Study!

Our first quiz is coming up tomorrow (Thursday, September 30th)! Make sue to review your notes!

Things to review:

• 5 Themes


• Absolute & Relative Location


• Map (7 continents, 4 oceans, 5 lines of latitude, Prime Meridian)

Here is a website with lots of map quizzes to help check what you know!

Location, Location, Location

We have been working with latitude and longitude for the past few days in class. Remember that lines of latitude run horizontally, parallel to the Equator, and are labeled north and south. Lines of longitude run vertically, parallel to the Prime Meridian and are labeled east and west.

Here are the worksheets for Absolute Location (Latitude and Longitude) and Relative Location.

5 Themes

This week we have been talking about the five themes of geography- location, place, regions, movement and human-environment interaction. For a quick review of the themes, check out this power point.

Welcome!

Welcome to 8th grade geography! I am really looking forward to a wonderful year! I hope this blog becomes a resource that you check in with frequently for class updates and information. Thank you for visiting!

You can access our class syllabus at any time here. You can also check out important dates (due dates, tests, etc.) for the class here.