1. World - Robinson Projection Oceans & Continents
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5000 km
2500 miles
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2. World - Robinson ProjectionA
World - Robinson Projection
Oceans & Continents
Name:
Date:
Map Quiz
Arctic Ocean
North America
Europe
Asia
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Pacific Ocean
South America
Indian Ocean
Australia
5000 km
2500 miles
Antarctica
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3. Chapter 1 The Geographer’s Toolbox
Geography
Chapter 1
The Geographer’s Toolbox

4. Enter room, and take assigned seat quietly
Enter room, and take assigned seat quietly. Put your name, date, and period on the top right-hand side of a piece of paper. Do NOT write in red. At the end of the period, turn your paper into tray #1 on your way out of the room.

5. Geography: Chapter 1 Vocabulary (Chapter 1 Sec. 1)
1.1 spatial thinking
significant
geographic patterns
Geographic Information System (GIS)
1.2 categorize
absolute location
Global Positioning System (GPS)
relative location
1.3 region
continent
terrace

6. Bell Ringer Copy questions and underline answers.
Chapter 1 Section 1
Bell Ringer
Copy questions and underline answers.

7. 1.1.1 Thinking Spatially
Spatial Thinking—thinking about the space on Earth’s surface, including where it is located and why it is there.

8. 1.1.1 Thinking Spatially
Geographic Patterns--similarities among different places; example cities located near bodies of water might use the water as a way of shipping.

9. 1.1.1 Thinking Spatially
GIS—computer based geographic information systems. Geographers create maps and analyze patterns using many layers of data.

10. The Five Themes of Geography
1.1.2 Themes and Elements
The Five Themes of Geography
1. Location: A way of locating places.
Absolute location exact point where a place is found; geographers study places and the people who live there; 45 degrees North, 9 degrees East describes an absolute location.

11. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
 Global Positioning System satellite system used to determine absolute location.

12. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
Relative location—a place in relation to other places. Example: The Great Wall is located near Beijing in northern China.

13. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
2. Place—includes the characteristics of a location. Example—The Grand Canyon has steep rock walls carved over centuries by the Colorado River.

14. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
3. Human-Environment Interaction—how people affect the environment and how the environment affects people—example: dams used to store water

15. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
4. Movement--explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another; example spread of religions around the world.

16. 5. Region--group of places with common characteristics, traits.
1.1.2 Themes and Elements
5. Region--group of places with common characteristics, traits.

17. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
Using the 5 themes of Geography write your biography.
Location: Absolute—Mobile: 30.41°N, 88.02° W
Relative—Southern coast of
Alabama on the west side of Mobile Bay
2. Place: A famous place near Mobile is _________
3. Human-Environment Interaction: How have people
affected the environment?
4. Movement: I have moved several time in my life.
Born Atlanta, GA
Grew up Missouri
Moved to Alabama, & Louisiana
5. Region: Missouri—Midwest
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana--south

18. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements Six Elements:
The World in Special Terms: Tools such as maps to study places on Earth.

19. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
2. Places and Regions: Characteristics of a place and regions

20. 3. Physical Systems--processes on Earth, such as volcanoes.
1.1.2 Themes and Elements
3. Physical Systems--processes on Earth, such as volcanoes.

21. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
4. Human Systems--geographers study the economic life of people from a certain place.

22. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
5. Environment and Society—how humans change the environment and use resources. Ways to work around the challenges of nature-- farmers use irrigation is an example that changes amount of water available. Good results--preservation of water, Harmful results--threaten species, pollution.

23. 1.1.2 Themes and Elements
6. The Uses of Geography—interpret the past, analyze the present, and plan for the future.

24. 1.1.3 World Regions
Region—a group of places with common traits or physical characteristics. Places are linked by trade, culture and other human activities.

25. 1.1.3 World Regions
Continent large landmass; it can be a region; it can contain many smaller regions, or it can be part of a larger region such as the Americas. South America region and continent.

26. 1.1.3 World Regions
Global Perspective: Examples--shifts in currents of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans or how one region affects another, use a global perspective instead of a regional perspective.

27. Enter room, and take assigned seat quietly
Enter room, and take assigned seat quietly. Put your name, date, and period on the top right-hand side of a piece of paper. Do NOT write in red. At the end of the period, turn your paper into tray #1 on your way out of the room.

28. Bell Ringer Copy questions and underline answers.
Chapter 1 Section 2
Bell Ringer
Copy questions and underline answers.

29. Geography: Chapter 1 Vocabulary (Chapter 1 Section 2)
2.1 globe scale
map cartographer
latitude elevation
equator relief
longitude 2.4 projection
prime meridian distort
hemisphere 2.5 theme

30. Locator Globe shows the specific area of the world displayed on a map.
1.2.1
Locator Globe shows the specific area of the world displayed on a map.

31. Latitude lines never touch each other; sometimes call parallels
1.2.1
Latitude lines never touch each other; sometimes call parallels

32. 1.2.1
Equator sits at 0° latitude; runs east and west; longest latitude line; center line of latitude on Earth

33. 1.2.1 Tropic of Cancer 23Degrees North
Tropic of Capricorn 23 Degrees South

34. Longitude line meet the poles.
1.2.1
Longitude line meet the poles.

35. 1.2.1
Longitude measures location east and west, a place’s exact location can be described by identifying the point where lines of latitude and longitude cross.

36. 1.2.1
Prime Meridian is an imaginary line connecting the North Pole and the South Pole; divides the Western Hemisphere from the Eastern Hemisphere

37. 1.2.1
Hemisphere every place on earth is located in either the Northern or Southern hemisphere and also in either the Western or Eastern hemisphere.

38. Compass Rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west.
1.2.1
Compass Rose shows the directions north, south, east, and west.

39. Map Legend explain the meaning of symbols and colors on a map.
1.2.1
Map Legend explain the meaning of symbols and colors on a map.

40. 1.2.1
Symbol map element that represents information on a map such as the location of natural resources.

41. 1.2.2
Large-Scale Map covers a small area but shows many details, such as schools, parks, and street.

42. 1.2.2
A small-scale map covers a large area but includes few details. Example would be a map of the southern portion of Africa.

43. 1.2.3 Political and Physical Maps
Cartographer--map maker; show elevation with color; create different kinds of maps for different purposes.

44. 1.2.3
Political map shows human-created features on Earth’s surface; shows features that humans have created, such as boundaries.

45. 1.2.3
1.2.3
Physical Map shows natural features, such as mountains and rivers Physical maps can also show elevation (height) and relief (change in elevation)

46. 1.2.4 Map Projections The world is a sphere, maps are flat.
Globe
Homolosine projection
The world is a sphere, maps are flat.
Maps distort, or change, shapes, area, distances and directions.

47. Projections Map show Earth’s curved surface on a flat page.
1.2.4
Projections Map show Earth’s curved surface on a flat page.

48. Map Projections
The type of map a cartographer makes depend on the maps purpose.

49. Map Projections
Mercator Projection map projection shows direction accurately, making it useful for navigators.

50. 1.2.5
Thematic Maps: Maps about a specific theme, or topic. Dot Density Map could be used to show the population in and around a city

51. 1.2.5
Point Symbol Map could be used to show the location of oil fields in Texas or wheat farms in Russia.

52. 1.2.5
Unemployment Percentages in 2000
Proportional Symbol Map uses symbols of different sizes to show the size of an event.