World Geography - 9th Grade Pre-AP
Teacher: M. Cisneros
Room: A-210
Geography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Geography (from Greek γεωγραφßα, geographia, lit. "earth description") is the science that studies the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (276-194 BC).Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of the natural and the human phenomena (geography as the study of distribution), the area studies (places and regions), the study of the man-land relationship, and the research in the earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the Earth and all of its human and natural complexities - not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the bridge between the human and the physical science". Geography is divided into two main branches: human geography and physical geography. |
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This map shows all the countries that have declared their independence from the United Kingdom.
Sep 16, 2014
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
Scots will head to the polls on Thursday to vote on a referendum that could make Scotland an independent nation, making the 307-year-old United Kingdom not so united anymore.
There’s been a scramble to convince the country’s 4.2 million registered voters to vote “no,” after a major poll last week showed that the results might be in favor of independence. Just today, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave an impassioned speech, in a bid to keep the United Kingdom together. It went a little something like this: See video here.
The pros and cons of independence were summed up brilliantly by British comedian John Oliver on his show, Last Week Tonight. He ultimately ended the segment with a plea to Scots to vote “no”: See the video here.
If Scotland does becomes independent this week, it will join a long list of nations that have freed themselves from the Empire’s chokehold. The map below shows you all the countries that used to be part of the British Empire, and the date their independence was recognized by the UK:
Scotland votes "no" on independence, will remain in the UK (Sep 19, 2014)
Read the full story here.
Sep 16, 2014
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
Scots will head to the polls on Thursday to vote on a referendum that could make Scotland an independent nation, making the 307-year-old United Kingdom not so united anymore.
There’s been a scramble to convince the country’s 4.2 million registered voters to vote “no,” after a major poll last week showed that the results might be in favor of independence. Just today, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave an impassioned speech, in a bid to keep the United Kingdom together. It went a little something like this: See video here.
The pros and cons of independence were summed up brilliantly by British comedian John Oliver on his show, Last Week Tonight. He ultimately ended the segment with a plea to Scots to vote “no”: See the video here.
If Scotland does becomes independent this week, it will join a long list of nations that have freed themselves from the Empire’s chokehold. The map below shows you all the countries that used to be part of the British Empire, and the date their independence was recognized by the UK:
Scotland votes "no" on independence, will remain in the UK (Sep 19, 2014)
Read the full story here.
Links
Why Study Geography
Want to know what Geography is all about? Watch this video
World Geography on Pinterest
Great Geography Resources
Earth-Sun relationship
great youtube video for learning how the Earth-Sun relationship affects our climate, weather and the change of seasons
2011 Japan Tsunami
Interactive article to explain tectonics, how and why tsunami was so devastating. Also provides facts and interactive models
Plate Tectonics
Briefly explaining plate tectonics
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Found out about hazards/disasters, geological information and much, much more!
Layers of the Earth Rap
A rap song about the different layers of our internal Earth. Using the beat of Wiz Khalifa's song, Black and Yellow, its very catchy, educational, upbeat and FUN! enjoy!
World Factbook
Use this link to find out anything and everything about any country in the world! It breaks information down by population, ethnicities, birth/death rates, literacy rates, everything. Its really cool :)
USGS- Desertification
What exactly is desertification? How is impacting people especially in dry, arid places like the Sahel of Africa? Find out that and more as you read this interesting article
National Geographic
Great tool for accurate and current information about our world
Information on Countries: Population
Find out any and everything about any country's population. A great tool!
Population Growth and Distribution
Analyze how the world's population has grown from recorded history up to the projected year 2020. Notice how the more populous countries of India and China are still the world's densely populated areas still! Also, notice how big populations and great civilizations began around major bodies of water
French Declaration
In honor of Celebration Freedom Week, Im sharing the link to read on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. In a nutshell, it is France's form of a Declaration. During the Revolutionary War, where the colonists were fighting with England, French soldiers aided the colonists. They took back the ideas of freedom, life and pursuit of happiness to France, and being tired of the lavishness of King Louis and the downward spiral of their economy, took matters into their own hands and had their own revolution and a declaration of their own. Note the similarities between our two declarations...happy reading!
Music Video- Declaration Parody (Too Late to Apologize Parody)
Check out this rad video about the Declaration of Independence, sung to the beat of "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring One Republic.
