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Unit 1
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Lesson 1 side pages
Geography and changing Earth
 1. Location
■ Describes where places are at on Earth.
■ Absolute location- exact location on Earth
■ latitude/longitude
■ Hemispheres
■ Address (gps)
■ Relative location- where you are compared to something else
■ Miles
■ Distance
■ Direction
 Cardinal directions
North
South
East
West
 Hemispheres
■ Each half of the Earth
is a hemisphere
■ North and South
divided by equator
■ East and West divided
by Prime Meridian
 2. Regions
■ Earth is divided into
sections based traits
that the sections
share
■ Example traits
■ Climate
■ Language
■ Landforms
3. Place
■ What it looks like
when you get
there.
■ Vegetation
■ Wildlife
■ Landforms
■ People
■ Language
 4. Movement
■ How goods, people, and
ideas move from place
to place
■ Exports and imports
 5. Human-Environment
Interaction

■ Refers to how humans have changed the environment

of a place.
■ Building houses
■ Clearing land
The Human Effect
The Environment Effect
The Environment Effect- cover up
 Activity Slide #1

Create a left-side page to help you remember the 5

Themes of Geography
 Activity Slide #2

■ Show two examples of human environment

interaction creatively and colorfully
Western Hemisphere
■ Half of Earth west of the prime meridian
■ Contains the continents of
■ North America
■ Central America
■ South America
North America
● Canada
● United States
● Mexico

Central America
● Land that stretches from Southern Mexico to Northern
Colombia in South America
Isthmus
● Narrow strip of land that
connects two larger land areas
and is bordered by water
○ Example Panama
 Archipelagoes
● A group of islands,
located between North and
South America

● Also known as the

Caribbean Islands
Middle America
● Central American
combined with the
Caribbean Islands
 Activity Slide #3
Create a left side page that helps you remember what
makes up the Western Hemisphere
** North America, Central America, Middle America, and
South America**
 Activity Slide #4
Working by yourself or one other person, choose any
state or country in the Western Hemisphere and create a
left side page that describes that area based on on the
5 themes of geography. Use half of a page for each of
the 5 themes.
 Extension activity.
If you finished with the 4 required activities, please try this one.
On a left side page of course

How do the 5 themes of geography connect the people of

the world and as a result allow you to live the life you
have today?
(please make sure to include all 5 themes)