Create a Continent: Landscape zones and temperature Part I

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Create a Continent 

Statement of Inquiry: 

Features of natural landscapes are caused by System Earth and influence the location of human landscapes 

Key Concept: Systems 

Related Concepts: Causality 

Global Context: Natural and human landscapes

Create a Continent 

Today:

• Repeat: let's check out some drawings. 
• Introduction on Landscape zones: from hot to cold. 
• Explanation and video: the Deciduous and Coniferous Forests 
• Quick Quiz: Deciduous and Coniferous Forests 
• ACTIVITY: Read and anwer the questions G95 & G96

Landscape Zones: 

From from hot to cold

• The earth has large areas of original vegetation: landscape zones. 

• Check out GB 246.

• Vegetation types differ due to precipitation and temperature.

The Deciduous Forest (loofwoud)

• Located around 40 -  55 degrees NL
• Temperature in summer on average 10 degrees Celcius or higher. 
• Temperature in winter on average no colder than -3 degrees. 
• Deciduous trees lose their leaves. 

The Coniferous Forest

(naaldwoud or taiga)

• Located around 55 - 70 degrees NL
• Temperature in summer on average 10 degrees Celcius or lower.  
• Temperature in winter on average colder than -3 degrees. 
• Sometimes there is a mix of deciduous and coniferous forests: a heterogenous forest.

Name one thing you did not know before, but now do after watching the video.

Temperature in summer on average 10 degrees Celcius or higher.

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

The trees in this forest lose their leaves.

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Located around 55 - 70 degrees NL

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Temperature in winter on average colder than -3 degrees.

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Located around 40 - 55 degrees NL

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Temperature in summer on average 10 degrees Celcius or lower.

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Temperature in winter on average no colder than -3 degrees.

1. Deciduous Forest
2. Coniferous Forest

Go to Google Classroom and read G101 and G102 from the GeoGuide. In your own words, give a definiton to the following key words.
- deciduous forest
- coniferous forest
- heterogeneous forest

Check out Figure 4.8 about the deciduous forest in Germany

Based on this picture, describe in about 50 words how the deciduous forest looks like.