World's Most Typical Person
See the interesting facts that National Geographic has complied to give you our planet's most typical person
United Nations Environment Program
Great look at how the United Nations charts and documents environmental issues, programs to help reduce waste and pollution and ideas on how you can help to make our planet and environment safer and cleaner!
Maps 101
This site is awesome for maps, current events and even games!
Globe TrekkerTV
Watch amazing and informative adventures from around the world from some of our planet's remotest, yet exotic places!
Maps/Atlas
Please utilize! a GREAT tool!!
World Culture Maps
If you want to see and know where some of the world's most popular religions are practiced, where specific languages are spoken, political and physical relief maps, climate regions or even before and afters, please utilize this site. Many of these maps you will actually see and use in class.
How Globalization Can Have Negative Effects
Globalization can be a wonderful thing because it can bring us together, we can share ideas such as technology and culture, however, with all good things there can be some catch 22's. Check this video out to understand the negative implications of globalization. Not only does this happen in other parts of the world like China, India or Mexico where, we as Americans, can get cheap products, but think about how globalization has had a major impact on our American economy with corporations now outsourcing their businesses. By 2050, economists speculate that the US will be the only Western country to still somewhat have an economy in the playing field, the other countries, known as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) will be the new dominant key players in the global economic market.
CNN Student news
Great site if you would like to keep tract of what is going on in the world. Also can be used for current events! :)
Constructing the Panama Canal -1912 Reel
This movie reel is beyond awesome because it is 101 years old! To see a black/reel from that era that shows relatively good with excellent sound quality is so historically groovy! Now, because it is from 1912, it is a bit "boring", however, the bigger picture is that you actually see the engineering marvel as we know it, being constructd from the ground up. No wonder the Panama Canal is one of the engineering marvels of the modern world!
Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick policy and the Panama Canal
The significance of the Panama Canal being built, is that it allowed for shorter travel trading distances. Instead of ships having to travel around the entire continent of South America, now, they could easily pass through the canal, with a nominal fee of course. Few people actually know that the original site of the planned marvel was not Panama, but Nicaragua. Check this awesome video out.
Animaniacs Sing-a-long: Panama Canal
Ok, if you are a big kid like i am, you will definitely enjoy this sing-a-long from the cartoon group known as the Animaniacs (Yakko, Wakko and Dot). Its cute, fun and very catchy. Sing-a-long and learn about how ships travel through the canal!
Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
Watch about the environmental effects of nuclear energy and how it doesn't just effect local areas, radiation can effect people globally. Scary thought!
Bubonic Plague Black Death
You will appreciate the history lesson being sung to the tune of Hollaback Girl.
Population Pyramid
Use the link to see the demographic information for any country in the world. You can also use it to double check if you have shaded your pyramid correctly.
National Geographic - Child Brides
Wrapping up our discussions about North Africa and SW Asia with regards to women's rights, this is an interesting short video about a common, yet illegal practice, child brides.
Competition for African Oil
If you remember in the movie, Hotel Rwanda, the lead actor had to continue to bribe the general with money or whatever he had to keep him and everyone at the hotel safe. The same applies when it comes to oil and lucrative profits.
South Asia
Historical influences, empires, religion, colonialism, and contemporary issues.
Oceania
Indigenous People of Australia and Oceania
Want to know what Geography is all about? Watch this video
World Geography on Pinterest
Great Geography Resources
Earth-Sun relationship
great youtube video for learning how the Earth-Sun relationship affects our climate, weather and the change of seasons
2011 Japan Tsunami
Interactive article to explain tectonics, how and why tsunami was so devastating. Also provides facts and interactive models
Plate Tectonics
Briefly explaining plate tectonics
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Found out about hazards/disasters, geological information and much, much more!
Layers of the Earth Rap
A rap song about the different layers of our internal Earth. Using the beat of Wiz Khalifa's song, Black and Yellow, its very catchy, educational, upbeat and FUN! enjoy!
World Factbook
Use this link to find out anything and everything about any country in the world! It breaks information down by population, ethnicities, birth/death rates, literacy rates, everything. Its really cool :)
USGS- Desertification
What exactly is desertification? How is impacting people especially in dry, arid places like the Sahel of Africa? Find out that and more as you read this interesting article
National Geographic
Great tool for accurate and current information about our world
Information on Countries: Population
Find out any and everything about any country's population. A great tool!
