9.1 DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION:

What makes this a political map?

Five Themes of Human and Physical Geography

Location

• Describes where a place is -- its position on the Earth's surface. Two ways to describe location: Relative Location and Absolute Location.

• Relative Location: The description of a place in relation to another.

• Absolute Location: The exact location of a place using lines of longitude and latitude.

Place

• Describes an area in terms of it's physical and human characteristics such as climate, landforms, waterways, language, religion, social activities, etc...

Human/Environment Interaction

• Describes how people change their environment or adapt to it

• examples - Levees, Damms, Dikes, Terraces, Bridges

Movement

• Describes the movement of people, goods, and ideas. This occurs through migration, trade, and cultural diffusion.

Region

• Describes an area that has its own unifying characteristics. This is done politically -- the Middle East is a political region, physically -- the rainforests of Brazil, and culturally -- Muslim areas are influenced by the religion of Islam.

Types of Maps

Understand Maps and Cartography

For the world map quiz, be able to label the following:

Rivers: Nile, Indus, Yellow, Euphrates, Tigris, Amazon, Congo, Yangtze Euphrates, Tigris, Amazon, Congo, Yangtze

Mountain Ranges: Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Ural Mountains

Bodies of Water: All oceans, Med. Sea, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Sea of Japan, East China Sea, South China Sea, English Channel

Peninsulas: Korean, Italian, Greek, Arabian, Indian

Archipelagos: Philippines, Hawaii, Indonesia

Isthmus: Panama

Deserts: Sahara, Gobi, Kalahari, Arabian.

All of the continents

Practice Questions

1. The geographic isolation of a society most often leads to the (q 3 Ju 03)

1) development of trade 3) strengthening of traditional culture

2) promotion of cultural diffusion 4)growth of international alliances

2. One reason that many historians study geography is to (#1 -Ju 09)

(1) help predict changes in government

(2) show connections between people and places

(3) tell when events took place

(4) explore the value systems of early people

3. Knowing the latitude of a location would be most helpful in determining (4 Ju' 11 )

(1) language (3) population

(2) temperature (4) time

4. A geographic similarity between Italy and India is that both of these countries are located

(#2 -Ja'10)

(1) on peninsulas

(2) on archipelagos

(3) between two oceans

(4) south of the equator

• Separated the cultures of Europe and Asia

• Hindered, but did not prevent, invaders from entering India

• Terraced to increase food production in China

5. Which geographic feature is being described in these statements? (1- Ag'09)

(1) river valleys (3) mountains

(2) steppes (4) tundra

Which feature would most often be shown on a political map? June ’03

(1) topography (3) capital cities

(2) type of climate (4) elevation

2 How did topography and climate affect the history of Africa? Jan. ’04

(1) The slave trade declined in western Africa.

(2) Islam spread into southern Africa.

(3) European colonization of central Africa was delayed.

(4) Trade increased between southern and northern Africa.

3 Italy, Korea, Spain, and India are similar in that each is considered Jan. ’04

(1) an archipelago

(2) a peninsula

(3) a landlocked nation

(4) an island nation

3 Which geographic factor had the greatest influence on the early history of South Asia and

China? June ’04

(1) river valleys (3) vast coastlines

(2) island locations (4) tropical rain forests

4 What would a geographer conducting research be most likely to do? (2 Aug 13)

(1) use carbon-14 to determine the age of artifacts

(2) analyze the reasons women vote for certain candidates

(3) observe the effects of wind patterns on regional trade

(4) design a survey to determine the online spending habits of young people

5 Which geographic factor contributed to the formation of independent city-states in ancient

Greece? (4 Aug 13)

(1) tropical rainforests

(2) fertile farmland

(3) navigable rivers

(4) mountainous topography

6 What does a topographic map show? (1 Aug 12)

(1) climate regions (3) patterns of trade

(2) ethnic distributions (4) physical features