Post on 21-Dec-2015
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
SuperiorUpland
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Review
SuperiorUpland
CentralLowland
CentralLowland
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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
NorthernHemispher
e
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Hemispheres
NorthernHemispher
e
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Hemispheres
NP
SP
Equator = 0o
NorthernHemispher
e
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Hemispheres
NP
SP
Equator = 0o
NorthernHemispher
e
Southern Hemispher
e
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Hemispheres
Southern Hemispher
e
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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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Bycontinent
By natural characteristics
By ??????
By human characteristics
By time zone
By hemisphere
Ways to divide the World into Regions
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