Transcript ISN PP 1st progress

Welcome
To Ms. Marko’s class, please sit in your
assigned seat.
Student Name
World Geography
1st period
Ms. Marko
2016-2017
World Map ( Do not write Oceania or
Southern, or label North or South on Oceans)
Prime Meridian
1
Geography key terms
2
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 themes of geography
3
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 )
Today’s instructions
1) Get ISN and sit in assigned seat.
2) 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.
3) We will do an application of 5 themes Worksheet
which will be glued on ISN 5
4) We will open our Green Textbooks to page RA 2-3 to
get acquainted with map skills.
Warm Up for week of 8/ 29
4
Mon 8/29- Give an example of Human Environment
Interaction.
Tues 8/30- 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
1. Warm up
Island?
*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
2. Landform dictionary
3. Finish Map Skills put
2nd page on ISN 7
4. Closure activity
place
location
region
movement
Human environment interaction
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? _________________________________
To answer these questions,
11. Trucks and cars are what theme? _________________________________________
use ISN and reference Atlas
12. parks and garbage dumps are what theme? _____________________________
13. people and cultures are what theme? ____________________________________
in the beginning of the
14. Forest and continents are what theme? ___________________________________
book and book pgs 13-20
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 ___________________________________________________
Land form dictionary ( use RA36) 8
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)
Land form dictionary ( use RA36) 9
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)
Land form dictionary
( use RA36)10
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)
Warm Up for week of 9/6
11
Mon 9/5- Holiday
Tues 9/6- Give an example of an Isthmus
Wed 9/7
Thurs 9/8
Fri 9/9
1) Test next Monday
2) Open House Thursday 9/9
Today’s instructions
1. Warm up ISN 11
2. Lat/ Long activity ISN 12
3. Using lines to draw a state ISN 13
4. What will they be? ( ISN 14)
5. Closure activity
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? _________________