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The Gang of Seven

A Homemade PowerPoint Game

Jon Scoresby

University of Georgia

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The Story of the “The Gang of Seven”

There is an international terrorist organization called "The Gang of Seven" that has hidden a bomb some place in the world. You have to piece together the location of the bomb from the information you gather from the terrorists as you catch them. Each terrorist is hidden around the world. You will be given clues about the location of the bomb when you find the terrorists. After you have collected all seven clues, you may submit your guess.

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Game DirectionsThe goal of the game is to find the bomb.

To play the game you have to move to the slide titled “Time to play ‘The Gang of Seven’!” or click on “Play the Game” on the title slide. You will have to answer questions by clicking on the correct response.

To win the game you have to successfully answer each question and find the bomb.

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CreditsAll teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game

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• Originally designed by Jon Scoresby, University of Georgia, September 8, 2004 “The Gang of Seven”.

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Educational Objectives• Audience

– Students in Advanced Placement Geography

• Subject Area Objectives– Students will be able to:

• Become familiar with the locations of countries throughout the world.

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• Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools.

• Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.

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Time to play “The Gang of Seven”!

You start somewhere in the world.

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The branch of geography that focuses upon natural landforms, climate, soils, and vegetation of the Earth is:

physical geography

cultural geography

human geography

locational geography

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The importance of the spatial approach that geographers use in their studies is that it shows:

the history of an area

human activity only

the political impact of boundaries

the arrangement and organization of things on the surface of the Earth

Alfred Wegener developed a hypothesis explaining the jigsaw-like fit of the continental land masses on opposite sides of the North and South Atlantic Oceans called

plate distribution

plate tectonics

crustal spreading

continental drift

Which of the following is not one of the "four traditions of geography" as originally developed by W.D. Pattison in 1964?

culture-environment

earth-science

locational

paleontologic

You have found Terry the terrorist

Your clue: This location is over 2,000 miles from the nearest highly populated area.

Physical geography remains one of the cornerstones of geography. In times past it was called:

area-analysis tradition

locational tradition

environmental tradition

earth-science tradition

The reason W.D. Pattison described the locational tradition as being the heart of all geography is that:

locational interest was a new concept

locational focus is essential for map-making

physical geography requires it

it is the spatial focus of the discipline

Which of the traditions of geography listed below has given rise to regional science?

earth-science

locational tradition

culture-environment

area-analysis

In 1986 the National Geographic Society published "Five Themes" of geography that differed from Pattison's "four traditions" in several ways, one of which was the omission of an important tradition that Pattison included. The omitted tradition was:

movement of people

earth-science

physical geography

You have found Tim the terrorist

Your clue: The population reached a peak around 10,000.

The "Five Themes" of geography, published by the National Geographic Society in 1986, added two themes to the four traditions identified by W. D. Pattison in 1964. One of these was place and the other was:

distribution

densities

numbers

movement

The concern of geography with space puts ? at the center of its agenda.

distance

places

patterns

The country of Rwanda is located on the continent of:

Australia

South America

Africa

The coordinates of absolute location are useful mainly in determining exact:

directions

elevations

distances

distances and directions

You have found Tyler the terrorist

Your clue: It’s surrounded by water.

The physical location of a place using the Earth latitude-longitude grid is properly called the:

central location

referenced location

relative location

absolute location

The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:

actual location

absolute location

relative location

If a place has a relative location that is centrally located to people, raw materials, markets, and the ability to transport goods then the place is said to have:

advantaged location

referenced location

centrality

Chicago's absolute location has not changed but its relative location changed markedly in 1959 because:

O'Hare international airport opened

a new railroad was completed

Lake Michigan shrank

the St. Lawrence Seaway opened

You have found Todd the terrorist

Your clue: It’s part of the South American continent.

During the past century which one of the following Asian countries experienced a dramatic change in their relative location?

Indonesia

Physical geography is important to the study of human geography because:

human activities are shaped by physical conditions

the Earth's surface constantly changes and humans need to be aware of this

by knowing the physical features of an area human geographers will know where to look for people

the Earth's surface forms the physical setting for creating the human imprint

A vital rule that maps demonstrate in geography is:

geography is not always spatial

a map is worth many pages of written text

geographic studies do not necessarily need maps

places on the Earth have their own distinctive properties

When Japan decided to embark on the road to industrialization, they chose which of the following countries as their model?

the United States

France

Germany

Britain

You have found Todd the terrorist

Your clue: The place is home to many petroglyphs (rock carvings), as well as traditional wood carvings, crafts, tattooing, stick figures, dance and music.

Except for South and Southeast Asia, what ocean influences the moistest areas of the world?

Pacific

Arctic

Indian

Atlantic

The spread of ideas, cultural traits, knowledge, and skills from their places of origin to other areas where they are adopted is called:

expansion

spreading

adjustment

diffusion

While it is not possible to measure the diffusion of cultural aspects quantitatively, it is possible to trace:

time of movement

reason for movement

speed of movement

direction of movement

Arrows are one of the most useful symbols used on maps but there are limitations to what they can show. Which of the following could arrows not show?

destination of movement

volume of movement

direction of movement

reason for movement

You have found Toby the terrorist

Your clue: This place has both South American and Polynesian influences.

Which of the following is not used as criteria for defining a region:

location

boundaries

A good example of a functional region would be a:

region where nearly everyone spoke French

region of similar climate

region where farming practices were the same

city and its surrounding region

A good example of a formal region would be a:

city and its surrounding region

region showing migration to a central location

region surrounding a manufacturing complex

region of similar housing types

Regions are:

limited in the information that can be handled

useful only to geographers

actual existing entities on the Earth's surface

a means of handling large amounts of information

Your clue: It’s best known for it large head statues.

You have found Tom the terrorist

The bomb is located in what hemisphere?

This bomb’s location is part of what continent?

Africa

Australia

South America

Antarctica

This bomb’s location is part of the main land?

The bomb is located in:

Falkland Islands

Easter Island

French Polynesia

Congratulations, you captured The Gang of Seven and found the bomb!

That is incorrect!The terrorists have escaped and the bomb was never found. Your chief has called you back to the office and you have been demoted to a desk job. You will be a paper pusher for the

next 5 years.

I’m sorry, but you have to start again…

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