Transcript Geography Narrative

• Good morning. Please take out your
Latin America Physical Geography
notes and two clean sheets of paper.
Geography Narrative
MISSION
• You will be presented with a series of slides.
Your mission is to read each slide and answer
the question. Each question will lead you
through an outline that you will use to create
a personal narrative that includes Latin
America geography concepts. You will have
two minutes to read each slide and answer
the question. Your journey begins now…
REMEMBER - DANGER
• At the conclusion of this exercise,
all of your answers will make
sense and must logically flow
from one choice to the next.
1. Choose a country
• Latin America was explored by Spanish,
French, Portuguese, Dutch, and English
sailors. Choose one of these countries.
What country are you from and what is
your ship’s name?
2. Your path
• Your ship sets sail and travels westward toward
the “Americas”. Your ship can not carry enough
supplies so you stop and refill at the Canary
Islands. You then proceed. You are concerned
about one place in particular on your path. This
area has little wind, and you want to move
through it as fast as possible. What is this area
called that you are most concerned about?
– Intertropical Convergence Zones, also known as
Doldrums
3. Your destination
• Latin America is divided into four geographic
regions – Mexico, the Caribbean, Central
America, and South America. Which region
are you sailing toward? (Here’s where your
choices start to match up….if you chose that
you are from Portugal, then you can not
choose Mexico as your point of destination!)
4. Arrival
• You notice that the climate is quite
different that what you are used to in
Europe. Latin America has the
following climate types – Arid,
Tropical Wet, and Tropical Wet and
Dry. What type of climate are you
experiencing?
5. Vegetation
• Because of the unique new climate,
you encounter new vegetation.
Vegetation in Latin America is
rainforest, grassland, and desert.
What type of vegetation is around
you?
6. Landscape
• Depending on where you are in Latin
America, you will experience different
types of landscapes and topography. You
might be in the Amazon Basin, the
Brazilian Highlands, the Isthmus of
Panama, the Sierra Madres, or tropical
beaches. Describe the landscape around
you.
7. Natural Disasters
• After being in this new land, you and
your crew experience a natural
disaster. Disasters include
earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes,
flooding, wildfires, mudslides, etc.
What natural disaster does your crew
experience?
8. Seasons
• You remain in this new area for 6
weeks. It took you 9 weeks to travel
to this new land. You hope to
experience a seasonal change as it
was winter in Europe when you left.
What season have you now
transitioned into?
9. You travel by land
• You and your crew travel by foot
across the land from one ocean to
the next. Which were you on when
you landed, which ocean did you
travel to? Describe how the
landscape changed as you traveled
from one ocean to the next.
• Now, go back and review these answers.
You are to write a personal narrative
(approximately 1 page long) that
describes your journey and includes
these answers in your story. You may use
your notes to give you more details.
Conclude your story with some type of
crazy, imaginative ending.