Social Studies

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Social Studies

• NJ Chapter 1
• Visual Study Guide for Test 10/19/11

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Themes of Geography

• Interaction
• How people interact with their environment
• Our environment is our house or where we live,
  work, and go to school
• How do you interact with your environment?
• Cut the lawn?
• Trim trees?
• Put an addition on your house?
• Plant flowers in the garden?

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Themes of Geography

• Location
• Your address tells the LOCATION of your house
• What is your address?
• You can also tell location by saying Its across
  the street from the blue house, OR Its two
  houses down from the corner.
• How would you describe your location who do you
  live across from? Who do you live next to?

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Themes of Geography

• Movement
• How do people and things move from one place to
  another?
• Name at least 5 ways people and things can move.

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Compass Rose

• The compass rose tells us directions when we are
  looking at a map
• There are 4 main directions and 4 directions in
  between

NW
NE
SE
SW
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VOCABULARY WORDS

• Cartographer a person who makes maps

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VOCABULARY WORDS

• Geography the study of the Earth and everything
  on it

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VOCABULARY WORDS

• Geographer a person who studies the Earth and
  everything on it

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VOCABULARY WORDS

• Climate the type of weather a place has
  year-round
• Example NJ has 4 seasons fall, winter, spring,
  summer
• The desert has a HOT, DRY climate.
• Alaskas climate is COLD and SNOWY.

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VOCABULARY WORDS

• Equator an imaginary line around the globe that
  divides it into the North and the South
• North America is in the NORTH

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Counties

• There are 21 counties in NJ.
• We live in MORRIS COUNTY!

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Oceans

• There are 4 oceans in the world
• Arctic
• Atlantic
• Pacific
• Indian
• NJ borders the ATLANTIC ocean

Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
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Continents

• A continent is a HUGE piece of land
• There are 7 on Earth
• Australia
• Europe
• Asia
• Africa
• South America
• North America
• Antarctica
• We live on North America

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Our Country

• Has 50 states
• Is called the United States of America or USA
• We live in one of the smallest states, NJ

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State Symbols

• State Tree Red Oak

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State Symbols

• State Insect - Honeybee

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State Symbols

• State Animal - Horse

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State Symbols

• State Dinosaur Hadrosaurus Foulkii

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State Symbols

• State Flower - Violet

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State Symbols

• State Fish Brook Trout

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State Symbols

• State bird Eastern Goldfinch

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State Nickname

• The Garden State
• Why do you think we have this nickname?

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Latitude

• Latitude lines are imaginary lines that go across
  the Earth.
• They run east and west.
• They help us to locate places.
• They are named by numbers and degrees.
• The most popular line of latitude is the Equator.
  Its the hottest place on Earth!

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Longitude

• Longitude lines are imaginary lines that go up
  and down on the Earth.
• They run north and south.
• They help us to locate places.
• They are named by numbers and degrees.
• The most popular line of longitude is the Prime
  Meridian.

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Degrees

• Part of a circle that measures 1/360th of the
  total
• This is how latitude and longitude are measured

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County

• Division of a state for the purpose of government
  
• NJ has 21 of these
• We live in Morris!

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County Seat

• Town or city that is the home of a Countys
  government
• Our countys seat is Morristown

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Scale

• Part of a map that compares the maps size to the
  actual place being mapped

1 inch on a map 3 miles ___________ 3 miles
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Hemisphere

• Half of a sphere, half of the Earth
• The Earth is divided into the Northern and
  Southern hemispheres we live in the NORTH
• It is also divided into the Eastern and Western
  hemispheres we live in the EAST

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Important Facts

• Alaska is 75x the size of NJ!
• Texas is 34x the size of NJ!
• Some people believe there is a 5th ocean called
  the Southern Ocean down near Antarctica.