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Geography
Learning Requirements (Plan & Do)
100% of students will be able to answer in detail:
 How do the 5 themes of Geography help you understand what it’s like to be somewhere?
 Why & how are maps useful?
as evidenced by 80%+ on Geography Vocab Quiz.
Goals (Plan)
Class Goal
80%+
My Goal
%
Commitments
(Do & Act)
Student(s) will…
Mr. Culp
will…
Strategies to help students
understand, be successful,
& reach goals
 Use examples &
visuals to help
students
summarize
 Summarize the 5
themes of
Geography
 Compare &
contrast maps &
their features
Benchmarks
Checkpoint 1
(Friday, August 26)
Vocab Quiz
(Friday, September 2)
Daily Questions
(Friday, September 2)
Checkpoint 2
(Friday, September 2)
Results (Study)
% of class
My Score
that met
goal
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Successes, Lessons, & Improvements
(Study)
+ (Plus)
Why it worked or how it helped
students understand.
∆ (Delta)
A change or improvement for the
future or lesson learned.
Page 12 –
left side
Date
Geography Daily Questions 2016
Due Friday, September 2
/43 points
Date
Tues, August 30
Daily Questions
1. What is the difference between absolute & relative
location?
absolute location
relative location
/7 POINTS
pg 22, 26
Wednesday,
August 31
2. What does “place” do?
Wednesday,
August 24
/11
POINTS
pg 18-21
pg 22, 2627
9. What are 2 strengths & a major weakness of maps?
strengths
Weakness
- Ways
HE
Thursday,
September 1
/8
POINTS
EH
/5
POINTS
pg 21-24
Movement leads to
through transportation like
bringing new
and communication
like
bringing new
to a place.
5. Why are regions created?
6. What can be used to create a region?
10. What are 2 strengths & 3 weaknesses of globes?
Strengths
weaknesses
pg 28-29
4. How does movement affect place?
Thursday,
August 25
8. How are political, physical & historical maps
different?
political maps
physical maps
historical maps
/10
POINTS
3. How do humans and the environment affect each
other?
+ Ways
Page 13 – right side
Daily Questions
7. What are the seven (7) important things that help
you understand/read a map?
By Friday,
September 2
/9
POINTS
pg 27
11. Parallels are lines of
They are measured
of the
or
12. Meridians are lines of
They are measured
of the
or
13. Why do we use longitude & latitude?
.
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Page 14 –
left side
Geography Vocabulary 2016
Create a flashcard to help you learn,
remember, & review each vocab term.
Front=term + picture//Back=definition
Flashcards due Wednesday, August 31
21. geography – studying the Earth’s natural features, resources, climates,
people, and how they interact
26. movement – how and why people, goods, and ideas go from one place
to another and lead to change
Page 15
– right side
27. region – a group of places that share common features such as climate,
land, population, history, language, or government
22. absolute location – an exact position on the earth such as degrees of
latitude and longitude or an address
23. relative location – a building, landmark, city, etc. near where you want
to go
28. compass rose – shows cardinal directions on a map
29. map key/legend – a list that explains the symbols, lines, or colors on a
map
24. place – physical & cultural features that give a location its own identity &
makes it different from anywhere else on earth
30. lines – indicate political boundaries, roads and highways, human
movement, and rivers and other waterways
25. human-environment interaction – how humans change the natural
environment and how the natural environment affects peoples’ everyday
lives
31. symbols – represent items like capital cities, battle sites, or economic activities
Page 16 – left side
32. labels – words or phrases that explain various items or activities on a
map
Page 17
– right side
37. historical map – illustrates such things economic activity, migrations,
battles, and changing national boundaries. (shows what happened
there)
33. scale – a specific distance on the map that represents a specific distance
on the earth.
34. colors – show differences on a map, for a variety of information such as
population density or the physical growth of a country
35. political map – show the names and political boundaries of countries,
states, provinces, counties, districts and towns by using different colors,
symbols, or label font. (shows that something’s there)
36. physical map – shows natural landforms, features, and waterways like
deserts, mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans etc. of an area
(shows what’s there)
38. Hemisphere – half the globe (northern, southern, eastern, or western)xx
39. meridians – (lines of longitude) – imaginary north-south lines that run
around the globe but are measured East or West from Prime Meridian
40. parallels – (lines of latitude) – imaginary east-west lines that run around
the globe but are measured North or South from Equator