GEOGRAPHY

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GEOGRAPHY

• What do you know?

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Geography

• The study of people, their
• environment, and their resources

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What type of map illustrates boundaries of
countries?

• Political Map

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What type of map measures elevations and physical
features?

• Physical or topographic map

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Can you name all 7 continents?
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Continents

• North America
• South America
• Antarctica
• Africa
• Europe
• Asia
• Australia/Oceania

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What continents are the following countries
located in?

• China ?
• United States ?
• Rwanda ?
• Cambodia ?
• Brazil ?
• France ?
• India ?
• Russia ?

• Asia
• North America
• Africa
• Asia
• South America
• Europe
• Asia
• Europe/Asia

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So what about hemispheres?

• Throughout global studies, especially next year
  youll hear phrases like
• wanted to westernize their country
• get rid of any western influence
• Are we talking about cowboys?

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• NO WAY!

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We are talking about the western hemisphere
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Who can give me an official definition of
longitude or latitude?
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• Latitude
• Imaginary parallel lines that run east to west
  but measure the distance north or south of the
  equator

• Longitude
• Imaginary parallel lines that run north to south
  but measure the distance east or west of the
  prime meridian

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More Great Geography Terms

• Archipelago
• A chain of islands
• Examples
• Japan
• Indonesia

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Subcontinent

• A mass of land that juts out from the main land
• Example India

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Africa Geography

• Savanna grassy plain
• Steppe sparse, dry grassland
• Rain forest
• Desert Sahara
• Mediterranean

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Monsoons

• Seasonal winds summer monsoons bring heavy rain
• India
• Can be good or bad?
• Why?

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• Geography
• The study of people, their environment, and their
  resources

• Climate
• The weather of an area measured over a long
  period of time

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WHAT IF

• you won a free vacation anywhere in the world
  where would you go? Who would you take with you?
  Why would you go there? Tell me something about
  its climate.

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Now the fun begins!

• You will each receive a world map with an
  instructions sheet.
• Work with a partner to label both sides of the
  map.
• You will have to share atlases.
• Colored pencils are at the front of the room!