DO NOW: What comes to mind when you hear the word geography?

Aim: Why was Mesopotamia called the cradle of civilization?

Monday, September 30, 2013

REMINDERS

HOMEWORK PACKET #2 is due tomorrow.

What is geography?

The study of the environment, people, and the resources they use to live.

Geographers use the five themes of geography to help them study.

Five themes of geography

Five themes of geographyLocation - Where is it?

Place - What is it like?

Region - How are places similar or different?

Movement- how do people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another?

Human-Environment Interaction - How do people relate to the physical world.

We will be looking at the river valley civilizations through not only the 8

characteristics of civilization but the 5 themes of geography.

Mesopotamia is nicknamed “ The Land Between Two Rivers”

1. FERTILE CRESCENTA crescent-shaped region of good farmland created by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.

2.___________________ a system to bring water to support crops, especially to dry lands.

IRRIGATION

DO NOW: What comes to mind when you hear the word geography?

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