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What are the 5 fields of social studies?
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Culture
Economics History Geography Government |
Hint: C.E.H.G.G. "Chad eats hairy gopher guts!"
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What is Culture?
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Beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living that people share.
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Hints Disco
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What is Economics?
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How people manage their resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services. Economics is about choice.
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What is Geography?
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The study of the earth and the people who live on it.
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What is Government?
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People and groups within a society that have authority to make laws.
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What is limited government?
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Everyone must obey the laws
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What is unlimited government?
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Rulers can do whatever they want. (dictators, totalitarians)
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What are the Five themes of Geography?
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Location
Region Place Movement Human-Interaction |
L.R.P.M.H.
Lions Really Part More Hair |
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Geography - Theme One
What is location? |
The position of a place on the earth's surface
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What is relative location?
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The position of a place in reference to another place (my house is two blocks north of HEB)
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What is absolute location?
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The exact location of a city using longitude and latitude.
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Geography - Theme Two
How is a place determined? |
"What is it like there?" The features and characteristics that give an area its own personality.
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Geopgraphy - Theme Three
Human Interaction with the environment refers to?... |
How people use, adapt to, or change their surroundings. Examples are irrigation, fencing in land, clearing a forest, etc.
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Geography - Theme Four What is movement?
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People interacting across the globe with the movement of people, ideas, and goods. Examples are driving a car built in Japan, sharing a culture brought in from distant countries, using the Internet to share ideas.
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Geography - Theme Five What is a region?
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A region is an area unified by a similar feature. Examples: mountains, plains, desert.
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Review your map of the continents and oceans now.
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REALLY! GET UP RIGHT NOW AND DO IT !!!!
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What is a canyon?
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a deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
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What is a delta?
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A triangular area of land formed from deposits at the mouth of a river.
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What is a desert?
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A dry area where few plants grow.
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What is a mesa?
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A wide, flat-topped mountain with steep sides, larger than a butte.
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What is a mountain?
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A natural elevation of the Earth's surface with steep side and higher than a hill.
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What is an oasis?
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A spot of fertile land in a desert, supplied with water by a well or a spring.
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What is a plateau?
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A broad flat area of land higher than surrounding land.
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What is a steppe?
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A wide, treeless plant.
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What is a valley?
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Low land between hills or mountains.
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What is fertile land in a desert called?
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Oasis
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What is the difference between a cape and an island?
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A island isn't connected to land and a cape is connected to land.
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Which is the only landform that moves?
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A glacier
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What is the difference between a mesa and a mountain?
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A mesa is flat at the top and a mountain is not.
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Which landform describes the low land between hills or mountains?
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A valley
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What is Longitude?
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Imaginery lines that run north and south; they are also known as meridians. They show distances in the degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
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What is the prime meridian?
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The prime meridian is a longitude line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England.
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The Prime Meridian is located a _____ degrees longitude?
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Zero
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What is latitude?
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Latitude lines are the imaginery lines that run east and west around the globe. They are also known as parallels.
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Latitude lines show distances in degrees north or south of the___________
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equator.
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The __________ is a latitude lines that circles Earth halfway between the north and south poles.
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The equator.
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The tropices of __________ and __________ are parallels that form the boundaries of the tropical zone, a region that stays warm all year.
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Cancer & Capricorn
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A person who makes maps is called a....?
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Cartographer
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What are thematic maps?
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They focus on specific themes or ideas. Examples: vegatation, population density,
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Map projectsion have different ways or showing the earth's _______ _______ on a flat map.
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Curved surface
Examples are Mercator projection and Robinson projection. |
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What is the mercator projection?
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For more than 400 years, Mercator Projection was most often shown on maps of the world.
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What is the Robinson Projection?
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Recently, the Robinson Projection has been used because it shows a more accurate picture.
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What are the differences between the Mercator projection and the Robinson projection?
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1. The Robinson projection is curved on the sides and the Mercator Projection isn't.
2. The continents on the Robinson Projection is bigger, the mercator is not. |
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What do we call the two sets of lines that geographers have created to help locate places on a map or globe?
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Latitude and Longitude
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What are the two lines that divide the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
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Equator, Prime Meridian
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What percentage of the earth's surface is covered by water?
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70%
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Name all four oceans...
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Pacific
Atlantic Artic Indian |
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What percentage of the water found on the earth is fresh water?
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3%
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What are the three stages of the water cycle?
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1. Evaporation
2. Condensation 3. Precipitation |
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Name all seven continents
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North America
South America Europe Asia Australia Antartica Africa |
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What are the four basic types of landforms found on the earth?
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Plain
Plateau Island & Peninsulas Mountains |
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What name have geographers given to the movement of the continents over millions of years?
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Continental Drifts
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Where woul you be more likelyh to find a large population center; on top of a high mountain, or on a coastal plain?
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Coastal Plain
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What is a title on a map?
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The title indicates the subject of the map and tells you what information it contains.
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Describe the symbols on maps
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Symbols may stand for capital cities, economic activities, or natural resources.
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What do colors indicate on a map?
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Colors show a variety of information on a map. The map legend tells what the colors mean.
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What are labels used for on maps?
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They are words and phrases thta name features on the map.
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What are lines of longitude?
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Imaginary lines that show distances east and west of the prime meridian.
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What are the lines of lattitude?
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Imaginery lines that show distances north and south of the equator.
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What is a Legend (or key)
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Lists that explain the symbols and colors used on the map.
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What is the compass rose?
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The compass rose shows you north (N), south (S), east (E), and west (W)on the map. Sometimes only North is shown.
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What is the scales
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The scale compares a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on the earth.
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Study the Time Zone Map
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NOW!!! RUN!!!!! STUDY IT!!!!
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What time zone is Austin, TX located in?
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Central
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What time zone is Los Angeles, CA in?
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Pacific
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What time zone is Atlanta Georgia located in?
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Eastern
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What time is Phoenix, Arizona located in?
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Mountain
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