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Seventh Grade Social Studies
Unit 3: West Asia: People, Places, and Issues
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Lesson 1
Graphic Organizer
Questions about West Asia with the
Five Themes of Geography
Location
Where are things
located in West
Asia?
Region
Place
How can West
Asia be divided
into regions for
study?
What makes
places in West
Asia different
from other
places?
Movement
What are the West
Asian patterns of
movement of
people, products,
and information?
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Five
Themes of
Geography
Human/
Environment
Interaction
What are the
relationships among
people and places?
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Big Ideas Card
Big Ideas of Lesson 1, Unit 3
1. The five themes of geography include location, place, region, movement,
and human/environment interaction.
2. The five themes of geography are a structure for studying the people,
places, and cultures of the world.
3. Regions are a way to organize geographic information about the world.
4. Regions can be based on physical, historical, or cultural characteristics.
5. The geography of a region can be studied from the global, interregional,
regional and local scales.
6. West Asia is one region in this part of the world.
7. Human/environment interaction happens when people adapt to and
change the environment when drought, earthquakes, flooding and other
natural disasters occur.
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Word Cards
1. five themes of
geography
2. location
five big ideas that help
people understand
geography
the geographic
theme that relates to where a place can
be found
Example: The five themes of geography can
be used to help us to better understand a
place.
Example: We can find the location of a place
by using a globe, a map or directions.
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3. place
4. region
the geographic theme that
answers the question “What
is it like there?”
an area with one or more
common features, a
geographic theme
Example: Geographers use the theme of
‘place’ to describe what an area is like.
Example: The Upper Peninsula can be one
region of Michigan.
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5. movement
6. human/environment
interaction
the geographic theme
that explains how and
why people, goods and
ideas move
ways in which people use
and interact with the Earth, a
geographic theme
Example: The theme of movement helps us
understand how places are connected to other
places.
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Example: When people build new roads they
are interacting with the Earth.
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World Map
Regions
Region Possibilities
1.________________________
2,________________________
3.________________________
4.________________________
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Asia Map
Regions
Region Possibilities
1.________________________ 3.________________________
2,________________________ 4.________________________
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India Map
Regions
Region Possibilities
1.________________________ 3.________________________
2,________________________ 4.________________________
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Five Themes of Geography Activity
Location
Where are things located in West Asia?
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Region
How can West Asia be divided into regions for study?
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Place
What makes places in West Asia different from other
places?
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Human/Environment Interaction
What are the relationships between people and places in
West Asia?
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Movement
What are the patterns of movement of people, products,
and information in West Asia?
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Five Themes of Geography Activity
Countries of West Asia
(Cut names apart and distribute, 25 countries plus 6 extras)
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Iran
Jordan
Lebanon
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Turkmenistan
Yemen
India
Pakistan
Israel
Armenia
Bangladesh
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Nepal
Qatar
Syria
United Arab Emirates
Azerbaijan
India
Israel
Kuwait
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Uzbekistan
India
Iran
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Nepal
Five Themes of Geography of West Asia
(Cut themes apart and distribute)
Location
Location
Place
Place
Region
Region
Movement
Movement
Location
Location
Place
Place
Region
Region
Movement
Movement
Location
Location
Place
Place
Region
Region
Movement
Movement
Human/Environment
Interaction
Human/Environment
Interaction
Human/Environment
Interaction
Human/Environment
Interaction
Human/Environment
Interaction
Human/Environment
Interaction
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West Asia
“I have… Who has…?” game
Cut the strips apart and distribute one to each student. Keep one for yourself. To
start the game, read the question on your paper, “Who has…?” Whoever has the
correct answer responds and then reads their question. This continues until all the
questions have been read. (Notes: The answers follow the questions on the next
slip, so keep an uncut copy as an answer key to check the students’ answers.
Suggest to the students that they research the “I have…” part of their slip to be ready
to answer their question.)
I have monotheism.
Who has an island country off the southeast coast of India?
I have Sri Lanka.
Who has the two longest rivers in India?
I have the Brahmaputra River and the Indus River.
Who has the famous mosque in Istanbul Turkey?
I have the Hagia Sophia.
Who has the capital of Syria, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities?
I have Damascus.
Who has the country with the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
I have Iraq.
Who has the country where nearly 90% of the people are Shia Muslims?
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I have Iran.
Who has a landlocked country east of Iran?
I have Afghanistan.
Who has the Uzbekistan’s major cash crop?
I have cotton.
Who has the country with Mt. Everest, the mountain in the world?
I have Nepal.
Who has the sea south of Iran and Pakistan?
I have I have the Arabian Sea.
Who has the seasonal winds of India and South Asia?
I have monsoons.
Who has the beautiful tomb built for a beloved wife in Agra, India?
I have the Taj Mahal.
Who has the word for a large landmass that is part of a continent?
India is often called this.
I have subcontinent.
Who has the name for a local marketplace in Southwest Asia?
I have bazaar.
Who has an Islamic house of worship?
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I have a mosque.
Who has a storm with high winds and heavy rains?
I have a cyclone.
Who has a nomadic desert people of Southwest Asia who follow a traditional way of
life?
I have Bedouin.
Who has a farm product grown for export?
I have cash crop.
Who has the term for a country that has limited industry, where agriculture is
important and incomes are generally low?
I have developing country.
Who has the large inland sea that was drying up due to irrigation in the 1960s?
I have the Aral Sea.
Who has the rich mineral deposits in Kazakhstan that are used to make fertilizers?
I have phosphates.
Who has the largest lake north of Ian in West Asia that is called a sea?
I have the Caspian Sea.
Who has the lowest point in this region, at 1,312 feet below sea level located in
Israel and Jordan?
I have the Dead Sea.
Who has the energy resource that has made many countries in this region rich?
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I have petroleum.
Who has the city often called the ‘Old City’ that has important holy sites of Jews,
Christians, and Muslims?
I have Jerusalem.
Who has the capital city that is located in both Asia and Europe? It was once called
Constantinople.
I have Istanbul.
Who has the narrow gap between mountains in the Hindu Kush mountain range?
I have the Khyber Pass.
Who has the practice that has reduced the number of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea?
I have poaching.
Who has the ancient name of Iraq?
I have Mesopotamia.
Who has the name for the form of religion that means belief in one God? Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam are all this type of religion.
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