Buzz - 1.01 Time and Place in History

Buzz - 1.01 Time and Place in History

Timelines

• Timelines are used to help order events in which they have happened.

• We will see the terms BCE and CE to organize the dates from left to right
  
  They put events in context with one another - that means they put them in order.

Multiple Choice

How much is a millennium?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 1

Multiple Choice

Which date is the oldest date listed?

• 700 BCE

• 220 CE

• 79 AD

• 509 BCE

Multiple Choice

On a timeline which is the correct order from left to right

• CE, BCE, AD, BC

• BCE, CE

• CE, AD

• BC, BCE

Location Location Location

• Absolute Location -  spot that you know the exact address

• Relative Location - when it is described to be near somewhere

• Latitude and Longitude are exacts points and are known as coordinates.

Multiple Choice

If I say that my address is 555 South 50th street, which kind of location is that describing?

• Relative Location

• Absolute location

Map Components

• Parts of a map

• Title

• Map Key/Legend 

• Compass Rose

• Scale
  

• Grid System known as Latitude and Longitude

Multiple Choice

Which map component shows coordinates in degrees

• Map Legend

• Scale

• Title

• Coordinates

Multiple Choice

What map component shows what the colors or symbols mean?

• Title

• Scale

• Map Legend

• Grid

Types of Maps

• Political Maps - Show Boundaries, citties, countries

• Physical Maps - Show physical features such as landforms and bodies of water

• Special purpose maps - Show things such as resources, ideas, climates, population, plant life, and trade routes.
  
  

Multiple Choice

What type of map would show world religions?

• Political Map

• Population Map

• Physical Map

• Special Purpose Map

Multiple Choice

What type of map would show mountain ranges?

• Physical Maps

• Political Maps

• Special Purpose Maps

• Climate Maps

Map Projections

• Flat maps can not show size, shape or directions properly due to the earth being round.

• All maps show some kind of distortion to a map, which means it doesn't show it exactly as it is.

Multiple Choice

What happens when maps are created?

• Cartographers put things in maps that people only understand.

• What the map is showing can be distorted due to the earth being round and the map is drawn on a flat surface

• Only satellite images can make maps true

6 Essential Elements

• Geography is the study of living and nonliving things.

• World in Spatial - basic map

• Place and Region - what makes it unique and shares it with other areas

• Physical Systems - environmental change

• Human Systems - movement and settlement of people

• Enviroment - the affects of humans within the environment

• The use of geography - understanding the relationships among all elements

Multiple Choice

Which of the Essential Elements of Geography would show us the maps of the world we live in?

• World in Spatial Terms

• Place and Regions

• Physical Systems

• Environment