Label Continents and Oceans on world map

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Label Continents and Oceanson world map
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Social Scientists

• What is the job..
• Sociologist to study customs and values of a
  culture
• economists to study how people, societies, and
  nations choose and supply the things they want
• political scientists to study how people are
  governed

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Social Scientists

• 2. read, observe, investigate, ask questions
• 3. People are complex

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Geography Notes
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What is Geography?

• The study of all the physical features of the
  Earths surface, including people, their
  environments, and their resources

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Themes of Geography

• Location absolute, relative
• Place Physical and human Characteristics
• Interaction between people and the environment

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Themes of Geography

• Movement
• migration
• trade
• ideas
• Diffusion movement of customs or ideas from one
  place to another spread of cultural features
• Interdependence mutual dependence of countries
  on goods, resources, and knowledge from other
  parts of the world
• Region unifying characteristics

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Longitude and Latitude
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Lines of Longitude or Meridians

• Runs north-south and meet at the poles (up
  down)
• Measured east/west of the Prime Meridian (00
  degrees longitude)
• The direction in which the degrees increase is
  the direction from the Prime Meridian (east/west)

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Lines of Latitude or parallels

• Run east-west (across)
• Measured by degrees north/south of the equator
  (00 degrees latitude)
• The direction in which the degrees increase is
  the direction from the equator (north/south)

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Climate vs. Weather

• Climate the pattern of changes in weather over a
  number of years
• Weather the condition of air at any one time

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Latitude and Climate

• Tropics (low latitudes)
• Between Tropic of Cancer (23.50 N. Latitude)
  Tropic of Capricorn (23.50 S. Latitude)
• Polar Regions (high latitudes)
• arctic circle 66.50 North
• Antarctic Circle 66.50 South Latitude
• Temperate Zone (middle latitudes)
• climate varies

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arctic circle 66.50 North
Polar Regions
Temperate Zone
Tropics (low latitudes)
Temperate Zone
Polar Regions
Antarctic Circle 66.50 South Latitude