6. How does the hydrosphere provide natural resources?

• Geography
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Introduction

This lesson is part of a series of lessons for year 7 geography, focussing on the inquiry of ‘how do we use our planet as a natural resource?’. Each lesson contains a variety of interactive learning experiences, including various engaging tasks, videos, discussion points and key geographical skill developments, such as drawing tables and field sketches. The lessons are designed to be taught in sequence, but can be saved to your LessonUp account to be edited at your leisure, and saved for future usage.

Instructions

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LO: To understand what resources come from the biosphere.

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Rank the things we get from the rainforest biome in order of importance using your opinion.

The factory represents the concept that rainforests act as a natural anti-pollution processing plant!

What is the 'hydrosphere'?

What does 'Geography' mean to you?

So, how important is water and where did it come from?

The Earth's water supply, as a diagram.

image from https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-middle-school-earth-science-flexbook-2.0/section/8.1/primary/lesson/distribution-of-water-on-earth-ms-es/ 

Use the image on this page to inspire your own creation of a diagram/ sketch to explain where the Earth's water supply is held!

Try and use your imagination, but if you get stuck - this image works really well, so just use that!

Upload a picture of your diagram or sketch! 

Let's see what we've all created!

Having learned about water scarcity, use an atlas to find out where in the world has water scarcity and see if you can come up with a reason why.

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