Location
NCSS Content Standards:
3.e. Locate and describe varying land forms and geographic features, such as mountains, plateaus, islands, rain forests, deserts, and oceans, and explain their relationships within the ecosystem.
Location is defined as a position on the earth's surface. Since we will be learning about many areas of the world in this class, try your hand at the geography game below. There are three different levels in the game, each level will challenge you more than the previous one. This will be a good way to test your knowledge of different locations in the world.
https://library.thinkquest.org/10157/inffind.html
There are two types of location:
1. Relative Location - describing one location in relation to another location. An example of how to write a relative location description is "The United States is south of Canada and north of Mexico."
Above is a map of the Middle East. We will learn about this region at times throughout the year. Pick five countries on this map and write the relative location descriptions of them on a sheet of paper.
2. Absolute Location - is the exact location using the degrees of latitude and longitude. The image below shows the latitude and longitude lines.
Using the map on the link below, complete the absolute location worksheet. Use the center of each country to find the absolute location.
https://es.rice.edu/projects/Poli378/Maps/Korea/asia_regional.gif