DIVIDING THE EARTH INTO REGIONS Unit 2 Lesson

DIVIDING THE EARTH INTO REGIONS Unit 2, Lesson 5: What are Some Ways to Organize or Regionalize the Earth? 1

2 REGION: an area with at least one characteristic or feature that sets it apart from other areas

3 What is one way to divide Michigan into regions? Review

4 Review

5 Review

6 Review

7 Review

8 Superior Upland Review

9 Superior Upland Central Lowland Review

10 What is one way to divide the United States into regions? Review

11 Review

12 Review

13 Review

14 Review

15 What map shows the best way to divide the Earth into regions? Review

16 NP SP Hemisphere

17 NP Equator = 0 o SP Hemisphere

18 NP Northern Hemisphere Equator = 0 o SP Hemisphere

19 Northern Hemisphere

20 NP Northern Hemisphere Equator = 0 o SP Hemisphere

21 NP Northern Hemisphere Equator = 0 o Southern Hemisphere SP Hemisphere

22 Southern Hemisphere

23 Could a country be in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? Why or why not? Hemisphere

24 Hemisphere

25 NP SP Hemisphere

Prime Meridian = 0 o 26 NP SP Hemisphere

27 Hemisphere

28 Hemisphere

29 Is the United States in the Western or Eastern Hemisphere? Hemisphere

30 Hemisphere

31 Other countries in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres Hemisphere

32 What is special about the country of Kiribati? Hemisphere

33 CONTINENT: a large unbroken land mass surrounded by water Continents

34 How many continents are there? Continents

35 Write the names of the continents. Continents

36 Continents

37 Continents

38 a large unbroken land mass surrounde d by water? ? Continents

39 Continents

40 Continents

41 a large unbroken land mass surrounde d by water? ? Continents

42 Continents

43 Continents

44 What would Antarctica look like without the ice? Continents

45 a large unbroken land mass OR an icecapped group of islands? ? Continents

46 How might visitors to Earth describe it? Continents

47 Other Ways to Regionalize

48 Other Ways to Regionalize

49 Other Ways to Regionalize

50 Other Ways to Regionalize

51 Other Ways to Regionalize

52 Less Economically Developed Countries Other Ways to Regionalize

53 Less Economically Developed Countries More Economically Developed Countries Other Ways to Regionalize

54 Other Ways to Regionalize

55 Other Ways to Regionalize

56 Other Ways to Regionalize

57 By hemisphere By continent By time zone Ways to divide the World into Regions By natural characteristics By human characteristics By ? ? ?

58 Property of Oakland Schools Author: Carol Egbo Editors: Amy Bloom and Kimberly Hase Galek