Transcript monday Jan 05 - worldgeographycylakes

WELCOME BACK!!!!
Copy this down!!!!
Fall Semester Exam Schedule
• Jan. 8: SFA TEST!!!!! Exemption Card Due in
Admin Red and Admin Silver
• Jan. 9-12 Semester Exam Review
• Jan. 13: 6th Period Exam
• Jan. 14: 1st and 7th Period Exam
• Jan. 15: 2nd and 3rd Period Exam
• Jan. 16: 4th and 5th Period Exam (Early Release
for Students at 11:30am)
• Jan. 19: Student Holiday aka NO SCHOOL!!!!
• Jan. 20: Second Semester Begins
FALL EXEMPTION
REQUIREMENTS
• You must meet all of these requirements for you to exempt an
exam…..
• 9th and 10th graders can only exempt 1 exam in the fall semester
• Requirements:
1. Cleared from the Fines and Fees List
2. Must have at least an 80 average for the semester
3. Must have no more than 3 absences all semester (yes that is per
class)
4. Can not have an I or a U in conduct
5. Have not been suspended from school
6. Have not been sent to ALC or alternative schooling within the
semester
7. Teacher must sign off on your exemption card
8. Must turn in the exemption card to Admin Red or Admin Silver (your
counselor) by no later than 3:30pm on Jan. 8
YOU NEED A
BLANK SHEET OF
PAPER!!!!
Economic Sectors
• In the corner of your paper, copy down this
1)Label each sector in order
pyramid:
*Manage workers &
Owners of Business
* Professional Jobs
&/or Selling a
product
* Make/ Fix a product
from the natural
resources that were
gathered
* Gathering natural
resources from the
Earth
QUARTNARY
TERTIARY
SECONDARY
PRIMARY
from the bottom to the top.
(HINT: Quartnary,
Secondary, Tertiary,
Primary)
2) Write a small definition
for each sector.
3) Give 2 examples for each
sector.
Mind Map It!
Draw Your Best USA In The Middle Of Your Paper
TERTIARY
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY
SECONDARY
QUARTNARY
PRIMARY
TERTIARY
PRIMARY
TERTIARY
QUARTNARY
SECONDARY
QUARTNARY
Let’s Label
Where Each
Economic
Sector Can
Be Found
QUARTNARY
PRIMARY
QUARTNARY
TERTIARY
TERTIARY
PRIMARY
Physical Geography That Helps
The US
• Draw a box at the BOTTOM CORNER of your paper.
• Name the box: ADVANTAGES OF THE US
• List some physical geography that helps the US become wealthy…
1. FERTILE LAND helps the USA grow a lot of crops
2. Various CLIMATES help different types of crops to grow and grow
surplus (extra) crops to sell to other countries
3. The MISSISSIPPI RIVER allows trading to occur between the
Midwest industries and the Gulf Coast regions
4. The ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS allows the United States to
trade to countries in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Label the Physical Advantages on your Mind Map
of the US
PACIFIC
OCEAN
CLIMATES
CLIMATES
FERTILE LANDS
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
FERTILE LANDS
CLIMATES
FERTILE LANDS
CLIMATES
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
BREAK OF BULK
• Draw a box at the BOTTOM of your mind map.
• In the Box, Define BREAK OF BULK, INBOUND
& OUTBOUND
Break of Bulk: When the type of transportation is changed
when transporting a good/ product to a given place.
Inbound: When something is coming INTO an area
PULL FACTORS
Outbound: When something is LEAVING an area
PUSH FACTORS
•
•
Draw a symbol on what form of transportation a product would come into Houston
on from the Gulf of Mexico.....(Think Port of Houston)
Draw a symbol on what form of transportation a product would to be transported
on from Houston to Dallas.
Truck
Cargo
Ship
Mother Nature is Sneaky….
• What kind of physical geography most
commonly can affect the transportation of
goods from one place to another place?
• WEATHER
• How can we plan for weather conditions in
different regions of the USA?
• Look at Climate Patterns with a
CLIMOGRAPH
CLIMOGRAPHS
• On the BACK of your
paper, write your own
definition for a
climograph.
• CLIMOGRAPH: a graph
that shows the amount of
precipitation and average Temperature
temperature for each month
in a region.
Precipitation
What Are the Similarities and Differences
Between The Three Climographs?
Make Your Own Climograph
•
•
On the back of your paper, copy down the climograph data and make a
climograph
Temp.
HINT: Need 3 axis (Temp, Precipitation, Months)
Precipitation
Average Temperature and Precipitation for
Houston, Texas in 2007
Months
Jan
.
Feb Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept Oct
Nov
Dec
Temp.
(F)
63 67 74 79 86 91 94 93 89 82 73 65
Prec.
(inch)
4.3 3.0 3.2 3.5 5.1 6.8 4.4 4.5 5.6 5.3 4.5 3.8