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Maps Ancient Civ.
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Geography Warm-Up #1 – What is geography? – Why is it important that we study geography in Ancient Civ.?
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Five Themes of Geography 1.Location 2.Regions 3.Place 4.Movement 5.Interaction
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Location Answers the question: “Where?” 2 types of locations: – Absolute: exact address – Relative: where something is in reference to another
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Regions Areas that share at least one common feature Examples of regions: a. Countries, states, cities, politics b. Climate and culture What is Hawaii’s region?
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Place Identifies the natural and human features that make each place different from another Examples of features: landforms, climate, plants, animals, people, language or culture
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Movement and interaction Movement – Answers the question: “How do people, goods and ideas move from place to place?” Interaction – Relationship between people and the environment
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Homework Read pagesM4 and M5 and complete worksheet
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Warm-Up 1. List the 5 different themes of geography and briefly describe TWO of them.themes of geography
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Latitude and Longitude Latitude is: – The most famous example is the – One degree of latitude represents about a distance of Longitude is: – What is the
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Warm-up Read pageM8-M9. 1.Describe each of the following briefly: 1.Compass rose 2.Key 3.Scale 4.Locator globe
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Using Maps
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Different Types of Maps Political Maps (M10) Physical Maps(M11) Special-Purpose Maps – Climate – Language Human migration Land-use
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What type maps are these?
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Maps continued
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