5 Themes of Geography Project 12 th Grade

Human Geography Project # 2

Power Point Presentation  
12th grade

The Five Themes of Geography

Due date: Friday, March 28^th 2014

Make a PPT on the five themes of Geography on ONE country I will assign to you, answering the following 18 questions only with pictures, and a CAPTION below it that summarizes the content of the picture. Each question must be answered with at least one picture and one caption.

Hand in to your teacher through email address adrianagomez77@gmail.com , as well as in a CD that runs with Windows 7 on FRI 28th

Include:

1.     Introduction                                                               5 pts

2.     Content ( all 18 questions, pictures ,captions)     32 pts

3.     Sources of information- Bibliography                     5 pts

4.     Correct grammar and spelling.                                8 pts

5.     Punctuality                                                                 10 pts

TOTAL PTS 60

EXAMPLE

·         Describe the people who live there (nationalities, traditions, etc.).

                                                             Many Scottish people have ginger hair.

  

                                              Traditional Scottish wedding in a castle, men wear kilt.

                                                          

RESEARCH QUESTIONS        

Location

·         Where is the place (longitude, latitude, continent, hemispheres)?

·         How far away from home is it (travel time by plane, distance in miles or kilometers)?

·         What countries are neighbors of the country ?

Place

·         Describe the place (size, shape).

·         What is the climate (temperature, rainfall)?

·         What kinds of physical features are there (mountains, rivers, deserts)?

·         Describe the people who live there (nationalities, traditions, etc.).

Human-Environment Interactions

·         How do people use the land (farming, herding, mining, industry)?

·         How have people changed the land?

·         Where do most people live (near a river or coastline, in the mountains)?

·         Why do you think people settled there (water, safety, food, natural beauty)?

Movement

·         How will you travel to the place (route, drive, fly, walk)?

·         Does the country export goods to other places? If so, what and where?

·         Does the country import goods from other places? If so, what and from where?

·         Why would people leave or move to the country (jobs, family, climate, war)?

Regions

·         What language(s) do people speak?

·         What are the political divisions of the country (states, provinces, republics)?

·         How is the country similar to any of its neighbors (traditions, language, climate)?