Natural landscapes on earth - the North Pole

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Remember me? Mr. Kuiper

Please make a name tag!

And put this on your desk

So I can start learning your names :)

What do you know about..

..the North Pole?

At the end of this lesson, you will know..

the elements which make up the different landscapes in the far North

what kind of people live there

The Inuit (the people)

Singular: Inuk
Plural: Inuit

Preferred over Eskimo (meaning "raw meat eater")

The Inuit speak a language called Inuktitut
They live in areas of low population density

Iglo - house in Inuktitut

Who's ever built one?

Anyone got a husky at home?

Mango & Beer

Traditionally..

the Inuit make a living out of hunting (seals and fish)

but it is impossible these days to survive just on hunting

so mostly the man goes out hunting and the woman works in a school, hospital, community center, etc.

More about that in a video later

The Sami people - Lapland

Reindeer herders

Arctic circle: 66.5 degrees Northern latitude

Page 33

Figure 8

Coniferous forest - hardened against cold winters

Tundra - no trees

Landscapes South to North
(take notes!)

1) The temperate zone (where we are now)
2) Coniferous forest (taiga)
3) Tundra
4) Land ice (fixed)
5) Sea ice (on the move in summer)

Let's do some reading!

Textbook page 32 - top left

Within the tundra landscape:
(take notes)

the temperature's never higher than 10 degrees C
there are no trees, just small plants
winter lasts for 9 months a year
you have permafrost - ever lasting frost

Within the polar landscape:
(take notes)

the temperature never rises above 0 degrees C

there are no plants at all - just snow

land and sea ice can form

Last week's homework

Questions 1,2,5,6

Let's do a check!
Please put your workbooks on the right page

Let's do some work!

Chapter 2, paragraph 2

Exercise 1,2,3,7,8

Next week's homework

Exercise 1,2,3,7,8 (if not finished already!)

You will now know..

the elements which make up a
tundra or polar landscape

what kind of people live there

See you next week!