Create a Continent: Landscape zones and precipitation Part I
Create a Continent
Statement of Inquiry:
Features of natural landscapes are caused by System Earth and influence the location of human landscapes
Key Concept:Systems
Related Concepts:Causality
Global Context: Natural and human landscapes
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Create a Continent
Statement of Inquiry:
Features of natural landscapes are caused by System Earth and influence the location of human landscapes
Key Concept:Systems
Related Concepts:Causality
Global Context: Natural and human landscapes
Slide 1 - Tekstslide
Create a Continent
Today:
Introduction on Landscape zones with the Grote Bosatlas.
What do you already know about the Tropical Rainforest?
Explanation and video: the Tropical Rainforest
Quick Quiz: tropical rainforest
ACTIVITY: Read and anwer the questions G95 & G96
Slide 2 - Tekstslide
Landscape Zones:
From wet to dry
The earth has large areas of original vegetation: landscape zones.
Check out GB 246.
Vegetation types differ due to precipitation and temperature.
Slide 3 - Tekstslide
Tropical Rainforest
Slide 4 - Woordweb
The Tropical Rainforest
The main charachteristics:
Located between 10o NL and 10o SL
Always warm (higher than 18o Celcius)
A lot of precipitation (2000 mm per year)
The forest is heterogeneous
The biodeversity is high
The trees grow in different layers
The trees are always green
Slide 5 - Tekstslide
Slide 6 - Video
Name one thing you did not know before, but now do after watching the video.
Slide 7 - Open vraag
The trees in the tropical rainforest are always green and grow in different layers.
A
True
B
False
Slide 8 - Quizvraag
The tropical rainforest is located between 10 degrees NL and 10 degrees SL
A
True
B
False
Slide 9 - Quizvraag
In the traopical rainforsts it is always warm, higher than 25 degrees Celcius on average.
A
True
B
False
Slide 10 - Quizvraag
In the tropical rainforest there is a lot of precipitation, about 800 mm per year.
A
True
B
False
Slide 11 - Quizvraag
The tropical rainforest is heterogeneous, which means that there are a lot of different plants.
A
True
B
False
Slide 12 - Quizvraag
In the tropical rainforests, the biodiversity is low.
A
True
B
False
Slide 13 - Quizvraag
Go to Google Classroom and read G95 and G96 from the GeoGuide. In your own words, give a definiton to the following key words. - precipitation - heterogeneous forest - biodiversity
Slide 14 - Open vraag
Check out Figure 4.4 about the tropical rainforst in Panama.
Based on this picture, describe in about 50 words how the rainforest looks like. In your answer use the words: layers, species, shade and green