World Geography EOC Comprehensive Map Review

Based on the 6 Essential Elements of Geography

Modified from: CFBISD

Teacher Information

Materials Needed:

1. Tape, Glue sticks, and map colors2. Student Map – The map is in a Publisher File and will automatically print the

world map on 6 different sheets of paper. Students will have to tape the maps together. (This may take about 20 minutes or so for 9th graders).

3. Student Packet – each student will need the student resource packet – since these items will be cut up, it is essential that you run the packets on only one side of the paper. Suggestion: Since not all of the cutting and gluing will happen on the same day – you might want to give the students a manila folder, envelope, or plastic bag to hold their remaining items.

4. Power Point5. Atlases or textbooks

5/12/14

• QOD: What is the name of the group who has kidnapped hundreds of children in an oil rich African country?– Boko Haram

• Why is this group doing this?– “Many Nigerians suggest the emergence of Boko

Haram was in part a reaction to this systematized corruption,” Chayes wrote in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times.

World Geography EOC ReviewBelow is an example of what your map will look like when we are complete.

Your Map will include items on the back …We will process significant information on the back of your map.

The World in Spatial TermsRefers to the connections that people, places, and

environments have to one another because of their location on the earth’s surface.

1. Maps represent places on the Earth’s surface, and can be used to answer geographic questions, infer relationships, and analyze change.

2. Processes of spatial diffusion has influenced the past, shapes the present, and will influence events in the future.

3. National boundaries (borders), generally set up by governments, are the product of both physical and human processes.

4. Location, or a specific place on earth, does not determine exactly how we live, but it does influence our lives.

Task: Map Set-up

1. Put the 6 pages together to create the map.

2. Write name in the top, left corner of the map.

3. Grab a pair of scissors and glue stick

4. Cut out the legend and glue to the bottom, left corner of the map.

Borders and Boundaries

• The world is divided into many separate independent, national states, each with its own sovereign government.

What factors determine where boundaries between countries are

established?

Glue Borders study card on the back of the map.

Task: Locate and label places of geopolitical significance.

Population Pyramids What do population pyramids tell us?

Task: Population Pyramids

• Look at the (10) population pyramids from your student packet and discuss the challenges that each country is facing or may face in the future.

• Label Pyramids

• LDC (less developed country)

• MDC (More developed country)

• Fast Slow or negative growth

• Paste pyramids on back of map

• Cut out the two blocks of people and place them in the two highly populated countries

• Cut out the ‘growth’ images and glue them on or near two fast growing countries

Task: Population Patterns and Movement

• Cut out the blocks of people and glue them in or near highly populated countries.

• Cut out the growth images and glue them on or near two fast growing countries.

• Cut out factors influencing where people settle study cards (2) and glue them on the back of the map.

Task: Using the migration map below – draw arrows on your map to show the migration routes. Why did each of these migrations occur?

Cut and glue factors of migration study cards to the back of the map.

Why do different regions fall into these different categories?

Net migrations

Population Issues

How can we address problems facing fast growing populations?

What are the challenges facing shrinking populations? How can they

be addressed?

Places and Regions1. Regions are how geographers organize the

study of geography. 2. Earth is crisscrossed and layered with a system

of complex divisions. 3. Some boundaries are blurred, based largely on

personal or group perceptions.4. Every place has certain physical and human

characteristics that make it different from any other.

Task: Regions of the World

• Work as a group to come to a consensus on how to divide the world into regions.

• Be able to defend your division of the world.

• Cut out the types of regions (1) and Cultural Regions study cards (3), and glue to the back of the map.

• Optional: Regional Wall Graffiti

Task: Characteristics of a Place

• Work as a group, analyze each image:– What do you see?– What can you infer about the place?– Where do you think the picture was taken?– Why? What clues from the image helped you

determine the location?

• When your group has finished analyzing each image, cut out and glue the images near their respective location.

Physical Systems• The earth’s system is made up of four

interactive components: atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere

• Both internal and external forces create, maintain, and modify the earth’s surface.

• Landforms, soil, and climate greatly affect the plants and animals that can be found in each place.

Task: Physical Features

• Work as a group to locate, draw, and label the physical features listed in your resource packet. Be sure to reference the key.

Your map should be starting to look like this one….

Task: Physical Processes

• Glue the study cards on the back of your map.– Tectonic plate movement– Hydrosphere

How does climate affect how people live?

Simple summary of climatic zones:

Polar - very cold and dry all yearTemperate - cold winters and mild summersArid - dry, hot all yearTropical - hot and wet all yearMediterranean - mild winters, dry hot summersMountains (tundra) very cold all year

The classification is based on maximum and minimum temperatures and the temperature range as well as the total and seasonal distribution of

precipitation.

Earth’s oceans are in constant motion.

Soil and VegetationHow do soil and climate help to determine the vegetation of a region?

