Geography
This is the study of Earth, its people, places, and environments.
What is geography?
Earth has this many continents.
What is 7?
What are our 3 main classroom expectations?
Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Safe
These are the big ideas we use to help make connections between people, places, events, and ideas in Social Studies.
What are Connecting Themes?
Before learning what a new vocabulary word means, this is something you should do with the word aloud.
What is say/pronounce the word?
This imaginary line is located at 0° latitude and divides Earth into two hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
What are the FIRST TWO things you should do after entering the classroom quietly?
Go immediately to your assigned seat and begin the warm-up
This Connecting Theme focuses on where people, places, and things are located.
What is Location?
Put these three vocabulary words in the correct order: Consumption • Distribution • Production
What are Production → Distribution → Consumption?
Geographers study these TWO main types of features on Earth.
What are physical features and human features?
These are the names of all five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
Why must we keep our classroom clean at ALL TIMES?
Because the classroom is a shared/community space.
A tradition changes over generations but keeps its original purpose. This theme examines both.
What is Time, Change, and Continuity?
Choose Scarcity OR Migration. Give its meaning in your own words and use it correctly in a sentence.
What is Scarcity/Migration? (Must correctly explain AND use it in a sentence.)
Mountains, rivers, and oceans belong to this type of geographic feature.
What are physical features?
This continent is located south of Europe, between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
What is Africa?
A student talks while the teacher is talking and then gets out of their seat without permission. Name BOTH non-negotiables the student is breaking.
Do not talk over the teacher AND remain in your seat until given permission.
A population grows while its available farmland stays the same.
What is Scarcity?
Break the vocabulary word “culture” into its word parts. Identify the prefix, root, and suffix.
What are:
You travel north, make a right turn, and then make another right turn. This is the direction you are now traveling.
What is south?
This continent is crossed by the Equator, is located mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, and is bordered by both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is South America?
You enter class loudly, go to the wrong seat, talk while the teacher is speaking, leave trash behind, and get up without permission. Identify FOUR rules or expectations that were broken.
Any 4: Enter quietly; go immediately to your assigned seat; do not talk over the teacher; keep the classroom clean; remain seated until given permission; treat everyone/everything with respect.
A country has enough food, but poor transportation prevents it from reaching many communities.
What is Production, Distribution, and Consumption?
Break down the vocabulary word environmental into its prefix, root, and suffix. Then give the meaning of EACH word part.