Humboldt CH1

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Chapter 1

Quiz 

Our planet is the ...........planet from the Sun.

1. first
2. second
3. third
4. fourth

This is a layer of gases surrounding the planet

1. atmosphere
2. sphere
3. thermosphere
4. exosphere

This layer of gas protects us from the ultraviolet rays from the sun

1. atmosphere
2. ozone layer
3. troposphere
4. ozone shield

The Netherlands are a good example of.....

1. densely populated country
2. sparsely populated country

What is migration?

What are the main requirements for a map?

What does this number mean:
1 : 20.000.000

What do the last two numbers mean?
41*7'13" N

Another word for 'evenaar' is?

1. equalizer
2. equality line
3. equator
4. evenare

The horizontal lines are called?

1. Lines of latitude
2. lines of longitude

Did you like this? Please tell me why!

Atlas exercises

Use the Atlas on the left

You're going to do several exercises to enhance your use of the atlas. 

Let's grab an atlas, shall we?

Look up a map for the following countries:

- The Netherlands                          
- Germany
- Iceland
- Denmark
- Morocco

How to do it:
Write down GB (Grote Bosatlas), followed by the page you found the map on. For example GB112
(Or write down GB112A if it's section A

Look up the following maps

- Latitude Morocco
- Energy of the Netherlands
- Precipitation Belgium
- A map of Europe
- A map of the US of A

A closer look at Alice Springs!

Let's repeat our newly learned words:

- Founded

- Approximately

- Predecessors
- Scarcely any water

- Irrigation

[Let's also think of some sentences to use them in!]

Remember Alice Springs? 

- You're about to watch a video.

- In the video you see the circumstances of Alice Springs

Assignment: 
1) Write down what you see.

2) What is Alice Springs' biggest problem if you look at the landscape? 

Solution?

- What could people do to provide themselves with enough water? 

- Discuss this with your neighbour and write down 1 answer. 

Irrigation

= Artificial watering of the soil


Could come from: 
- Groundwater

- A watersupply nearby (or a few miles/kilometers away!)

CLIL: Assignment 1
Write a story about a visit to a relative in the USA. Look up the geogr. coordinates of one city in the USA. Use the atlas and the following words: 
- Population density
- Migration
- Absolute location 
- Geography
- Geographical coordinates

CLIL: Assignment 2
Using the atlas or internet: 
Find the geogr. coordinates of the following cities and write them down the way you learned to do it.
- Heerlen    - Paris
- Red Deer   - Buenos Aires
- New Dehli

[Done? Awesome!]

a. Qaanaaq

b. Sion

c. Pishan

d. Spier

e. Darwin

f. Taraquá

g. Amsterdam

h. Madrid

i. New York

j. Sydney

k. Rio de Janeiro

l. Berlijn

m. Mekka

n. Shanghai

o. Singapore

a. Qaanaaq (77° N., 69° W.)

b. Sion (46° N., 7° E.)

c. Pishan (37° N. 78° E.)

d. Spier (52° N. 6° E.)

        e. Darwin (12° S., 130° E. )                        

         f. Taraquá (0.6° N. 69° W.)                                 

g. Amsterdam (52.° N. 4.° E.)

h. Madrid (40.° N. 3.° W.)

i. New York (40° N. 74° W.)

j. Sydney (33° S. 151° E.)

k. Rio de Janeiro (22° S. 43° W.)

l. Berlijn (52.° N. 13.° E.)

n. Shanghai

o. Singapore