Geography of the Western Hemisphere                                               Early Civilization                  European Exploration

Western Hemisphere                    regions                                              societies                                    trade routes

Geological processes                    continent                                           perception                                 explorers

Ice Age                                         physical features                               civilization                                Line of Demarcation

Physical environment                   political features                               land bridge                                Treaty of Tordesillas

Geologic history                           economic features                            theories                                      Atlantic coastline

Plate tectonics                               cultural features                                environment                             waterways

Coast line                                      political boundaries                       


Geography of the Western Hemisphere

·      How can the Western Hemisphere be located and represented?

·      What are geological processes?

·      What is a geologic history?

·      What countries and regions make up the Western Hemisphere?

·      How are continents, countries and regions of the Western Hemisphere organized?

·      How do political boundaries change?

·      How do human actions change the physical environment?


Can you...
fill out a graphic organizer containing what makes up the Western Hemisphere(landforms, bodies of water, weather) compare and analyze globes, maps, aerial and satellite photographs &computer models of the Western Hemisphere   
organize information using a table    
draw inferences of how weather, temperature and water shaped the physical environment of the Western Hemisphere 
create a timeline of the Ice Age 
compare the different characteristics of a physical, political, economical and cultural map    

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