Les 1 - De Alpen

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Planning

• Planning for coming weeks
  
• Start with new chapter
  
• Assignments
  

This period

Until the Christmas holidays

New chapter: H2 – From the mountains to the sea

Four paragraphs

Practical assignment (PO)

After the holidays the test (about Chapter 2)

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics

Voor de Alpen bergen waren waren ze iets anders. Wat waren ze?
Before the Alps were mountains they were something else. What were they?

1. A glacier
2. A tropical rainforest
3. Hills
4. An ocean

The Alps

• Started as an ocean
• The African continent moved towards Europe
• The land in between got crunched up in between

fold mountain range

fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together

Endogenic forces

Forces from inside the earth that cause the earth to change

(Everything caused by plate tectonics)

Exogenic forces

Forces from outside the earth that cause the earth to change

Think water and wind breaking down rocks

Which is older?

1. Left
2. Right
3. Impossible to say

Weathering

The process of rocks wearing down

Is weathering an endogenic or an exogenic force?

1. Exogenic
2. Endogenic

Homework

• First read the theory (§2.1)
  
• I’ll start grading
  
• Assignment 1, 2 en 5 (homework)