Post on 13-Jan-2016
Using the notes we took on Friday, what is the definition of Geography?
“Allah’s Recruits”
1.What are the reasons that people may not think Jamal Harwood is a Muslim?
1.What is the estimated number of Muslim converts in the U.S. and Europe?
•What is the percentage of Americans who have a positive image of Islam?
• 20%•Why do you think that is? How do you feel about this?
1. Location2.Place3.Interaction
between people and their Environment
4. Movement
5. Region
•Position on the Earth’s surface
•RELATIVE LOCATION–Chicago is in the State of Illinois
•ABSOLUTE LOCATION–Using the lines of latitude and longitude
•Measures the distance north and south of the Equator
•Measures the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
•What is the difference between Absolute and Relative Location?
•On a map which direction do the lines of Longitude and Latitude go? What does Longitude and Latitude measure the distance from?
•Places are described in terms of their physical and human characteristics
•Physical Characteristics–Landforms, climate, soil, and animal life of a place
• Human Characteristics–People’s way of life
•Their activities•Means of transportation•Religion, languages
•People change the world around them
•Clear forests•Plow Fields
Hidden Costs1.Polluted air, water and
land
PEOPLE ADAPTPEOPLE ADAPT•Don’t change environment but adapt to it
BELL RINGERBELL RINGER•WHAT IS INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT? Give one example
•Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas
•MIGRATION: travel from place to place
•Food•Freedom•Natural disasters•War, Against their will
• TRADE
• Exports = sent out of country
• Imports = goods brought into country
• IDEAS SPREAD
•Such as Religion
• INTERDENPENDENCE
• Dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge
•CONTINENTS•RELIGION•ECONOMIC FEATURES•POLITICAL WORLD
• PAKISTAN described in terms of
• Continent = SOUTH ASIA
• Religion = MUSLIM WORLD