Year 8 Hydrological Cycle

You coped really well today with the difficult words and ideas we introduced. Remember I have given you a choice for your homework. You should complete it on paper and you can use a computer (no cutting and pasting from websites though - your own work please).

You can either draw a cartoon to illustrate the journey that Walter Droplet takes as he travels through the water cycle, or write an extended piece of writing describing the water cycle (including a diagram). Remember the success criteria we discussed in lessons!

Below are some links you should use to help you.

Go interactive! Try this page to see if you understood the lesson.

This page has a good diagram of the water cycle.

Want some more activities? Look here

Why not play Droplet and the Water Cycle to give you some ideas?

This page has an excellent glossary of words we will use in the Rivers Unit.

Year 9 Comparing Countries

Your task is to produce a poster showing the differences between Mexico and the USA. You can do this in pairs, it needs to be handed in next lesson. The success criteria for the poster? Good detail, use of geographical language, a range of differences identified, think food, clothes, landscape, climate, people, wealth try to include human and physical geography, try to include facts, make it interesting, colourful presentation techniques. The poster should be no bigger than A3 size. IDEAS - Start with your Horizons textbook pages 50-63.

Try the Horizons website for other ideas.

The CIA factbook is also useful

Sustainable Forestry - Year 11

In order to complete your essay on the methods of sustainable forestry you should look at one or more of the links below.

Earthquake hits Indonesia - Year 9

A powerful earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 70 people and flattening hundreds of buildings. You might find this cas study useful for the last question in the test - check out the BBC website for details

Year 11 individual research work.

A reminder of the areas you should be concentrating on:

Location of the Equatorial climate and drawing of climate graphs.

Describing the main features of the climate (highest temperature, small annual temperature range, high humdity, lack of seasonal change).

Explain the factors that influece this type of climate (latitude, angle of the sun, convectional climate).

Descrbe the charateristics of the TRF (i.e. the layers, tall trees, little undergrowth)

How the vegetation is related to and adapted to the climate (drip leaves, lianas, emergent layer.

In order to complete this you should use the handouts and the following links.

Link 1

Link 2