UNIT ONE

1. You NEED colored pencils today! 2. Pick up a geography worksheet at the door & complete. 3. While you are working, I will come around and check your vocabulary on p. 3-4 in your packet. 4. Notes

 FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY: 1. MOVEMENT 2. REGION 3. LOCATION 4. INTERACTION 5. PLACE

Movement Occurs as people and their ideas go from one place to another.

Reasons for movement: Search for food Look for jobs Trading goods/money Desire to be free Escape religious persecution

Region A geographers way of subdividing the world into small parts for study. This creates an area with its own unifying characteristics.  Examples: physical characteristics, cultural, political, economic features

 HINT: 3 L’s: LOCATION = ______________ & _____________ LATITUDE LONGITUDE

 Relates to the effects that HUMANS have on their environment  This includes: FARMING and irrigation CLEARING LAND MINING Changes in TECHNOLOGY enable humans to have great environmental impacts, both positive and negative

 Human and Physical Characteristics of a location  PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLES: Landforms, Climate, Soil, Animal Life  HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLES: Religion, Language, Transportation

1. You NEED colored pencils today! 2. Open your packet to pages 12 & Grab a textbook and use p. A4 & A5 to label and color your maps.