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Do Now: Imagine you are a travel agent, and you must help your client (Ms. Wiese) figure out what would be the best place to go on vacation. Option 1. Option 2. Option 3. Option 4.
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Do Now: Imagine you are a travel agent, and you must help your client (Ms. Wiese) figure out what would be the best place to go on vacation.
Today we will: describe the six types of geographic features and create a foldable that lists and provides examples of geographic features. • Do Now • Notes: The Six Features • Practice
Word of the Day: Geography • en español: geografia • Definition: The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere • Activity: Draw a picture of what geography means to you.
Geographic Features • 1) Landforms • 2) Climate • 3) Bodies of Water • 4) Vegetation • 5) Natural Resources • 6) Elevation
Foldable Fold, baby, fold!!
Landform • A natural formation of rock and dirt on the earth’s surface • Examples: Mountains, hills, valleys, plains, islands, archipelagos, volcanoes, canyons
Climate • The long-term patterns of weather in an area, including temperature and rainfall • TEMPERATURE + RAINFALL = CLIMATE
Arid Climate • Very hot and dry In a desert, you would experience an arid climate.
Tropical Climate • Very hot and very rainy
Temperate Climate • (Hot summers/cold winters, average amount of rainfall) • In Connecticut, we have a temperate climate.
Tundra Climate • Very cold and dry
Bodies of Water • Physical features that permanently contain fresh or salt water • Examples: oceans, rivers, lakes, streams
Vegetation • The plants that commonly cover the ground in a region • Examples: Forest, grassland, tundra, desert, rainforest, savanna
Natural Resources • Materials naturally found in the earth that can be used by human beings
Elevation • The measure of distance above or below sea level
Lemons (landforms) • Can (climate) • Be (bodies of water) • Very (vegetation) • Nice… (natural resources) • Eventually (elevation)
Check for Understanding • LAKE: Body of water, or landform?
Check for Understanding • Grassland: Elevation or vegetation?
Check for Understanding • Wood: Vegetation or natural resource?
Check for Understanding • Forest: Vegetation or natural resource?