2.5 Population and natural landscapes

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Population and natural landscapes

• how fast the world population is growing (and the differences between continents)
  
  
• how the world population is distributed: densely vs. sparsely populated areas along with their names and locations
  
  
• the factors that cause areas to be sparsely populated

www.worldometers.info

Population distribution-how are they spread out?

Sparsely populated or dense?

Sparsely populated or dense?

Sparsely populated or dense?

Kowloon walled city

To do

Make sure the scheme in the landscapebooklet is filled in.
(use your guide!)

Exercises 1 to 3 in your workbook.

Work on your booklet

There are too many people on the planet.

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What challenges can too many people bring to a crowded planet?

What challenges can too few people bring?

This graph shows population growth. Can you find another graph that is more dramatic? What makes it dramatic?

This image shows population...

1. movement
2. clusters
3. hotspots
4. future predictions

In which climate zone do most people live?

1. subpolar
2. temperate
3. subtropical
4. tropical

What happened to the temperate forests?

This land is...

1. urban
2. pastoral
3. arable
4. fallow

Which forests are currently disappearing?

1. European deciduous
2. Artctic taiga
3. Tropical rainforests
4. Alpine coniferous

At the end of this lesson

-how fast the world population is growing (and the differences between continents)

-how the world population is distributed: densely vs. sparsely populated areas along with their names and locations

-the factors that cause areas to be sparsely populated

Describing and explaining

When describing, you answer questions that start with the words what? or where?

When explaining you say how something came to be. You make connections between different places or different phenomena. Explanatory questions often start with the word why? For example: Why was that city built there? 

Read G80 and answer the following question

What is the story here? Write it down in your notebook

To do

Paragraph 5: exercise 4 and 5 

(1 to 5 should be finished than)

Landscape booklet

What keyword can you connect to this picture

Name two landscapezones that are not in Greenland

Welk klimaat van Köppen?

Why is the polar region sparsely populated?

Why are the desert and steppe sparsely populated?

Why is the tropical rainforest sparsely populated?

To do

Finish (page 40)

Selftest online> ELO>Leermiddelen>Methode>Selftest

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