GEOG
201 - Basic Elements of Geography
PowerPoint Lecture Presentations
Contained here are all of the PowerPoint lectures that I use in this course. Every day that the class meets will include lectures and every single lecture is PowerPoint driven. At present, there are 15 lecture units totaling well over 500 slides! Unlike most of the PowerPoint lectures you've probably been exposed to, very few of my slides contain extensive text; none contain an obvious outline or bulleted list. I take the notion of geography as a visual science to the extreme by providing images, illustration, diagrams, and maps of almost everything I'll talk about in class. However, the slides are designed to accompany lectures, not replace them. Without the lecture materials which the slides complement, the slides will have limited value to you come exam time. To repeat: these PowerPoint presentations alone are NOT a substitute for comprehensive lecture notes!!
The secret to printing the PowerPoint slides for convenient note taking: when PowerPoint opens, you have an editable version of the lecture which can be printed. Click on "File", then "Print". On the Print panel, choose "handout" from the "Print what:" pull down. In "Slides per page:" click on 3. That will print three slides on the left side per page with lines for notes on the right. Obviously, you need to have PowerPoint.
Geography
Defined
I have put
together a PowerPoint Presentation that does a pretty good job of explaining
what geography is all about. Give this a try before you read the
introductory chapters of the textbook.
Internal/External Processes
Earth, Rocks, and Diastrophism
Plate Tectonics
Erosion
Weather & Climate
Atmosphere
Weather
Hydrosphere
Biomes
Population &
Culture
Population & Migration
16 voiceover
(Begin on Slide #28)
Religion
Economic & Spatial Geography
Political Geography
Middle East (with Rise
of ISIL voice-over)
Agriculture w/
voiceovers
Study guides
Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3
Final Exam
World Maps
in color
(at bottom of
map index list)
Plate
Tectonics Features for Google Earth
Save this file to your desktop, open Google
Earth, go to File and open the Plate_Tectonic_Features
kmz file. To
save the layer in My Places, move the plate boundary layer up out of Temporary
Places, go to File, Save, Save my places.
It’s now saved and open the next time you open Google Earth. Cool, huh? You will need to include this
overlay zoomed to your country for the first Country Profile Status Update.
Updated
August 22, 2016