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• What is the difference between

Location & Place?

Describe how your house, Bucks County, Central Bucks School District, United States, and

Western Hemisphere are in the same region. What do they all have in common??? How can all these places be separate regions, but also in the

same regions?

What is the difference between Location & Place?

Location: 5* S , 68 * WLocation: 5* S , 68 * W

What is the difference between Location & Place?

Place: DescribePlace: Describe

Element # 2: Region• What does it have in common?What does it have in common?

• Region refers to an area that has some characteristic in common. Regions can be huge like the Milkway Galaxy, but they can also be very small, such as the 7th grade hallway at Tamanend

Is Tamanend in the Milkyway Galaxy?

Climate Zones = Regions!

• There are 3 major climate regions.• Tropical (Red)Tropical (Red)• Temperate (Mid-Latitude) (Green)Temperate (Mid-Latitude) (Green)• Polar (Blue)Polar (Blue)

Tropical

Tropical: (Red)

• Everything between the Tropic of Everything between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of CapricornCancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

Tropical: (Red)• HottestHottest• Most direct sunlight

• Temperature changes little throughout the season the lowest temperature is lowest temperature is 6565 degrees F (hot year round)

• It is very humid (lots of moisturevery humid (lots of moisture in in the air)the air)

Temperate

Temperate (Mid-Latitude):

• Between the Tropics and the Arctic Between the Tropics and the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic CircleCircle and the Antarctic Circle

Temperate (Mid-latitude):• Moderate temperature with distinct

seasons• Cold in the winterCold in the winter• Warm in the summerWarm in the summer

• WHERE WE LIVE!!WHERE WE LIVE!!

Temperate:

Polar

Polar:• Everything North of the Arctic Circle Everything North of the Arctic Circle

& Everything South of the Antarctic & Everything South of the Antarctic CircleCircle

Polar:• No sunlight during part of the year No sunlight during part of the year • No darkness during part of the yearNo darkness during part of the year• Very cold Very cold • Few people live hereFew people live here

RegionsEven more impressive areas can be in

several regions at one time depending on what the common characteristic is.

• Example: Warrington, PA – is part of Central Bucks School District, different temples, churches, etc., different sports teams, as well as, part of the suburbs of Philadelphia and part of

the USA, etc.