Name:______
Geography Unit Notes
Mr. Davis
Cavalier Social Studies
Consider this: Why do we need to understand GEOGRAPHY in order to understand HISTORY?
I CAN statements: (come back and check off these as we accomplish these tasks)
____ use geographic tools to explain patterns and locations on the Earth. (List five tools we will look at in the space below)
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____ explain how physical features cause people to live where they do. These features include ______, ______, and ______.
____ describe factors that PUSH people to move.
____ describe PULL factors that cause people to move.
____ describe how humans changed their environment to meet their needs.
____ describe how places change using technology, resources, and new knowledge.
____ describe how resources found in a region cause it to change.
The 5 THEMES of Geography:
1. Location: refers to ______.
There are two types of location: ______and ______.
______location uses lines of ______and ______to determine an exact point on the Earth.
ANY POINT ON THE EARTH CAN BE FOUND USING THESE LINES!!!
Bowling Green, KY is located at approximately ______, ______on the Earth.
When writing the coordinates of a location down, the ______ALWAYS comes first. This is measured in ______or ______.
You can use the picture above to get the basics of latitude and longitude—latitudes wrap around the Earth. The Equator is located at 0 degrees latitude, right around the Earth’s waist. The Prime Meridian is located at 0 degrees longitude, and it runs through the observatory in Greenwich, England.
The equator divides the Earth into the ______and ______hemispheres.
The prime meridian divides the Earth into the ______and ______hemispheres.
Bowling Green, Kentucky is located in which two hemispheres? ______and ______.
PRACTICE!
Use the map on the next page to determine the two hemispheres these cities are located:
1. Rio de Janiero, Brazil: ______and ______.
2. Sydney, Australia: ______and ______.
3. Moscow, Russia: ______and ______.
4. London, England: ______and ______.
5. Toronto, Canada: ______and ______.
Now use the map to determine the approximate absolute location (latitude and longitude) of the cities listed below:
1. Beijing, China: ______, ______
2. Cairo, Egypt: ______, ______
3. Buenos Aires, Argentina: ______, ______
4. Los Angeles, USA: ______, ______
5. Rome, Italy: ______, ______
Relative location: refers to a location ______.
For example: Target is located between Wal*Mart and Lowe’s.
OR
Bowling Green is located between Louisville and Nashville.
OR
WEMS is located next to WEHS, and across the street from Hardee’s.
In the space below, describe a location in or around Bowling Green using relative location: ______
2. Place: refers to ______that make one place ______.
Three questions to ask when considering place:
n What is this place like?
n How does it compare with other places?
n What physical and human characteristics make this place different?
Look at the photos on the ActivBoard. What characteristics do you see in the locations shown? Write down physical and human characteristics in the space provided explaining what makes these places stand out.
1. New York City:
2. Iowa:
3. Tahiti:
4. Beijing:
5. Timbuktu:
3. Movement: refers to the moving of ______, ______, ______, and ______and how they define a place.
Consider: How has movement as a theme of geography affected the development of the United States? (Journal Entry #2)
4. Region: refers to ______.
Regions can be defined by political beliefs, physical features, human or historical characteristics, and climate.
Look at the map above—what climate zone is Kentucky located in?
Florida? Southern California? Kansas?
5. Human-Environmental Interaction: refers to ______.
Consider: What are some ways people modify their environment around where we live? (Journal Entry #3)
CREATE A MNEMONIC DEVICE for the FIVE THEMES of Geography to help you remember them! Write your ideas in the space below:
Five Themes Foldable:
n Fold a sheet of paper in 2/3 horizontally (hotdog, leaving a tab at the bottom).
n Fold the paper so that one-third of the hot dog is exposed and two-thirds is covered.
n Fold the two-thirds section in half.
n Fold the one-third section (single thickness) backward to form a fold line.
n The paper will be divided into fifths when opened.
n Now, you’ll use a pair of scissors to cut the folds into five equal sections.
n On the tab at the bottom of the foldable, write: The Five Themes of Geography
n On the outside of each tab, write the 5 themes.
n Under each tab, write the definition of the theme. In the white space beneath the tab, draw a picture illustrating that theme. When you open the tab, you should find the definition of the theme written on the inside along with your picture.
Push & Pull Factors:
A True Story:
When I was 16 years old, my dad got a letter in the mail announcing that he was going to be transferred to Bowling Green, Kentucky to work at the Corvette Assembly Plant. The plant he had worked at in the small town of Adrian, Michigan was shutting down. He had worked there for 23 years. General Motors had outsourced a lot of the electrical and dashboard components my dad had worked on for years to other factories and other companies throughout the country and even the world.
In the ten years since we have lived in Bowling Green, we have returned to Michigan to visit family. Much of the state is devastated by the removal of auto industry jobs. The city of Detroit was once one of the top five populated and wealthiest cities in the country. Today, it seems a mass of people are leaving the area. City services are being cut—there is even talk of the city buying out neighborhoods on the outskirts of town and bulldozing homes to condense the city to save money on transportation, power, and water services.
The story above describes the PUSH factor of lack of opportunity. My family had to move from Michigan because the jobs were leaving there—namely, my dad’s job. Since he worked in factories pretty much all his life and didn’t go to college, he had no option but to move us South to find work and improve our quality of life.
In the same story, there is a PULL factor to move out of Michigan to Kentucky. These PULL factors that attracted us to Kentucky were the economy and opportunity.
Push factors cause ______.
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Pull factors ______.
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Can some places have PUSH and PULL factors? Look at the pictures on the ActivBoard and decide write any push or pull factors for each event in the chart below.
EVENT / PUSH factors / PULL factorsNew Orleans, LA --Hurricane Katrina
Darfur, Sudan (ethnic genocide)
Arizona, 2010 (immigration reform and law)