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1. How is it possible for oceans to have landforms? 2. What are the major continental landforms? 3. How are continental and oceanic landforms the same? Different?
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Five Themes of GeographyDate
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1. Location : where are things located
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Where are thing located Location means either an exact position using latitude or longitude, or a description of a place in relation to places around it
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Five Themes of GeographyDate 1. Location : where are things located 2. Place: what is a particular location like?
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What is a particular location like? Place describes physical characteristics such as mountains or rivers, as well as human characteristics such as the people who live there
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How are places similar or different? Regions have physical or human characteristics that unite them and make them different from or similar to other regions
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How do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another? Movement of people, goods, and ideas changes places and regions and the people who live there
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How do people relate the physical world? Humans adapt to their environment and change elements of it.
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#4: Movement
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5. Human-Environment Interaction: how do people relate to the physical world? Push/Pull Factors
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Reasons for why people migrate from one place to another. Push Factor – reasons why someone moves out of an area Pull Factor– reasons for why someone moves to a new area
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Vocabulary Date Push Factor: reasons why someone moves out of an area Pull Factor: reasons for why someone moves to a new area
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Population Pressure Poor infrastructure Poor Job offers Bad education Poor Health care Poor (ecological) environment Natural Disasters Improvement in the standard of living Better health care Better employment opportunities Higher wages Better education Better future options
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An obstacle preventing people from moving from one place to another. What might be some examples of a Barriers to Movement?
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Vocabulary Date Push Factor: reasons why someone moves out of an area Pull Factor: reasons for why someone moves to a new area Barriers to Movement: An obstacle preventing people from moving from one place to another
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Himalayan Mountains Mississippi River Sahara Desert Grand Canyon Dead Sea
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#1: Location
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a measure of distance north or south of the equator.
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An imaginary circle around the Earth that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres
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the position of a point on Earth’s surface east or west, from the prime meridian to 180°
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0° longitude line running through Greenwich, England.
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http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms_wcg_aaa_nc/book_home.htm?state =NC http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms_wcg_aaa_nc/book_home.htm?state =NC
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Page A20-A21 Longitude of Philadelphia, PA – 75°W Latitude of Philadelphia, PA -- 40°N Latitude of Albuquerque, NM -- 35°N Longitude of Albuquerque, NM -- 107°W
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Latitude THEN Longitude
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Everyday, your warm up will be your Daily Geography. You will have 5 minutes to complete this warm-up, starting at the bell. You should be SILENT, while working on Daily Geography You will be graded on COMPLETENESS and writing in COMPLETE SENTENCES You will be graded everyday on these two criteria
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Contiguous – sharing an edge or boundary; touching Legend (key) – a list that explains the symbols on a map Political map – a map that shows human-made features and boundaries such as cities, highways, and countries
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Scale allows us to measure distance on a map To measure scale, we first need to know the distance from point A to point B on the map For this you can use either a ruler, or simply a piece of paper Second, we need to use the scale provided on the map, to measure the distance, and convert it into miles (or feet, etc)
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