GEOGRAPHY &EARLY RIVER

VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

UNIT ONE

WEDNESDAY 9/9/151. You NEED colored pencils today!2. Pick up a geography worksheet at the door & complete.3. While you are working, I will come around and check your vocabulary on p. 3-4 in your packet.4. Notes

GEOGRAPHY

FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY:

1. MOVEMENT2. REGION3. LOCATION4. INTERACTION5. PLACE

5 Themes of Geography- Movement

•Movement•Occurs as people and their ideas go from one place to another.

• Reasons for movement:•Search for food•Look for jobs•Trading goods/money•Desire to be free•Escape religious persecution

5 Themes of Geography- Region• Region•A geographers way of subdividing the world into small parts for study.•This creates an area with its own unifying characteristics.

Examples: physical characteristics, cultural, political, economic features

LOCATION HINT:

3 L’s: LOCATION = ______________ & _____________LATITUDE

LONGITUDE

READING…

INTERACTION Relates to the effects that HUMANS have

on their environment This includes:

FARMING and irrigation CLEARING LAND MINING

Changes in TECHNOLOGY enable humans to have great environmental impacts, both positive and negative

PLACE Human and Physical Characteristics of a

location PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLES: Landforms, Climate, Soil, Animal Life

HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLES: Religion, Language, Transportation

THURSDAY 9/10/151. You NEED colored pencils today!2. Open your packet to pages 12 & 133. Grab a textbook and use p. A4 & A5 to label and color your maps.