Population Growth and Distribution
Analyze how the world's population has grown from recorded history up to the projected year 2020. Notice how the more populous countries of India and China are still the world's densely populated areas still! Also, notice how big populations and great civilizations began around major bodies of water
French Declaration
In honor of Celebration Freedom Week, Im sharing the link to read on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. In a nutshell, it is France's form of a Declaration. During the Revolutionary War, where the colonists were fighting with England, French soldiers aided the colonists. They took back the ideas of freedom, life and pursuit of happiness to France, and being tired of the lavishness of King Louis and the downward spiral of their economy, took matters into their own hands and had their own revolution and a declaration of their own. Note the similarities between our two declarations...happy reading!
Music Video- Declaration Parody (Too Late to Apologize Parody)
Check out this rad video about the Declaration of Independence, sung to the beat of "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring One Republic.
World's Most Typical Person
See the interesting facts that National Geographic has complied to give you our planet's most typical person
United Nations Environment Program
Great look at how the United Nations charts and documents environmental issues, programs to help reduce waste and pollution and ideas on how you can help to make our planet and environment safer and cleaner!
Maps 101
This site is awesome for maps, current events and even games!
Globe TrekkerTV
Watch amazing and informative adventures from around the world from some of our planet's remotest, yet exotic places!
Maps/Atlas
Please utilize! a GREAT tool!!
World Culture Maps
If you want to see and know where some of the world's most popular religions are practiced, where specific languages are spoken, political and physical relief maps, climate regions or even before and afters, please utilize this site. Many of these maps you will actually see and use in class.
How Globalization Can Have Negative Effects
Globalization can be a wonderful thing because it can bring us together, we can share ideas such as technology and culture, however, with all good things there can be some catch 22's. Check this video out to understand the negative implications of globalization. Not only does this happen in other parts of the world like China, India or Mexico where, we as Americans, can get cheap products, but think about how globalization has had a major impact on our American economy with corporations now outsourcing their businesses. By 2050, economists speculate that the US will be the only Western country to still somewhat have an economy in the playing field, the other countries, known as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) will be the new dominant key players in the global economic market.
CNN Student news
Great site if you would like to keep tract of what is going on in the world. Also can be used for current events! :)
Constructing the Panama Canal -1912 Reel
This movie reel is beyond awesome because it is 101 years old! To see a black/reel from that era that shows relatively good with excellent sound quality is so historically groovy! Now, because it is from 1912, it is a bit "boring", however, the bigger picture is that you actually see the engineering marvel as we know it, being constructd from the ground up. No wonder the Panama Canal is one of the engineering marvels of the modern world!
Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick policy and the Panama Canal
The significance of the Panama Canal being built, is that it allowed for shorter travel trading distances. Instead of ships having to travel around the entire continent of South America, now, they could easily pass through the canal, with a nominal fee of course. Few people actually know that the original site of the planned marvel was not Panama, but Nicaragua. Check this awesome video out.
Animaniacs Sing-a-long: Panama Canal
Ok, if you are a big kid like i am, you will definitely enjoy this sing-a-long from the cartoon group known as the Animaniacs (Yakko, Wakko and Dot). Its cute, fun and very catchy. Sing-a-long and learn about how ships travel through the canal!
Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion
Watch about the environmental effects of nuclear energy and how it doesn't just effect local areas, radiation can effect people globally. Scary thought!
Bubonic Plague Black Death
You will appreciate the history lesson being sung to the tune of Hollaback Girl.
Population Pyramid
Use the link to see the demographic information for any country in the world. You can also use it to double check if you have shaded your pyramid correctly.
National Geographic - Child Brides
Wrapping up our discussions about North Africa and SW Asia with regards to women's rights, this is an interesting short video about a common, yet illegal practice, child brides.
Competition for African Oil
If you remember in the movie, Hotel Rwanda, the lead actor had to continue to bribe the general with money or whatever he had to keep him and everyone at the hotel safe. The same applies when it comes to oil and lucrative profits.
South Asia
Historical influences, empires, religion, colonialism, and contemporary issues.
Oceania
Indigenous People of Australia and Oceania