Directions: Look at and interpret the map above. Then answer the questions. 1. What is the title of this map?2. Look at the Map Key. What information do you think this map is telling us?3. Based on the information provided, what are the names of some countries that

are good to be born in? Bad to be born in?4. What surprises you or what do you find interesting from this map?

Do Now 9/3 Article of the Week #2Title: World Map

Map Key

U.S.A.

Canada

Australia

Iceland

Russia

China

IndiaMexico

Brazil

Kazakhstan

Angola

Nigeria

Kenya

EgyptAlgeria

Indonesia

Norway

Japan

Venezuela

New Zealand

ChileSouth Africa

Do Now 9/4

1. What city is located approximately 35ᵒN and 90ᵒW?2. What city is located approximately at 25ᵒN and 80ᵒW?3. What is the latitude and longitude of Philadelphia?4. Between which lines of latitude is the continental U.S. located? (Not including AL and HW)5. Between which lines of longitude is the continental U.S. located?

Do Now 9/5

Directions: Look at the map to answer the following questions.1. What are the 2 largest mountain ranges in the U.S.?2. What are the 7 largest rivers in the U.S.?3. What two oceans border the U.S?4. What are the names of the five lakes in Northeast U.S.?5. Is a map of physical or human characteristics? Is this showing political or physical regions? (Use your

foldable if you have to.)

Do Now 9/6

1. Look at this map of the World Upside-Down. Explain what you see, what sticks out to you, and what you find interesting.

2. Why do you think we do not normally see maps this way?3. Based on this map, how does the United States compare to other

countries?

Five Themes of Geography Foldable Rubric

Five Themes of Geography

PAGE 2 -3 in textbook• Human-Environment Interaction• Location• Movement• Place• Region

Physical characteristics of geography influence the human characteristics of

geography.Think about it.

GEOGRAPHY/GEOGRAPHIC

• related to land, land use, natural resources, and the environment

• the study of people, place, and environment focusing on the earth’s surface and the processes that shape it

HUMAN/ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

• related to how people adapt their lives to some environmental conditions

LocationDescribes where a place is

Relative Location:• The description of a place in

relation to another.

Absolute Location:• The exact location of a place

using lines of longitude and latitude.

ABSOLUTE LOCATION

MovementDescribes the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

– Migration – movement of people– Trade – movement of things and goods– Cultural diffusion – movement of ideas

Migration

Trade

Cultural Diffusion

Directions:For each type of movement, illustrate a specific and unique example.

RegionDescribes an area that has its own unifying characteristics.

Political Boundaries Physical Boundaries

RegionDescribes an area that has its own unifying characteristics.

Political Boundaries Physical Boundaries Type of Region OUR Region Capital? Leader?

World EARTH no! no!

Hemisphere Western Hemisphere

no! no!

Continent North America no! no!

Country United States of America

Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama

State North Carolina Raleigh Governor Pat McCroy

County Mecklenburg no! no!

City Charlotte no! Mayor – Anthony Foxx

Place Describes an area in terms of its physical and human

characteristics

Physical Characteristics: Describe the natural environment of a place

Human Characteristics: Describe the people of a place (past and present)

How do the PHYSICAL characteristics of a place influence the HUMAN characteristics of a place?

Place Describes an area in terms of its physical and human

characteristicsPhysical Characteristics: Describe the natural environment of a place

Human Characteristics: Describe the people of a place (past and present)

How do the PHYSICAL characteristics of a place influence the HUMAN characteristics of a place?

Examples:• Physical Features:

• Forest • Water – oceans, • Mountains • Beach• desert

• Weather and climate:• Hot/cold• Dry/wet(humid)

• Vegetation/Environment:• Animal life:

• Birds• Ocean life

Examples:• Human-made features:

• Buildings• Bridges• House• Roads• Railroads• technology

• What life is like:• Population Distribution:

• City – urban high population• Country – rural low population

Pg. 17 North Carolina Geography

• Page 17 of ISN• HOMEWORK: Answer the following question:• How do the physical characteristics of the 3

different regions in North Carolina affect the following human characteristics:– Who lives/has lived in each region– What the economy is– About how many people live there/population

World Politically

World Physically

Map #1

Map #2

The 3 Regions of North Carolina

Coastal

Piedmont

Mountains

The 3 Regions of North Carolina

CharlotteAsheville

Wilmington

RaleighDurham

Winston-SalemGreensboro

Fayetteville

Where is North Carolina?