Pre-ap Monday 8/29 Pick up the 3 sheets on your way in Keep Unit Guide out; Put Vocab away Write “Planner” on Monday box on Warm-up sheet Fill out your planner Unit 1 Essential Vocab due Friday 9/2 5 Themes Post Cards due Friday 9/2 (will be passed out later this week) Get out spiral notebook Put the date on the first page Title: Unit 1 Notes Part 1: Texas Geography

OL Monday 8/29 Pick up the 3 sheets on your way in Keep Unit Guide out; Put Vocab away Write “Planner” on Monday box on Warm-up sheet Fill out your planner Unit 1 Essential Vocab due Friday 9/2 Get out spiral notebook Put the date on the first page Title: Unit 1 Notes Part 1: Texas Geography

UNIT 1 Notes Part 1: Texas Geography Essential Question: What are the 5 themes of geography?

What is an era? What is an era? A fixed period of time characterized by particular events, features, developments, or people. Why do historians divide history into eras? Historians divide history into eras in order to create blocks of time that have similar characteristics in order to organize information about the past.

Era of Natural Texas and Its People TEKS 1A Identify the major eras in Texas history, describe their defining characteristics, and explain why historians divide the past into eras, including Natural Texas and its People; Age of Contact; Spanish Colonial; Mexican National; Revolution and Republic; Early Statehood; Texas in the Civil War and Reconstruction; Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads; Age of Oil; Texas in the Great Depression and World War II; Civil Rights and Conservatism; and Contemporary Texas

5 themes of geography

What is “Location”? Location answers the question “Where is it” Absolute Location – The exact location of a place on the earth’s surface Relative Location – The location of a place in relation to other places

Think Pair Share How has Texas’ relative location to Mexico affected our culture? How has Texas’ relative location to the Gulf of Mexico affected our climate?

What is “Place”? Place answers the question “What is it like?” Place refers to the physical and human characteristics of a location Physical Characteristics include: Landforms, Climate, plants, animals Human Characteristics include: Language, Religion, Architecture, Music, Politics, ways of life

What is “Region”? Region answers the question “How does it compare to other places?” Geographers divide areas into regions in order to better study them. **What concept does this sound like? Regions are places that are united based on common characteristics (like physical and human)

4 Natural Regions of Texas

What is “Human-Environment Interaction”? Human-Environment interaction answers the question “How do humans react to their environment and how does it affect them?” In other words, how to we use, adapt to, or change our surroundings? What are some examples?

Examples Pollution Deforestation Hurricanes/Tornadoes Farming Damming Rivers to make lakes Irrigation

What is “Movement”? Movement - How people move through the environment Cultural Diffusion - new ideas brought by migrating people become widely accepted. Examples? People bring ideas and goods with them when they move from one place to another.

Roy Bedichek He was an author and speaker; considered a “Naturalist” who traveled and documented the Texas landscape for over 30 years. Died in 1959.