1. Create your own country project
Final Exam Grade- worth 200 points!!!

2. Maps

3. Political Map
Shows boundaries within a country. It represents the territories, boundaries, and capital, and major cities.

4. Physical Map
Shows in addition to countries borders, major cities and significant bodies of water, physical maps indicate the location of landforms like deserts, mountains, and plains.

5. Natural Disaster
A major event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, blizzards, droughts. and tsunamis.

6. Environmental Issues
Harmful aspects of human activity on the environment; includes acid rain, over mining, nuclear issues, deforestation, overgrazing, desertification, global warming, air pollution and water pollution.

7. Government & Economy

8. Democracy: any system where the people rule the government.
Autocracy: government in which the power and authority to rule are in the hands of a single individual. Ex.: Dictator, King or Queen
Democracy: any system where the people rule the government.
Adolf Hitler-Dictator of Germany
Oligarchy: any system of government in which a small group holds the power. The group usually gets its power from wealth, military control, family ties.
Abraham Lincoln used democracy when he said “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Abdullah King of Saudi Arabia

9. Cultural Traits

10. What do colors and symbols stand for?
RED is for hardiness and valour
WHITE is for purity and innocence
BLUE is for vigilance, perseverance and justice

11. Rubric