World Regions

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World Regions

• Introduction

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Learning about the World

• Despite differences in appearance, language or
  ways of life, the people of the world share basic
  needs for food, clothing, shelter.

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What is Social Studies?

• Civics and Government
• History
• Economics
• Geography
• Culture and Society

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Why Geography Matters

• By studying geography, you can find answers to
  questions about Earth and the people who live on
  it.
• Geographers, the people who study geography, try
  to understand relationships between people and
  places on Earth and between different places.

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Remember MR HELP

• Movement
• Regions
• Human Environment
• Location
• Place

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Location

• Everything on Earth has its own location, or
  where it can be found. The relative location of a
  place tells where it is in relation to other
  places.
• The Absolute location, or exact location, of
  place is its global address where it is on the
  whole Earth.

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Place

• Every location on Earth has a place identity made
  up of unique features.
• Landforms, bodies of water, climate, plant and
  animal life are some of the physical features.
  Buildings, roads, and people are some of a
  places human features.

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Regions

• Areas on Earth that differ from each other
  because of their features are called regions.
• Such features can be physical, human, economic,
  cultural, or political.

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Movement

• People, products, and ideas move from place to
  place by transportation and communication.
• Geography helps you understand how people came to
  live where they do.

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Movement Continued

• It also helps you understand the causes and
  effects of movement.
• A cause is an action that makes something else
  happen.
• An effect is what happens as a result of that
  action

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Human-Environment Interactions

• Humans and their surrounding affect each other.
• People modify, or change, their surroundings by
  building cities, for example.
• Surroundings can affect people, causing them to
  adapt, or change to fit, the way they act, such
  as wearing warm clothing in cold places.

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Why History Matters

• Many things contribute to the way people live,
  and one of the most important is history, or what
  happened in the past.
• History affects all people.
• Some beliefs and customs, or ways of doing
  things, have been passed down from generation to
  generation.

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Relating Events in Time

• In history, time is the main subject of concern.
• The time order in which events in history take
  place is called chronology.
• Historians, the people who study history, analyze
  the chronology of events to find links between
  the past and the present.

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Finding Evidence

• Historians look for evidence, or clues, about the
  past in the objects and records that people have
  left behind.
• Historians analyze buildings, works of art,
  photographs, and everyday tools, not just books
  and papers.
• They listen or read the stories people tell about
  their pasts.

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Finding Evidence Cont.

• A story told aloud by a person who did not write
  down what happened or who did not have a written
  language is an Oral History.

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Identifying Perspective

• By reading the words and studying the objects of
  people in the past, historians begin to
  understand perspectives.
• Perspectives are different points of view.

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Understanding Frames of Reference

• Historians have a frame of reference, their own
  perspective, as they study their past.
• People need to be careful not to judge the
  actions of people in the past based on the way
  people act today

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Frames of Ref. cont.

• Historical empathy is the ability to understand
  people of the past in their own frame of
  reference.

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Drawing Conclusions

• To understand an event in the past, historians
  need to analyze its causes and effects.
• When you analyze something you break it into its
  parts and look closely at how those parts connect
  with one another
• Then you can summarize and draw a conclusion
  about how or why it happened.

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Why Culture and Society Matter

• As you study world regions, you will compare and
  contrast how people live.
• The ways people act, speak and what they believe
  make up a culture.
• Each human group, or society, has a culture that
  is unique in some ways.

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Why culture Society matter cont...

• Their heritage is the wealth of ideas that have
  been passed down through their history.

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We will be studying...

• The United States
• Canada
• Middle (Central) America
• South America
• Australia

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Why Civics and Government Matter

• To keep order and resolve conflicts in a society,
  people need a government.
• A government is a system of leaders and laws that
  helps people live safely together in their
  community, state, or country.

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Why Civics and Government Matter Cont...

• There a different kinds of government in the
  world.
• Citizens rights and responsibilities vary from
  one kind of government to the next.
• Civic participation means being concerned with
  and involved in issues related to your community,
  state, or country, or the entire world.

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Why Economics Matters

• To support its people, a society must have an
  economy.
• Economics is the study of the way that goods and
  wealth are produced, distributed, and used in the
  world.
• The people must be able to make, buy, sell, and
  trade goods and services to get what they need
  and want.