Unit 1

Chapter 1
Lesson 1
Geography and changing Earth
 1. Location
■ Describes where places are at on Earth.
■ Absolute location- exact location on Earth
■ latitude/longitude
■ Hemispheres
■ Address (gps)
■ Relative location- where you are compared to something else
■ Miles
■ Distance
■ Direction
 Cardinal directions
North
South
East
West
 Hemispheres
■ Each half of the
Earth is a
hemisphere
■ North and South
divided by equator
■ East and West
divided by
 2. Regions
■ Earth is divided into
sections based traits
that the sections
share
■ Example traits
■ Climate
■ Language
■ Landforms
3. Place
■ What it looks like
when you get
there.
■ Vegetation
■ Wildlife
■ Landforms
■ People
■ Language
 4. Movement
■ How goods, people, and
ideas move from place
to place
■ Exports and imports
 5. Human-Environment
Interaction

■ Refers to how humans have changed the environment

of a place.
■ Building houses
■ Clearing land
 5. Human-Environment
Interaction
■ On the left side of your ISN, next to
human-environment interaction

■ Show two examples of human

environment interaction creatively and
colorfully
Western Hemisphere
■ Half of Earth west of the prime meridian
■ Contains the continents of
■ North America
■ Central America
■ South America
North America
● Canada
● United States
● Mexico

Central America
● Land that stretches from Southern Mexico to Northern
Colombia in South America
Isthmus
● Narrow strip of land that
connects two larger land areas
and is bordered by water
○ Example Panama
 Archipelagoes
● A group of islands,
located between North and
South America

● Also known as the

Caribbean Islands
Middle America
● Central American
combined with the
Caribbean Islands