Meredith Ernst

Deanna Beatty

Jeremiah Fuller

Olivia Hodges

Eric Rios DariyaEhlers

MargyHenry

Brion Williams Chandler Mitchell

Jason Gonzalez

Haley Schmidt

Aldemar Jimenez

Noah Broom D’Kari Worthy

Donovan Bowling

GuinevereHanshaw

Jordan Goodjoin

Ashley Kessinger

Alexis Davis

Bell Ringer 8/24

• Write down any questions you may have before the test?

• About the project?

• Copy/Date/Answer

Bell Ringer 8/25

• Write down any questions you may have before the test?

• About the project?

• Copy/Date/Answer

Journal 8/26

• What are some examples of American culture?

Journal 8/27

• What are some examples of American culture?

What is culture??????

• Culture is all features of a society’s way of life.

• Culture is learned-passed down from generation to generation.

Examples of Culture

• Language• Religion• Gov’t • Family Life• Economics• Food • Clothing • Architecture

What are Cultural Traits?• Cultural traits are activities and

behaviors that people practice repeatedly.

• Examples: US people use forks and knives– Chinese: Chopsticks– Malaysian: Eat with fingers

• A group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture is a Society.

• An ethnic group is a group that shares a language, customs, and a common heritage.

• An ethnic group has an identity as a separate group of people within a region.

Culture Change• Innovation – taking existing technology

and resources and creating something new.

• Diffusion – the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior.

• Acculturation – when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation.

• Choose one of the definitions from cultural change and draw a specific example of one that has occurred in the U.S.

•BE OPEN MINDED TO OTHERS!

Journal 8/28

• What kind of climate do we live in?

• Copy/Date/Answer

Journal 9/1

• What kind of climate do we live in?

• Copy/Date/Answer

WORLD CLIMATE REGIONS

Climate Regions

• Generalizations about what the typical weather conditions are like over many years in a location.

• Uses temperature and precipitation to define different climates.

Tropical Wet

• Little variation in temperature over the year.– Always hot with an average temp of 80°F– Almost daily rainfall (around 80 inches

annually)

Tropical Wet and Dry

• The subregion has a rainy season in summer and a dry season in winter. – Cooler temps. in the dry season and

warmer in the wet season– Has less rainfall than tropical wet regions

and occurs mostly in wet season

Semiarid

• Found in the interior of continents, or in a zone around deserts.– Does receive precipitation but not very

much, about 16 inches annually– Hot summers and mild to cold winters– Some locations can produce snow

Desert

• Categorized according to the amount of rainfall, and can be hot or cool/cold. – Receive less than 10 inches of rain per year– Hot deserts have low humidity and high temps.

during the day and lower temps at night because dry air can’t hold heat

– Cold deserts have warm to hot summer temps and cool to below freezing winter temps.

Mediterranean

• Named for the land around the Mediterranean Sea where it is located– It also exists elsewhere– Summers are dry and hot, and its winters

cool and rainy.– Supports a dense population and rich

agricultural activity

Marine West Coast

• Located close to the ocean.– Frequently cloudy, foggy, and damp– Winds over the ocean moderate the temps.

and keep them moderately constant– Precipitation is evenly distributed

throughout the year.

Humid Subtropical

• Long periods of summer heat and humidity.– Often subject to hurricanes in late summer

and autumn– Winters are mild to cool, depending on

latitude– Suitable for raising crops, especially rice

Humid Continental

• Found in the mid-latitude interiors of Northern Hemisphere continents.– Variety in temps and humidity– Air masses chilled by Arctic ice and snow

flow south over these areas and collide with tropical air masses, causing changing weather conditions.

Subarctic

• Evergreen forests called taiga cover the lands in this region.– Huge temp variations between summer

and winter– Summers are short and cool, winters are

always very cold (at or below freezing for 8 months)

Tundra

• Flat, treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean are called tundra along with the climate. – Very little precipitation (less than 15 inches

per year)– Land has permafrost, when the subsoil is

constantly frozen

Ice Cap

• Snow, ice, and permanently freezing temps– So cold that it rarely snows– Sometimes called polar deserts because

they receive less than 10 inches of rainfall per year

– Coldest temp recorded = -128.6°F

Highlands

• Varies with latitude, elevation, other topography, and continental location.– In rugged mountain areas climates can

vary depending on whether a slope faces north or south and whether it is exposed to winds carrying moisture.

Journal 8/31

• If you could choose any climate to live in, which would you choose and why?

• Copy/Date/Answer

Journal 9/3

• If you could choose any climate to live in, which would you choose and why?

• Copy/Date/Answer

• Fill out the chart worksheet given to you.• Once you complete that, I want you to make a

study guide with illustrations for each climate (Write the climate & its facts from the chart and draw what that climate would look like)– Can be a book– Can be notecards– Can be a flip page booklet

Name that climate!

1. Usually located near the equator with daily rainfall

2. Long periods of summer heat and hurricanes in late summer.

3. Usually associated with rugged mountain areas

4. Very short summers that are still very cool, permafrost

5. Summers dry and hot, winters are cool and rainy, usually found around the Mediterranean sea.

6. Found around the poles. Long periods of below freezing weather

7. Found in the mid-latitude interiors of Northern Hemisphere continents. Has cool air flowing south from arctic ice that collides with tropical air masses creating changing temperatures.

8. Not enough precipitation to sustain any vegetation

9. Located close to the ocean with winds to moderate the temperatures.

10. Has low precipitation, usually in the interior of continents

11. Rainy summer and a dry winter

12. So cold it rarely snows, lots of ice and below freezing temperatures

Journal Question 9/2

• How can landforms and physical geography affect a society’s culture.

• Get your book and turn to page 33 and analyze the infographic.– Make your own infographic of the

hydrologic cycle and answer the skill building questions.

• Turn to page 34 and 35 and write the definitions for the landforms with a picture for each (doesn’t have to be elaborate).

Bodies of Water and Landforms

Oceans and Seas

• Oceans are interconnected bodies of salt water that cover about 71% of the Earth.– Atlantic Ocean– Pacific Ocean– Indian Ocean– Arctic Ocean

Ocean Motion• Currents – act like rivers flowing through the

ocean.• Waves – swells of ridges produced by winds.• Tides – the regular rises and falls of the

ocean created by gravitational pull of the moon or sun.

• Oceans help moderate temperatures and distribute heat.

Name the ocean motion

Hydrologic Cycle

• The continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, oceans, and the earth.

1. Does more water evaporate from the land or oceans?

2. How does precipitation falling on land reach the ocean?

Ground Water

• Some water on the surface of the earth is held by the soil, and some flows into the pores of rock below the soil.– Water held in pores of rock is ground

water.

Landforms

• Naturally formed features on the surface of the earth.

Bell Ringer 9/8

• On another sheet of computer paper, draw the layout and landforms of your local region (Greenville/The Upstate).– You may need to do some research on

your phone or an ipad.

• Turn your journals into the crate labeled 2A.

• Make sure everything in your binder is in order, I will be checking during the test.