Task: Physical Processes

• Glue the study cards on the back of your map.– Atmosphere and Weather– Climate

Human Systems• Culture is a people’s way of life.• Different cultures have different social

structures, distributions of wealth, and institutions.

• Religion permeates every culture in some way, and each has its own beliefs, moral code, and traditions.

Culture

What are the different aspects of a person’s culture?

How are each of us a product of our culture?

Task: Cultural Hearths – Draw a red heart on your map for each of the culture hearths on the map below.

Can you identify why each of these is a cultural hearth? Think history…..

Task: Language – cut the key to the left from your student packet and glue it next to your physical key on your map and label languages on your map using this key.

Task: World Religions

• Cut out and glue the religions study cards on to the back of your map.

• Read over the characteristics of each religion.

• Create or use a symbol for each religion and add it to your key.

• Use the symbols you created to mark the location and spread of each religion on your map.

Economic Geography

• What are the three main types of economic systems?

• How are developed countries and developing countries different?

• What factors affect the location of the different types of economic activities?

• Explain the relationship between economic activities, economic development, and economic systems?

Task: Economic Geography

• Cut and glue in the study cards for: Indicators of Development (1), levels of economic development and economic activities (1), and economic systems (4).

Political Geography

Task: Political Geography

• Cut and glue in the study cards for the different types of government.

Is your map starting to look like this?

Environment and Society• Humans sometimes must respond to conditions

of extreme weather or natural disasters.• Humans depend on, adapt to, and modify their

physical environment.• People seek to use renewable resources, to

conserve non-renewable resources, and to pursue sustainable development to protect our environment.

• Geographers study how people interact with the environment and how people use resources.

Environment and Society

Discuss ways, both positive and negative, that people adapt to or modify their environment?

What are some ways in which the physical environment affects peoples lifestyles?

Give one example of how your own activities are influenced by your environment.

Weather

1. Complete your chart using your knowledge and classroom resources.

2. Using the symbols you created, draw the symbols on the front of your own map in the appropriate places for each phenomena.

3. Cut out the chart and glue it to the back of your map.

Weather Phenomena and Natural Disasters

• Create a symbol for various weather phenomena and natural disasters and add them to your legend:– Hurricanes– Tornadoes– Tsunamis– Monsoons

• Add the symbols to the map in the area in which they occur.

Task: ResourcesOil (on key)

Coal

Lumber

Diamonds/gemstones

Nuclear Power

1. Add these images to your key.

2. Using the maps that follow or your textbook, look up the main locations for these resources and draw them in the proper regions on your world map.

Oil Reserves

Coal

Timber

Diamonds/Gemstones

Nuclear Energy

Your map should be starting to look like this….

Task: Environment and Society

• Cut and glue in the study cards for:– Effects of Environment on People– How People Modify the Environment– Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes– Earth’s Resources

Environment and Society

Why do nations carry on trade with each other?Unequal distribution of resources (scarcity)

How does the location of resources determine the development level of a nation?

What has been the impact of technology on the use, distribution, and management of natural

resources? Provide examples.

Uses of Geography• Both physical features and cultures change over

time.

• The management and distribution of natural resources affects trade patterns and poses problems, especially if there is scarcity.

• Globalization, including outsourcing and the creation of free trade zones, is changing economies around the world today and providing challenges for the future.

• Democratic systems are gradually replacing many authoritative regimes worldwide.

Determining Levels of Development

HDI – Levels of Economic Development

Members of NATO NAFTA

WTO

EU

Supranational Organizations

ConflictsDraw a caution symbol near the following sites on your map to represent these areas of conflict.• Ireland• Bosnia• Israel• Rwanda• Sudan• South Africa• Chechnya• Uganda• North Korea

Conflicts

Look at your map, discuss each of the conflicts listed on your map. Who was at odds? Why were they fighting? What was the result of the conflict? Or, is it still on going? Be prepared to share out.

How does conflict lead to cultural change?

How is conflict seen through the eyes of differing cultures?

Does your map Look Like This?

Globalization

Why do nations carry on trade with each other?

How is globalization transforming our world?

Task: Uses of Geography

• Cut and glue the following chapter study cards to the back of the map;– How Regions Change– How Geography Affects the Location of Economic

Activities– Specialization Leads to Trade– Causes of Globalization– Global Trade Patterns– Roots of Change: Conflict

Quiz answers1. Push/Pull2. India/China3. Less developed4. Africa5. Africa6. Plants and animals/living

organisms7. India8. Free Trade associations9. B/USA10. North America/Brazil or South

America11. Africa12. Conflict

13. Totalitarian state14. Communism15. Unequal distribution of resources16. Europe/North America or USA/ Japan17. Australia18. South America19. Asia20. Africa21. Asia22. North America23. Africa24. Europe/Africa/Antarctica25. Africa