Before you start:
- Create a google drive document and share it with me at shipdog65@gmail.com
- Answer the following questions on that drive document
A. Write down the following questions leaving room to write your answers.
1. What are maps?
2. How long have we made maps?
3. What are the five basic elements of a map?
4. What is the science of map-making called?
5. What are two technologies we have now that help with maps?
6. What are four types of information shown with maps? Name and explain.
7. What are the two main types of maps?
B. Go to the following website to find the answers to these questions. The information covers more than one page.
C. Read what the 5 Themes of Geography are and answer the questions that correspond with each of them.
- Location – where something is
- *Absolute Location is a place or thing’s exact location on Earth.
- Example: “My house is located at 68 Beach Street, in Chelsea, Vermont.”
- *Relative Location describes a place or thing’s location based on other things near it.
- Example: “If you are arriving from town, my house is on the corner of Monroe and Rowen on the east side of the street.””
- 8. Using the following image at the bottom of this page, how might you describe the relative location of “The Davenport”?
- 9. How would you describe the absolute location of Shadle Park High School? http://www.spokaneschools.org/shadle
- Place – what something’s location is like
- *Place includes the physical and human features of an area.
- Example: “Riverfront Park occupies 100 acres of land and water with a rich and varied history.”
- “Spokane Falls and the surrounding land has long been a gathering place for people.”
- 10. Look at the photograph below. Look carefully. How would you describe this place?
- Region – what makes a place, or set of connected places, unique.
- *Regions are physical areas, or groups of people, that have features that make them different from other areas or groups.
- Example: “Washington is part of a region that grows apples that also includes Idaho, Oregon, California, and British Columbia. “People who live in Spokane often describe where they live by different regions: Downtown, the North side, the South Hill, the Valley, Mead, etc.”
- 11. Next, look at the image below. The U.S. is often thought of as being split into five regions. How else could the country be divided into different regions? What would those regions be based on?
- Human-Environment Interaction – how people affect the land, and how the land affects people.
- *All people are affected by their land and landscape. People also impact the land they live on. What does this look like?
- Example: “The North-South Freeway is being built to accommodate the flow from Mead to I-90 and alleviate traffic on Division.”
- “Students in the South tend to go back to school much earlier than students in the North because of how hot the summer months are.”
- 12. Look at the picture below. What is going on in this picture? How is the land affecting the humans? How are the humans affecting the land?
- Movement – how people, animals, things, or ideas move around
- *Movement connects people and places as things move from place to place. What moves? Why? What is the effect of this movement?
- Example: “Washingtonians can eat oranges in the winter because oranges are shipped from Florida and Spain.”
- “Music styles that originated in America became popular in Europe and Asia with the help of the internet.”
- A. Visit the following political map of Africa and answer the questions below. The country names will be bolded and in capital letters. The capitals will be underlined and marked with a red dot. http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/Africa.htm
- 14. Why is this called a “Political Map”?
- 15. What is the country located north of Sudan?
- 16. What is the capital of Namibia?
- 17. What island is located off the Southeast coast of Africa.
- B. Use the map at the following link to answer the questions below. http://sitesatlas.com/Flash/USCan/OKFF.htm
- 18. Name three rivers that run through Oklahoma.
- 19. Name five counties through which the Canadian River runs.
- 20. What counties border Blaine County?
- 21. What was the 2008 population of Blaine County?
- C. Use the map at the following link to answer the questions below. http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
- 22. What do the colors blue and red mean?
- 23. What does this map show?
- 24. How many states voted red, how many voted blue, and what was the overall outcome?
- 25. What was the percentage of Democratic voters as well as Republican voters in Oklahoma? Who won and by how much?
- The following activities are much more technical than the previous ones. Make sure to take your time, read the directions very carefully, and answer all sections of the questions.
- A. First, we are going to visit an unlikely place for surfers, North Carolina. Follow the link below and navigate through the entire slide show. Be sure to look at all the pictures and read all of the text! http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/20/travel/20090720-surf-slide-show_index.html
- 26. After you have navigated the site and read the text, make the connections to each of the 5 Themes of Geography.
- a. Absolute Location. Find the Outer Banks on a map (in your textbook or online). You have to be able to point to them if asked.
- b. Relative Location. If someone wanted to go surfing there, how would you describe how to get there?
- c. Place. Describe this place. What is it like? (Include the natural environment and the human culture.
- d. Region. What region is it in? Is it in a region that you typically think of when you think of surfing? Where is another surfing region?
- e. Human-Environment Interaction. How are humans using the land? How is the land affecting humans?
- f. Movement. How are people, things, or ideas moving?
- B. Next, choose one of the three articles below. (You can skim each of them before you choose.)
- After Irene, Vermont Kids Travel Across a Mountain to Get to School
- Alien Wasps Attacking Birds in Hawai'i
- Increasing Piracy in Somali Waters
- 27. Read your article from start to finish. Then, decide which one of the 5 Themes is most important in your article. (You have to choose ONE!) Describe where in your article you saw the theme and why you think it is the most important or prominent.
- C. Finally, visit the following sites and look at the images/photographs in each one. (Each is the FIRST central image you see when you open the link!) Note: You DO NOT have to read the article, just look at the central image.
- Washing a Camel
- Haiti and Poverty
- African Sandstorm
- Hip Hop Culture
- Wildfires
- Sinai Peninsula
- High-Tech Trash
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Nuclear Power
- 28. Choose THREE of the images. (Be sure to tell me which images you are discussing) List as many of the 5 Themes as you can for each image and explain your choices.
