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Subject: Geography Year: 7 Dear Students, We Hope You Are All Well Subject: Geography Year: 7 Dear Students, We hope you are all well. Please be reminded that it is an expectation that you are completing the work that we have set. Work from June 1st should now be uploaded Class Charts. This can be word processed work or a photograph of your work completed in your books or on paper. Each week in Geography you will be expected to complete a piece of Geography work that should take you between 1 to 2 hours. This is the minimum expectation and there are lots of other useful things you could spend your time completing in your free time as listed below: Watching Documentaries: Explore the following websites: Read the following books: Chasing Ice BBC Bitesize Our Place by Mark Cocker Blue Planet Geoguessr Adventures of a young naturalist by Planet Earth Google Maps David Attenbrough Life Gapminder Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall Severn Worlds One Planet Kids World Travel Guide Population and Development – Tim Horizons: We need to talk World Atlas Dyson about population Earthtime.org Factfulness by Hans Rosling National Geographic National Geographic Adventures through the Anthrpocene by Twitter: @BCGeogDept Gaia Vince Week Title of work Learning Intentions: Deadline for work 1 How is Asia developing into • To know how Asia’s economy compares Friday 5th June 2020 the most important global to other continents. economic region? • To understand the growing importance of Asia. • To analyse the shift in world trade. 2 Where is the Middle East? • To be able to locate where the Middle Friday 12th June 2020 East is in the world and identify the countries which are a part. • To be able to describe the human and physical features of the Middle East. • To be able to research key information about the Middle East. 3 How does the Physical • To be able to locate the physical features Friday 19th June 2020 Geography influence the of the Middle East on a map. Middle East? • To be able to create a travel blog of a 4 week journey though the various physical features of the Middle East. 4 Biomes in the Middle East • To be able to describe the pattern of Friday 26th June 2020 biomes globally in relation to the Curved Earth theory. • To be able to analyse the characteristics of three main biomes in the Middle East. 5 How are plants and animals • To be able to identify desert plant and Friday 5th June 2020 adapted to live in the animal in the desert. desert? • To be able to annotate the key adaptation of desert plant and animals. • To be able to explain how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. 6 Why is the Middle East so • To be able to identify and understand the Friday 3rd July 2020 culturally diverse? factors that cause population density. • To be able to apply this knowledge to the Middle East in explaining why some places are sparsely and densely populated. • To be able to explore the ethnic and religious diversity within the Middle East. If you have any questions about your work please email your class teacher and they will get back to you as soon as they can. Mr Mullins ([email protected]) Mrs Dawson ([email protected]) Mrs Tahir ([email protected]) Mr Tsintas ([email protected]) Mr Reed ([email protected]) Please follow us on twitter: @BCGeogDept Topic Overview: Use the following links to find out more useful information about each of the lessons. Week Title of work Links to further reading or useful videos 1 How is Asia https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zvp39j6/revision/5 developing into the most important global economic region? 2 Where is the Middle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawZqrBxCRw East? 3 Physical landscapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g2TU0HgqTM of the Middle East 4 Biomes in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fb8143ndo8 Middle East 5 Plant and animal https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/znxsgk7/revision/2 adaptations in the Middle East 6 Cultural diversity in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI1P-FjpA54 the Middle East Week 1: Title: How is Asia developing into the most important global economic region? No other continent has seen greater levels of economic growth in the last 20 years than Asia. China and India now rank in the top 20 countries for global wealth. This growth has been called the ‘Asian Miracle’. How is the balance of world trade moving? The balance of world trade describes the movement of imports and exports across the world. This balance is now moving eastwards. For example in 1995, the USA had almost 25% of global trade in hi-tech goods, while China had only 3%. By 2005, the US share had fallen to 15%, while China’s share had risen to 15%. The emergence of China as a major global trading hub has begun to change not only the size of its trade, but also the number of its significant trading partners. If China’s growth continues, the size of its economy will overtake that of the USA by the late 2020s. By 2050, the Chinese economy could be almost 50% bigger than the USA’s while the Indian economy may follow suit and surpass the USA a few years after 2050. Activities: 1) Read Article A. Why is economic growth now spreading beyond China into other Asian countries? 2) Compare the graphs showing the world distribution of manufacturing output in 1990 and 2013. Describe how world output has changed. 3) How has the percentage share of manufacturing output changed between Asia and the developed continents of North America and Europe? 4) Look carefully at map C. What does this map show? 5) How has the world trade and transportation of goods changed? 6) Which part of the world has the largest ports? 7) Which two parts of the world seem to be the most important trading areas? Week 2: Where is the Middle East? The Middle East is the region bordered in red on the Map. It is where Asia, Africa, and Europe meet. Middle East is the name for this region, since most of it is in South west Asia. But the name came into use over 100 years ago, and it stuck. Figure 1 Activities: Q1: What continents does the Middle East fall into? Q2: Draw an outline of the countries within the Middle East (Figure 2) and find the capital city of these countries. Q3: Using the images from Figure 3, describe the physical features of the Middle East. How does the landscape vary? Q4: Using the images from figure 4, describe the human features of the Middle East? How does the man-made landscape differ across different countries? Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Q5 : Use your netbooks to complete the fact finding mission about the Middle East. Week 3: How does the physical geography influence the Middle East? Activities : Q1: Using Figure 5, describe the physical features shown. Q2: What is the difference between human and physical features? Q3: You have drawn a copy of Figure 2 from Week 1. Use that map to annotate the physical features of the Middle East. Use the internet/Atlas/Figure 6 to help you annotate your map. Below is the criteria you need to include on your map. Figure 6 Q4: You are to complete a writing task as a geographical explorer through the Middle East. You are to complete a 6 week route across the Middle East which begins in Cyprus and ends in Oman. Describe your trek through the different physical features of the Middle East. The route you take is of your choice. You have own no form of transport so how will you get to your destination? Be imaginative, creative and wise! Think about how you will get food, shelter and water. Week 4: Biomes in the Middle East What is a biome? A biome is an area that shares the same animals and plants, the tropical rainforest or a desert. Below are all the major biomes of the world. Figure 7 Activities: Q1: Using figure 7, explain why biomes north and south of the globe are colder than biomes close to the equator. Q2: Use figure 8 and the questions to describe the distribution of biomes in the Middle East. Q3: Read the information about the three main types of biomes in the Middle East. Find out the following about each biome: the climate, the type of vegetation and the type of animals. Figure 8 Desert and desert scrub Grassland This biome has an arid (dry) climate where rainfall The climate here consists of hot summers and cold is minimum to zero is some months. winters. They typically have 10-35 inches of Temperatures are hot during the day up to 50˚C precipitation a year. These areas have grass, and some and can drop below 0˚C at night. Vegetation is low bushes, but few trees. (They are sometimes called sparse. Some areas have almost none. Plants that steppe). People herd sheep and goats. Wild animals do grow have tough spiky leaves to conserve include wolves, sand foxes, wild cats, gazelles, and wild moisture. You might see Arabian Oryx, sand cats, boar. snakes, scorpions, eagles, and more. Forests and shrubland The climate here is dry summers and rainy winters. Summers are typically hot in the low-lying inland areas whilst being cool near colder seas. Forests are evergreen cypresses in Turkey, beside the Mediterranean.
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