C6: Latin america paragraph 4

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Chapter 6.4 Peruvians and their environment

At the end of this lesson you are able to:

-Distinquish different landscapes and climates of Peru
-Explain how different people live in Peru, dealing with their own environmental circumstances.

Physical

Landscapes

Climate

Humboldt current

Current = Stroming

Brings cold water from antartica to westcoast of latin america. Low salinity (zout) 

Creates very dry climate. Driest place on earth (atacama desert)

Demographical

Demography

Population 32,275,736 (2022 est.)

Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and White) 60.2%, Amerindian 25.8%, White 5.9%, African descent 3.6%, other (includes Chinese and Japanese descent) 1.2%, unspecified 3.3% (2017 est.)

Country of emigration nowadays (US,Spain)

Social-cultural

Social cultural

Language: Spanish (official) 82.9%, Quechua (official) 13.6%, Aymara (official) 1.6%, Ashaninka 0.3%, other native languages (includes a large number of minor Amazonian languages) 0.8%, other (includes foreign languages and sign language) 0.2%, none 0.1%, unspecified 0.7% (2017 est.)

Religion: Roman Catholic 60%, Christian 14.6% (includes Evangelical 11.1%, other 3.5%), other 0.3%, none 4%, unspecified 21.1% (2017 est.)

Political

Political situation

First Vice President Dina Ercilia BOLUARTE Zegarra assumed the office of the president on 7 December 2022 after President Jose Pedro CASTILLO Terrones was impeached and arrested.

BOLUARTE is the first woman to become president of Peru

But: there are still protests by supporters of president Castillo.

To do

Paragraph 6.4 exercises 1 to 9

Working on assignment

At the end of this lesson

You are able to draw different climate charts by memory.

You are able to check your work.

Write down in your notebook

1. the three different landscapes of Peru

2. The problems the following groups of people are facing: Urban Dwellers, Highlanders, Indigenous people around Iquitos. 

3. Draw a climate graph of the coastal area

Landscapes

Climate

Different groups

Urban dwellers- air pollution, housing problems, criminality.
Indigenous peoples in the highlands- Aymara or Quecha. Cronic altitude sickness, cold winds, harsh conditions for crop farming.

Indigenous peoples around Iquito- Bora people. Destroying their environment by logging. Destroying the culture by modern-day civilisation brought by tourists.

                     The Köppen climate

• A= Tropical climate
• B = Dry climate
• C = Maritime (sea) climate
• D = Continental (land) climate
• E = Cold climate

Extra letters:

F (fehlt)= dry period is missing
S (sommer= dry period in summer
W (winter) = dry period in winter

A

B

C

E

D

A: Tropical	more than 18 ºC all year round.	Af, Aw, As, Am (monsoon)	Tropical rainforest Savanne
B: Dry climate	Less than 500 mm per year.	BW even less than 250 mm	Desert Steppe
C: Seaclimate	Warmer than 10ºC in warmest month. Coldest month between -3ºC and 18 ºC	All year round precipitation: Cf With dry periods Cs, Cw	Seaclimate Mediterranean China climate
D: Landclimate	Warmest month Warmer than 10ºC Coldest month Colder than -3ºC	All year round precipitiation: Df Dry winter Dw	Landclimate
E: Cold climate	All year round colder than 10ºC	Alwas colder than 0ºC: EF, EH In summer 0-10ºC: ET	Snowclimate Mountain climate Tundraclimate

To do

Practise climate charts- draw the climates Af, Cw,Bw and Bs. 
Try to draw the climates by memory, find a city in the atlas.

 

Work on 1 to 9 and check answers

 
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