1. BR: T1D6
Create a quick map (of your choice), showing at least 4 different parts / components that we often see on maps; label each one Note: your Geography Theme Posters are instead due D8, not today (You’re Welcome!)
Wait to show the ”Parts of the map” until after they attempt to do it themselves 

2. Ch. 2.2 Landforms and Water Resources
World Geography
Ch. 2.2 Landforms and Water Resources

3. Types of Landforms
Our Earth has many different landforms, including mountains, plains, valleys, rivers, etc. And many of these landforms appear below the ocean as well. On land, the highest landforms are mountains, ranging from several 1000 feet high to 20,000. The world’s tallest is Mt. Everest, at +29,000 feet tall. That’s about 5.5 miles high! VID, V NG Hills meanwhile are shorter, more rounded, and often older. Between hills and mountains are valleys, or depressions, which can be all shapes & sizes
Whenever the “VID” links show up, play those, unless you are really running short on time. You should have time to play all of them 

4. Other Landforms
Flatlands meanwhile are areas that are…flat. Some are low, often nearby the ocean or along rivers, and these are called plains. Examples: Great Plains of the American Midwest; Savannah in Africa, etc.
The other type are elevated, and are usually known as plateaus.

5. Water and Landforms
These landforms are usually defined by their relative relationship to other landforms or bodies of water.
For example, an isthmus is a narrow strip of land with water on two sides. Panama is a good example.
A peninsula, on the other hand, is similar, except it has water on 3 sides. An example would be Italy.
A body of land that is smaller than a continent, and completely surrounded by water is known as an island.

6. Under the Oceans
Off the coast of each continent lies a plateau called the continental shelf. These stretch for many miles underwater, then the bottom drops off sharply into the depths below. LINK
Meanwhile, in the ocean there are often high mountains that line the edges of the tectonic plates pulling apart. The deep cuts in the ocean floor, where these pull apart are called trenches. The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest, plunging over 35,000 ft / 11,000 m. below sea level (7 miles) VID

7. Our Water Planet
People live all over our planet, but the one constant that they need? Water. Without it, we couldn’t grow crops, or survive very long for that matter. It is crucial to our survival.

8. Water, Water Everywhere
It’s a good thing that we can find water all across the surface of our planet. Whether it is in the form of streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. Perhaps it is in a different form, like water vapor, or ice, but it is here.
97 percent of the water in the world is found in the oceans, as salt water. Our oceans all connect together, though they have smaller features, like bays, or gulfs (the inverse of a peninsula). LINK
Sometimes two are connected by a narrow strip of water, called a channel aka strait. LINK
Difference? Channels can be manmade.

9. Freshwater
Of all the water on Earth, only 3% of it is actually freshwater. Most of that is frozen in the polar regions. Some is also groundwater, which filters or percolates down into the soil. Often, that groundwater will collect into aquifers, which are layers of porous rock that hold water like storage tanks. Ogallala Aquifer VID
A small percentage of water is found in lakes and rivers. Rivers are long, flowing bodies of water with a source (often a spring, or mountains), and a mouth, or ending where they join the ocean, a lake, etc. A lake is an inland body of water. Lake Baikal VID

10. Rivers & More
Rivers, especially the larger ones, have many tributaries, or smaller streams and rivers that feed into them. The Amazon for instance has dozens of smaller rivers that feed into it. It is arguably the longest river in the world (competing with the Nile), but by far holds much more water: Amazon River
Many rivers have deltas, or giant fans at the mouths of where they empty. As the water slows, it drops of sediments it has been carrying, fanning out and creating an area that is rich in nutrients, while building up the fan-like structure we call a delta.

11. The Water Cycle
One unique part about the water on earth is that it is constantly renewing itself, in a cycle that we call the water cycle.
It basically works like this: Water is in some body, say, a lake. The heat of the sun causes evaporation, and it becomes water vapor.
That vapor circulates in the air, until eventually it cools. When it does, then condensation occurs, and the vapor begins to return to a liquid state, first as tiny water droplets, usually around particles of dust, forming clouds.
Eventually, if a cloud gets enough moisture, that water falls to the ground as precipitation, like rain, snow, etc. Finally, collection occurs, as the rain, snow, etc. melts, and collects in rivers, lakes, etc…and the cycle begins again!

13. HW:
Any classtime left over is for you to finish your Geography Theme Poster