29 Mon8/29- Give an example of Human Environment Interaction. Tues8/30- What is the difference between modify and adapt Wed 8/31- In what two hemispheres do we live? Thurs 9/1- What is the difference between a physical and political map Fri 9/2- what is the difference between a Peninsula and an Island? • Warm up • Landform dictionary • Finish Map Skills put 2nd page on ISN 7 • Closure activity *Download Image share from Balfour and use code 709479 for HBMS, You can upload pictures to the yearbook * StuCo meeting has been moved to the sept 7th

8. 5 5 themes of Geography Read each statement below and determine which theme of Geography it is describing. Choose from the box. 1. Railroad networks in Europe make traveling easier for tourists. _______________ 2. The warm climate if the southern states makes it attractive for tourists _________________ 3. Islam is the major religion in the middle east __________________ 4. Mongolia is south of Russia and north of China _______________________ 5. The ancient Egyptians built levees to hold back the flooding waters of the Nile River ___________________________ 6. What theme is where the place is? ___________________________________ 7. What theme is what the place is like? ______________________________ 8. What theme is how people have adapted the environment? _______________ 9. What theme is how the place is in relation to other places? _________________ 10. Latitude and Longitude are what theme? _________________________________ 11. Trucks and cars are what theme? _________________________________________ 12. parks and garbage dumps are what theme? _____________________________ 13. people and cultures are what theme? ____________________________________ 14. Forest and continents are what theme? ___________________________________ Other geography questions Name some barriers to movement? __________________________________________ Name some pull factors _____________________________________________________ Name some push factors ____________________________________________________ Name 3 types of maps ______________________________________________________ Name 3 types of thematic maps. ____________________________________________ Latitude runs from _______________ to ______________________ Longitude runs from __________________ to ____________________ There are _____ hemispheres the _________, ___________, __________, ___________ The majority of the population lives in the ______________ hemisphere What are the 5 ways culture spreads? _________________, ___________,__________________, __________, ________________ The equator is a line of __________________________ The Prime Meridian is a line of _________________________ Give an example of relative location ___________________________ Give and example of absolute location _________________________ There are ________ continents _______________________________________________________________________________________ There are ________ oceans ___________________________________________________ To answer these questions, use ISN and reference Atlas in the beginning of the book and book pgs 13-20

9. 8 Land form dictionary( use RA36) Volcano- an opening in the earth’s surface through which gases and lava escape. (Ex: Mt. St. Helens) Archipelago- a group of islands (ex. Philippines) Delta- a triangular deposit of soil at the mouth of a river. (Ex. Mississippi river delta) Glacier- a thick sheet of ice that moves slowly across land ( ex. Alaska) Mountain- a place where two tectonic plate collide and push up the earth. ( ex. Himalayas)

10. 9 ( use RA36) Land form dictionary Oasis- a region in a desert that is fertile because it is near a river or a stream. ( ex. In a desert) Desert-a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all (ex. Sahara) Island-a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. (ex. Cuba) Canyon-a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it. ( ex. Grand Canyon) Cataract-a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size. ( ex. Victoria Falls)

11. 10 ( use RA36) Land form dictionary Peninsula-an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. ( ex. Florida) Strait-a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water ( ex. Strait of Gibralter) Isthmus-a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land. ( ex. Isthmus of Panama) Plateau- A raised area of relatively flat land (ex. Plateau of Tibet) Plain- a large flat area of land that usually does not have many trees. ( ex. Serengeti)

12. 11 Warm Up for week of 9/6 Mon9/5- Holiday Tues9/6- Give an example of an Isthmus Wed 9/7 Thurs 9/8 Fri 9/9 Today’s instructions • Warm up ISN 11 • Lat/ Long activity ISN 12 • Using lines to draw a state ISN 13 • What will they be? ( ISN 14) • Closure activity 1) Test next Monday 2) Open House Thursday 9/9

13. Closing Activity 1 ticket sentence stems • an example movement is______________ • an example of Region is __________ • Honduras is on the _____________ continent. 2 ticket sentence stems • the difference between modify and adapt is _____________ • the three types of Maps are _______, _______, and ______ • The Ocean on the east coast of the US is the ___________ 3 ticket sentence stems • The Prime Meridian goes through _______ • 2 continents entirely in the southern hemisphere are _______ • Mt Everest is on what continent? _________________