1. 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

2. 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

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 5 themes of geography

7. 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

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 4 Natural Regions of Texas

12. 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?

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

14. 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.

15. 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.