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What is a compass rose?
a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
Cardinal Direction
N,S,E,W
Intermediate Direction
NW, SW, NE, SE
Climate Map
The climate of a place is the weather it has season by season, year after year
Rainfall and temperature are climate’s main ingredients
What is an Atlas
An atlas is a book of maps.
How long is a millennium?
1000 yrs
This map uses colors to show height above sea level.
elevation
These colorful maps show lines that people use to divide countries and states. They also show major cities.
Political Maps
These maps show physical features on the Earth like rivers, mountains, and deserts. ____________________________
Physical Map
this map shows the weather season by season, year after year
climate map
Draw a Linear settlement and explain
Linear settlements will follow a road, coastline or river and have their buildings in a long line.
Draw a Dispersed Settlement and explain
Dispersed settlements are ones that have their buildings spread out over a large area.
Draw a nucleated settlement and explain
Nucleated settlements are ones that have buildings packed close together.
What is one cause of Dispersed Settlements
Mountainous areas that are hard to build on and hard to build good transport links to.
Severe weather conditions e.g. extremely hot or cold or wet.
Mainly farm land
Floodplain or coastal area that is vulnerable to flooding
No entertainment
Causes of Nucleated Settlement
Good transport links (road, rail, river)
Good fertile land nearby to grow food.
Flat land, that is easy to build on
Stable weather that is good for growing.
Nearby natural resources e.g. fuel
Good transport links (road, rail, river)
Good fertile land nearby to grow food.
Flat land, that is easy to build on
Stable weather that is good for growing.
Good job prospects
Good schools and hospitals
CAUSES OF A LINEAR SETTLEMENT
In the case of settlements built along a route, the route was probably there before the settlement and then the settlement grew up at some way station or feature, growing along the transport route.
Often, it is only a single street with houses on either side of the road.
Later development may add side turnings and districts away from the original main street.
Two rivers that the most important physical features of the region known as Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia means what in Greek
Between the rivers
Although Mesopotamia had fertile soil, farming wasn’t easy, why?
Little rain
How did Mesopotamian solve their water problem ? What is it?
Irritation, a way of supplying water to an area of an land
Egypt is located on the Nile River The Nile begins in the Highlands of Ethiopia with two branches...
White and Blue Nile
The most important thing to the Egyptians about The Nile was ...
The yearly flooding
In the beginning, Egypt was separated into two kingdoms
lower and upper egypt
Whos Kind Menes? What did he do
Established a capital, Memphis
Established first Egyptian Dynasty
Unites Upper and Lower Egypt
Why type of Gov did Egypt have and define it
Theocracy; a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.