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 #2 Title: World Map Map Key U.S.A. Canada Australia Iceland Russia China India Mexico Brazil Kazakhstan Angola Nigeria Kenya Egypt Algeria Indonesia Norway Japan Venezuela New Zealand Chile South 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

Location Describes 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

Movement Describes 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.

Region Describes an area that has its own unifying characteristics. Political BoundariesPhysical Boundaries

Region Describes an area that has its own unifying characteristics. Political BoundariesPhysical Boundaries Type of RegionOUR RegionCapital?Leader? World EARTH no! Hemisphere Western Hemisphere no! Continent North America no! Country United States of America Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama State North Carolina Raleigh Governor Pat McCroy County Mecklenburg 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 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? 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 Charlotte Asheville Wilmington Raleigh Durham Winston-Salem Greensboro Fayetteville

Where is North Carolina?