1. Flip the title of the Canada Map. (it is upside down
Flip the title of the Canada Map. (it is upside down!) It should be in the top right corner, not the bottom right.
Put your name and SS teacher’s name in the top right hand corner.
Get an atlas from the front of the room. Open to page 75.
Draw in and shade the area of the USA (you may add Alaska if you like) gray.
Draw in the Great Lakes and label them.
Color all water blue and label all oceans. Make sure to look at your atlas. DO NOT GUESS!!
Flip map over. Open atlas to page 103.
Color all water blue. Label all oceans.
We will add in the rest of the physical features tomorrow.

2. NBI 4/27/2017 Find one (1) partner you can work well with.
Get a GREEN Geography Alive Textbook.
Read pages
Summarize each blue heading.
Turn your summaries in to the drawer.

3. Warm-Up 4/27/2017 Write in your agenda.
Get your Canada & Australia Maps out.
If you turned them in to Ms. Mulligan, wait PATIENTLY and QUIETLY in your seats and she will hand them to you.

5. Essential Question…… Canadian Geography
What are the major physical features of Canada, and where are they located on a map?

6. CANADA
Location in the World: In the Northern and Western Hemispheres. On the North American continent. Shares border with the USA.

8. Canadian Shield
The shield is a rich source of natural resources located around the Hudson Bay & covering 2/3 of Canada… especially metallic minerals such as iron, nickel, copper, zinc, uranium, gold, silver, platinum and molybdenum.

10. Hudson Bay
Located in Mid. East Canada. Surrounded by Canadian Shield. Connects to Atlantic Ocean.

12. The Great Lakes
5 freshwater lakes shared between USA and Canada.

14. St. Lawrence River
Stretches far into interior of N. America (Canada). Allowed the explorers to get deep into the area during exploration/ colonization times.

15. St. Lawrence River
Today, the river is used as a very important trade route with MANY ports.

18. Rocky Mountains
Stretches over 3,000 miles from New Mexico in SW USA to British Columbia NW Canada. Tourism. Protects from Ocean storms…

21. First & Last Name
SS Teacher & Per #
Arctic
Ocean
World Location: In the Northern and Western Hemispheres. On the North American continent. Shares border with the USA.
Alaska (USA)
Atlantic
Ocean
Rocky
Mtns.
Pacific
Ocean
Hudson Bay
Quebec
Great Plains/ Bread -basket
Canadian Shield
St. Lawrence Riv./ Seaway S. H. O. E.
Great Lakes
U.S.A. M.

22. YOURSELF OVER LOCATIONS IN CANADA!8 2 6 7 1 5 4 3
QUIZ
YOURSELF OVER LOCATIONS IN CANADA!

24. Arctic Ocean
Rocky Mtns.
Atlantic Ocean
Hudson Bay
Pacific Ocean
Province of Quebec
Canadian shield
Great Plains
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
USA

25. AUSTRAL I A

29. Sydney, Australia

30. Ayers Rock
The Outback

32. Australia is made up of six states and two territories.
 The 2 territories are The Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory  

33. Australia is about the size of the United States.
-S & E Hemispheres
-Its own Continent & Country
Australia is about the size of the United States.
18.3 million people live there, about as many people as in New York.

34. Canberra is the capital of Australia.
Unlike other cities in Australia, Canberra is a planned city.

35. Australia’s Geography
Geographic Understandings
SS6G12 The student will be able to locate selected features of Australia.
a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Ayers Rock, and Great Victoria Desert.

36. Australia’s Landscape
Australia is called the “Land Down Under”
Island, country, AND a continent – located in the southeastern hemisphere, south of the equator
Geography of Australia – described as large, semi-arid, dry region with temperate climates in the southeastern coastal areas =never too hot or too cold, only Antarctica receives less rain/ yr.
(like Coastal Rica or US Virgin Islands)

37. Evergreen tree that are can survive in saltwater
Northern Australia has a tropical climate, rain forests, mangrove swamps, grasslands It is the world’s smallest and flattest continent. The Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans surround Australia.
Gondwana Rainforest,
Australia
Evergreen tree that are can survive in saltwater

38. Great Barrier Reef & the Coral Sea
The reef contains the world’s largest collection of coral and a large variety of marine life. There are 400 types of coral, species of fish, and 400 types of mollusks (snails, clams, octopi, and squid), and rare animals including the “sea cow” or dugong, and the large green turtle.
Great Barrier Reef & the Coral Sea

39. Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef lies off Australia’s northeastern coast in the Coral Sea and is the world’s largest coral reef. Coral formations have piled up for millions of years to create a colorful chain that stretches 1,250 miles.
The reef lies a short distance off the northeast coast of Queensland (one of Australia’s states).
A coral reef is a structure formed by the skeletons of small sea animals.

41. The Coral Sea
The Coral Sea is actually part of the Pacific Ocean (and is an important source for the Great Barrier Reef).
The sea lies off the northeast coast of Australia.

48. Outback The Outback is the vast, remote, arid interior of Australia.
The term "the outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are rural with very low populations
Home to the Aborigines- the native peoples of Australia
The air here is dry and hot
The soil around Uluru is bright red

51. Great Victoria Desert
From Ayers Rock, travel southwest into the states of South Australia and Western Australia – there you will enter the Great Victoria Desert.
So, it is located
in southwestern
Australia.

52. Great Victoria Desert (continued)
Great Victoria Desert - receives only 8 inches – 10 inches of rain each year…it never snows
Some grasslands, along with sand hills and salt lakes
Very few Australians live in the Great Victoria Desert because it is too hot and dry.

57. Ayers Rock…aka “Uluru”
Located near the center of the continent of Australia – in the flatlands, in the state called Northern Territory
Huge, reddish sandstone rock towering out of the flatlands – the rock is a monolith (single, large rock sticking out of the Earth…Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, is a monolith)
It is nearly 12 stories tall and almost six miles wide around its base.
The Aborigines (Australia’s native/indigenous peoples) call it “Uluru.”

58. Ayers Rock Ayers Rock is a giant sandstone rock formation.
It lies in central Australia.
Ayers Rock has many waterholes, caves, and springs.
The Aborigines believe Ayers Rock is sacred.

62. Did you know that…
Because of Australia’s location in the Southern Hemisphere, summer begins in December and winter begins in June? (opposite of the USA)
The largest part of Australia consists of semi-arid or dry lands known as the Outback?
In the north, you will find a tropical climate with rain forests, mangrove swamps, grassland, and even more desert?

63. Indian Ocean Great Victoria Desert Pacific Ocean
World Location:
-S & E Hemispheres
-Below Asia
-It’s own Continent & Country
Coral Sea
Great Barrier Reef
Outback
Ayers Rock
Great Victoria Desert
Pacific Ocean