dividing the earth into regions - social studies...

DIVIDING THE EARTH

INTO REGIONS

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Unit 2, Lesson 5: What Are Some Ways to Organize or Regionalize the Earth?

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REGION: an area with at least

one characteristic or

feature that sets it

apart from other areas

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Review

What is one way to divide

Michigan into regions?

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Review

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Review

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Review

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Review

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Review

Superior

Upland

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Review

Superior

Upland

Central

Lowland

Central

Lowland

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Review

What is one way to divide the

United States into regions?

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Review

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Review

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Review

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Review

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Review

What map shows the best way to

divide the Earth into regions?

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

Equator = 0o

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

Equator = 0o

Northern

Hemisphere

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Hemispheres

Northern

Hemisphere

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

Equator = 0o

Northern

Hemisphere

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

Equator = 0o

Northern

Hemisphere

Southern

Hemisphere

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Hemispheres

Southern

Hemisphere

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Hemispheres

Could a country be in both the

Northern and Southern

Hemispheres? Why or why not?

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Hemispheres

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

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Hemispheres

NP

SP

Prime Meridian = 0o

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Hemispheres

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Hemispheres

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Hemispheres

Is the United States in the

Western or Eastern

Hemisphere?

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Hemispheres

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Hemispheres

Other countries in

both the Western

and Eastern

Hemispheres

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Hemispheres

What is special about the country of Kiribati?

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Continents

CONTINENT: a large unbroken

land mass

surrounded by

water

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Continents

How many continents

are there?

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Continents

Write the names of the

continents.

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Continents

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Continents

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Continents

a large

unbroken

land mass

surrounded

by water??

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Continents

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Continents

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Continents

a large

unbroken

land mass

surrounded

by water??

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Continents

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Continents

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Continents

What would Antarctica

look like without the ice?

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Continents

a large

unbroken land

mass

OR

an ice-capped

group of

islands????

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Continents

How might visitors to Earth describe it?

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

Less Economically Developed Countries

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

Less Economically Developed Countries

More Economically Developed Countries

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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Other Ways to Regionalize Earth

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By

continent

By natural

characteristics

By

??????

By human

characteristics

By

time zone

By

hemisphere

Ways to

divide the

World into

Regions

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