Droughts, Wars and Globalization: Finishing up our Soapstones


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Using your 5 Themes of Geography chart, give an example for each category using Basalt.  Be quick, just write the first response you can think of:

1)  Absolute Location
2)  Relative Location
3)  Physical Place
4)  Human Place
5)  Effect of Humans on the environment of Basalt
6)  Effect of the environment of Basalt on human
7)  Movement (People, Ideas, Technology) in Basalt
8)  Cultural regions of Basalt
9)  Economic Region of Basalt
10)  Political Region of Basalt

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 Get out your Soapstone and Articles.  Share your findings with your table and get ready to share with a peer who has the other article.

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 What were you most surprised to learn about in the articles?  I was surprised that ____________________________.

What did your article have to do with the 5 themes of geography?  My article was connected to the 5 themes because ______________.

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