1. Earth’s Features

2. Bell Ringer 10/11/17
What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
We interact with the environment in 3 ways. What are they?
What 3 things move from one place to another?

3. Landforms Natural features of the Earth’s surface
Classified by type to help people locate them

4. Continents 1. Asia – largest 2. Australia – smallest
7 large landmasses
1. Asia – largest
2. Australia – smallest
Some people consider Europe and Asia to be one continent (Eurasia)
1. divided by the Ural Mountains

6. Bell Ringer 8/10/17 What is a peninsula? What is a archipelago?
What is a plateau?
List each continent and ocean.

7. Major landforms
Mountains – highest landform, steep slopes with a peak or summit
Hills - lower than mountains, more rounded
Plateaus – higher than surrounding land, usually has one steep side (table top)
Plains – flat or gently rolling lands
1. Coastal plains have lower elevations
2. Interior plains have higher elevations
Peninsula – piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Florida)
Archipelago – a group or chain of islands (Hawaii)
Continental Shelf – underwater extension of a continent

8. Mountains highest landform, steep slopes with a peak or summit

9. Hills lower than mountains, more rounded

10. Plateaus higher than surrounding land, usually has one steep side (table top)

11. Plains Flat or gently rolling lands 1
Plains Flat or gently rolling lands Coastal plains have lower elevations Interior plains have higher elevations

12. Peninsula Piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Florida)

13. Archipelago A group or chain of islands (Hawaii)

14. Valley

15. Water Saltwater Most of the Earth’s water is salty. Oceans 1. Pacific
2. Atlantic
3. Indian
4. Arctic
Seas – bodies of salt water smaller than oceans

16. Water Continued Freshwater
Lake – body of water surrounded by land
Stream – body of water flowing through land
1. Combine to form rivers
2. Rivers combine to form major waterways
Groundwater – freshwater that lies beneath the surface
1. main source comes from rain and melted snow
3% of world’s water is fresh
2% trapped in glaciers
.5% is groundwater
.5% rivers and lakes

17. Glaciers

19. Earth’s Resources

20. Managing resources Renewable resources – can replace themselves
1. plants and animals
Nonrenewable – can’t be replaced
1. iron and fossil fuels
Recycle – to reuse but can’t replace
Protecting
1. crop rotation
2. conservation

21. Distribution of resources
Not distributed evenly
Influences how countries relate to each other
Scarcity has lead to trade
1. Japan – imports raw material sells finished products
Imports – what a country brings in
Exports – what a country sends out

22. Map Basics
Compass Rose

23. Bell Ringer 10/12/17
What is the continental shelf? Why is it important?
What is a peninsula? How do you think this shape affects a country?
Describe the hydrologic cycle.

24. Summary Assignment: Create an Island
Using the maps on the walls as guides, complete the following:
Draw an Island
Title: name your island (should be based around a theme)
At least 20 landforms including the name of each.
Legend with symbols/labels
Latitude/Longitude
Compass Rose
Full Color