Everything you need to know about geography homework
Defines geography and covers globes, maps, land, water, air, plants, animals, people, and cultures. The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About... series provides kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of the...
| Main Author: | Zeman, Anne, 1951- |
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| Other Authors: | Kelly, Kate, 1958- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Scholastic Reference,
c2005.
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Scholastic homework reference series
Everything you need to know about homework series |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Meaning of geography: Geography defined: What is geography?
- Five themes of geography
- Geography and you: Geography of geography
- Galactic address
- Geographical thinking
- First geographers: Thales: First true geographer?
- Representing the earth: Globes, projections, and maps: Globes
- Looking at earth
- Inventing the globe
- Lines of longitude and latitude: Two north poles
- Geographers in ancient Greece
- Geographic grid
- Light on earth: 24-hour globe: Time zones
- Maps: What is a map?
- Map projections
- Some common map projections: How map projections are made: Natural features
- Human-made features: First maps
- Three basic kinds of maps
- Charts
- Maps for special uses: Altered states: Cartograms
- Written references: Geographical dictionaries and almanacs
- Parts of a map
- Understanding and comparing maps - Three steps to comparing maps: Land, water, and air: Physical world: Land: How the earth was formed
- Plate tectonics
- Tectonic events that shape the land
- Volcanoes
- Ring of fire
- Landforms: Erosion and weathering
- Glaciers
- Water: Oceans: Briny deep
- Natural events under water: Tides
- Rivers: World's longest rivers
- Seas, gulfs, and bays
- Lakes
- Air: Atmosphere, weather, and climate: Atmosphere
- Weather and climate: Weather fronts
- Water heaters: Land and ocean temperatures
- Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, and cyclones
- Water in the air: Insulation: Clouds and climate
- Winds at sea
- Plants and animals: Natural regions of the world: Land biomes
- Biomes: Tropical rain forests
- Tropical grasslands
- Mediterranean regions
- Temperate forests
- Cool forests
- Cool grasslands
- Deserts
- Tundra
- Polar regions: Mountain biomes
- People on land and water: Location and place: What are location and place?
- Counting people: Population: Population
- Population data: Population pictures: Profiles and pyramids
- Population density and distribution
- Urban vs. Rural: World birth rates: 1910-2000
- Culture: What is culture: Cultural mosaic
- Culture basics
- Language
- Beliefs and traditions: Religions, customs, and arts and crafts: Greetings! Manners, meanings, and cultural differences
- Culture crafts
- Home, sweet home: Architecture of houses
- Food! Glorious food!
- Political systems: What is government?
- How people live: Hunter-gatherers
- Subsistence farmers: Industry & technology
- Agriculture
- Old MacDonald had a farm
- World agriculture
- Mining: Which mine is mine? Different types of mining
- Forestry
- Fishing and fisheries
- Manufacturing: Brief history of manufacturing
- Measuring economies
- Geography of production
- Migration, from exploration to settlement: Overview of migration: Conquest and empire
- Can't get there from here: Transportation
- Why move?
- Glossary of geographical terms
- Atlas
- World in focus
- U.S. in focus.