social studies 2. ateneo de davao high school

2. Geography
 Comes from a Greek words
GEO – Earth
GRAPHIEN –To write or
describe

3. Countries
Regions
Continents
Land Forms Water Forms
Way of Life of the the People in the area

4. Change of Paradigm
Paradigm One that serves as a pattern or model.
Paradigm
Shift

5. Change of Paradigm

6. Geocentric

7. The world before…

8. The Pamirs

9. Pacific Ring of Fire

10. Asia’s Deserts
Empty Quarter
Rub-al-Khali Saudi Arabia

11. Garaqum-Black Sand
Turkmenistan

12. Qyzlkum or Red Desert
Uzbekistan

13. Gobi Desert Mongolia
Coldest

14. Plateaus
…also called a high plain or
tableland, is an area of highland,
usually consisting of relatively
flat terrain.
Deccan Plateau - India

15. Anatolia - Turkey
Iranian Plateau
Arabian Plateau

16. Rivers and Lakes
Yellow River /
Huang Ho
Yangtze River
Yuan River
CHINA

17. YELLOW RIVER

18. IRAQ
EUPRATES TIGRIS
RIVER RIVER

19. INDUS RIVER
BHAMAPUTRA
GANGES RIVER

20. Mekong River
(South East Asia)

21. LAKES
Dead Sea - Israel/Palestine
Deepest lake in the world

22. Caspian Sea
Largest in the World

23. Lake Baikal Russia
Oldest and Deepest in the World

24. Artic Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
Indian Ocean

25. Boundaries/Regions

26. What determines…
Boundaries/Regions?
1. Culture
2. Location

27. Egypt
Geographically: Africa
Culturally: Asian

28. Natural Resources and
Basic Information about
CHINA

29. CHINA
Mongolia
MAINLAND CHINA
Tibet TAIWAN
MACAU HONGKONG

30. CHINA: The Middle
Kingdom Zhongguo

31. Forbidden Kingdom -Beijing

35. Most populous country
One child policy

36. Distribution of Chinese
population
Pattern?

38. Loess : Sediments

39. Huang Ho River China’s Sorrow

40. Agriculture in China
1. Rice
2. Vegetables
3. Cotton
4. Tea
5. Wheat
6. Corn
7. Goat
8. Pig
9. Sheeps

41. What will be the future for this?
Uncertain
Precarious Danger

42. 10% Forest
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

43. Minerals in China
Iron Ore Steel

44. Electricity
Fushun Province Coal Heat

45. Sufficient in oil - Szechwan

46. Peony: Symbol of wealth
and nobleness

47. Hydropower resources:
680 million kilowatts

48. Taiwan : Formosa

49. Taiwan
Chinese Taipei

50. Hong Kong

51. Hong Kong
British Colony since 1843.
Lease to Great Britain in 1898 for a period of 99 years
Returned to China in 1997

52. Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region

53. Hong Kong
(Fragrant Harbor)
Hilly
Mountanous
Steep slopes

54. Scarcity of Land:
Reclamation

56. Poor in Natural Resources
(except minerals) but they
develop their INDUSTRIES:
textiles, plastics and
technology
Import
Raw Materials
From other
countries
Tourism

57. Macau - China

58. Macau, China
Macau was the first European base in the Far East.
Macau Special Administrative Region of China – Dec.
20, 1999
-One country, two systems (China’s socialist economic
system will not be practiced in Macau. 1987)
-Macau will have a high degree of autonomy in all
matters except foreign And defense affairs
for the next 50 years.

59. Macau

60. Macau : Flat terrain,
reclamation, no arable land.

61. Fishing Industry

62. Macau’s economy has
remained one of the most
open in the world. Tourism
and liberalization of
gaming industry.

65. Mongolia : Landlocked
country

68. Japan
Japan is the Land of the Rising Sun
The Japanese call their country: NIPPON
“SUN ORIGIN

69. 4 MAIN ISLANDS - JAPAN
SOUTH: Humid Sub-Tropical
North: Humid Continental

70. Agriculture
Not suitable for Agriculture: too mountianous
or not suitable for farming 80%
Rice, Potatoes, Tea

71. Agriculture

72. Fisheries

73. Economic Miracle in 1945
Japan became one of the
World’s leading industrial superpower

74. Assignment:
Kyoto Protocol
Background
Objectives
What countries considered to be the
Top-10 emitters.