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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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