Looking at the Land: Creating Regions

Hello Researchers:

Read the article below and answer the questions that follow.  Click on each part to enlarge.

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Questions:

1)  What features can be used to organize land into regions?

2)  Countries are ______________  regions.

3) Define the word economy.

4)  Use boundary and region in two sentences about ways of organizing the Western Hemisphere.

5)  What type of map would you use to show baseball fields in Brooklyn?

Art Activity:

Draw how New York City might look in an ariel photograph and on a map.  Explain the similarities and differences.

Pangaea Think Quest

Hello Researchers:


Today you will go on a Think Quest to research information and answer questions about the Pangaea Theory.

Click here and answer the following questions:

1)  What is the Pangaea Theory?

2)  What does Pangaea mean in Greek?

3)  It says in the article that "The Pangaea theory was treated with much skepticism when it was first raised."  What does skepticism mean?

4)  Give three examples of evidence that has led scientists to believe that  the Pangaea Theory is true.  Explain each example.

Western Hemisphere Riddle

Hello Students:

Today, in our continuing pursuit of the focus question: How is the geography of the Western Hemisphere unique?  You will be using the National Geographic web site to answer a riddle.


Click on this link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places  


Find the answer to the following riddle:


I am in a place where people speak Spanish and English. There are no subways, but there is a monorail. Alligators live here. Farmers grow oranges here. One famous building here looks like a giant golf ball. The landscape is flat and swampy. There are trees in the Everglades. This place is a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides, the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. WHERE AM I?


Make a T Chart in your notebooks to describe the physical and human features of the riddle.

Human                                                                        Physical

Speak Spanish and English                        Flat and swampy landscape

No subways, but monorails                       Everglades

Golf ball building                                       Peninsula

Farmers grow oranges                               Surrounded by Atlantic Ocean and Gulf

 

Human Environment Interaction

Hello Students,

We have just read a few pages from Hatchet to illustrate how humans  must interact with their surroundings for survival. 

How did Brian interact with his environment? What were the results? 

We can see that there is a  cause and effect relationship between humans and their environment. 

Now you will take a look at one of three different countries in North or South America.   You will will work in pairs and read the sections of geography, nature, history, people and culture, and government/economy to INFER how the people used, adapted, and changed their environments.  Then you will answer the series of questions below.

North Table will answer the questions for Canada.

West Table will answer the questions for Peru.

East Table will answer the questions for Mexico 

The Questions:

Human Environment Interaction

Country:

1.  Describe your country’s geography/physical environment.

2.  Who were the first inhabitants?

3.  How did/do these people use their environment?

Past                                    Present

4.  How did/do these people adapt to their environment?

Past                                    Present

5.  How did/do these people change their environment?

Past                                    Present

6.  Are there more positive interactions in the past or the present? Why do you think that is?

 

 

Exploring the Western Hemisphere

Good Afternoon Students:


Our first social studies unit is entitled:


GEOGRAPHY AND EARLY PEOPLES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.


Today you will be using the web site: www.worldatlas.com  to go on a map quest in order to answer questions about the western hemisphere.


Log into the web site and answer the following questions in your social studies notebooks:


1.How many countries are there in North America?

2.What is the name of the entire island that the Dominican Republic and Haiti share?

3.Which continent (North America, South America or Central America) contains the world’s longest mountain range?

4.What is the capital of Canada?

Make sure that you answer using full sentences that echo the questions.

Example:

Question:  What is the capital of North Dakota?

Answer:  The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck.