List today’s date in the left column of your composition

notebook, then using the book under your desk, answer the following

question:

What is Social

Studies?

List today’s date in the left column of your composition

notebook, then using the book under your desk, answer the following

questions:

1. What is Geography? 2.

What is

History?

List today’s date in the left column of your composition notebook, then using the book under your desk, answer the following questions:

1. What is Culture? 2. What is

Government?

3. What is

Economics?

What are the Five

Themes of Geography

?

Re-create & complete the following chart:

Social Studies

EconomicsGovernment

Region Place MovementHuman

Environment Interaction

Location

Social Studies

History Culture Geography

Define:Absolute Location

Relative Location

No Warm Up today.

Silently study until class

begins.

Define:canal deltaplateau lake

tributary hillmountain

harbor

peninsulariver

On the very last page of your Composition

Notebook, write today’s date in the margin and answer the following

question.

How does physical geography affect the way people

live?

Name three salt water bodies of water and three

fresh water bodies of water.

Salt Water Fresh Water

Name three salt water bodies of water and three

fresh water bodies of water.

Salt Water Fresh Water

Ocean

Gulf

Sea

Channel

Bay

River

Lake

Sources

Streams

Glaciers

Assuming people live on your island…

How does the physical geography of your island affect the people who live

there?

In the back of your composition notebook, answer the following

question.

How can a school counselor support students in middle school? Please be specific!

1

2

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5

6

7

A

B

C D

E

F

In the front of your composition book, use a Venn Diagram to compare &

contrast maps & globes.

Maps Globes

In the front of your composition book, use a Venn Diagram to compare &

contrast maps & globes.

Maps Globes

•Easy to carry

•Distorted

•Can be more detailed

•Flat, 2-D

•Show relative location of specific places

•Show directions

•Difficult to carry

•More accurate regarding shape, size & location

•Not as detailed

•Round, 3-D

• At what degrees would you find the following:– North Pole– Arctic Circle– Tropic of Cancer– Equator– Tropic of Capricorn– Antarctic Circle– South Pole– Prime Meridian

•What continents does the equator pass through?–What would the climate be like around the equator?

•What British city does the prime meridian pass through?–Why is this important?