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Key Stage 2 Why Are Jungles So Wet and Deserts So Dry? Key Stage 2 Why Are Jungles So Wet and Deserts So Dry? Location Knowledge: South America, United Kingdom, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, latitude, longitude, Northern hemisphere, Southern hemisphere. Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn Place Knowledge: United Kingdom, Amazon Basin, Amazon Rainforest, Arica, Atacama Desert Florida, North America Great Barrier Reef, Australia Human and Physical Geography: Climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts The Water Cycle, Rivers Skills and Fieldwork: Maps, atlases, globes, digital / computer mapping, 8 compass points, mapping symbols and key How does this unit build on the knowledge and See the ‘Geography Curriculum: Unit Links’ skills developed in KS1 and link with the document on the school website. knowledge and skills in other KS2 units? Links to other areas of the curriculum: History: The Maya Civilisation Science: Living Things and Their Habitats Maths: compass points, direction, analysing data Curriculum Intent: Key Lines of Enquiry 1: Why is climate different 2: What are the world’s climates? across the United Kingdom? Pupils will learn about: Pupils will learn about: The location of the UK on a world The location of the main countries in North and South map America, Africa, Asia and Oceania The name of the continents and The position and significance of the equator, the North and the main countries in Europe South hemispheres the distribution of different types of Observe and describe the pattern climate around the world of climate in the United Kingdom Pupils will learn about: the reasons for similarities and differences and draw conclusions about the climate in different regions Key Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary: Temperature: a degree of hotness or Climate: the average pattern of the weather that a place receives coldness the can be measured using a over 30 years thermometer. Tropical climate: regions of the Earth with a damp climate in which Rainfall: rain all twelve months have average temperatures above 18° Cloud cover: when the sky is covered C. Tropical Climates have almost continuous rainfall throughout the with clouds year, usually in the afternoon. Climate: the average pattern of the Dry climate: regions where the weather is mostly hot and dry (or weather that a place receives over 30 sometimes mostly cold and dry) years Temperate climate (Moderate climate): regions of the Earth with a Temperate climate (Moderate climate): temperate climate have temperatures which are not extreme, not regions of the Earth with a temperate burning hot nor freezing cold. climate have temperatures which are not Polar climate: parts of the Earth with extremely cold weather extreme, not burning hot nor freezing conditions such as the North and South poles. cold. Tundra climate: very cold all year and covers the tops of North Pole: the northern-most point of mountains, the northern extremes of North America and Asia, and the Earth. the southern coast of Greenland. South Pole: the southern-most point of Mediterranean Climate: regions of the Earth with mild winters and the Earth hot, dry summers, and includes the land surrounding the Equator: an imaginary circle around Mediterranean Sea, Southern South America and Southern Earth. It divides Earth into two equal California. parts: the Northern Hemisphere and the Tropic of Cancer: an imaginary line (line of latitude) around the Southern Hemisphere. It runs east and Earth, north of the Equator. It helps people to describe locations on west halfway between the North and Earth. It marks the most northerly latitude at which the sun can South poles. appear directly overhead. This happens at the Summer solstice Distribution: how something is spread (June 21st) when the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun to over an area its maximum extent. Prevailing wind: the direction from which Tropic of Capricorn: an imaginary line (line of latitude) around the the wind most often blows. Earth, south of the Equator. It helps people to describe locations on Atlantic Ocean: the 2nd Earth. It marks the most southerly latitude at which the sun can largest ocean; separates North and appear directly overhead. This happens at the Winter solstice South America on the west from Europe (December 21st) when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the and Africa on the east. sun to its maximum extent. Annual rainfall: the amount of rainfall in a year Curriculum Intent: Key Lines of Enquiry 3: How do climate graphs help 4: How does the climate affect the plants geographers compare the climate of one and animals living in a place? place with another? Pupils will: Pupils will learn about: Compare and contrast the temperature and How climate affects both the landscape of rainfall data in different climate graphs different biomes Reach conclusions about the climate in How climate affects the plants and animals that different locations in the world can live there Construct a climate graph from temperature The way in which plants and animals have and rainfall data for their home location adapted to their climate of different biomes, compare and contrast this with climate graphs explaining the reasons why and drawing of other locations conclusions reach conclusions and make judgements about How climate change affects the plants and the climate in different places animals in different parts of the world, for Express their own opinions about which climate example, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. they prefer to live in, having investigated the impact of the climate in Cononley compared with the climate in Florida. Key Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary Climate graph: a graph which shows both Environment: the surrounding conditions (such as precipitation (rainfall, snow, hail etc) and temperature buildings, land use, soil, climate, and living things). Southern hemisphere: the regions of the Earth Habitat: the home of an animal or plant. which are south of the equator Climate: the average pattern of the weather that a Northern hemisphere: the regions of the Earth which place receives over 30 years are north of the equator Temperature: a degree of hotness or coldness the can be measured using a thermometer Biome: a large region of Earth that has a certain climate and certain types of living things. Major biomes include tundra, forests, grasslands, and deserts. The plants and animals of each biome have traits that help them to survive in their particular biome. Continent: a large solid area of land. Earth has seven continents. In order from largest to smallest, they are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Oceania. Curriculum Intent: Key Lines of Enquiry 5: Why is the jungle of the Amazon 6: Why is Arica the driest inhabited place Rainforest so wet and humid? on Earth? Pupils will learn about: Pupils will learn about: The Amazon River (introduce / revisit river The natural environment of the Atacama Desert vocabulary) Why the city of Arica is the driest inhabited place Why areas of tropical rainforest such as the in the world Amazon Basin have so much convectional The water cycle including transpiration, in rainfall connection with the dry climate of the Atacama How to complete a convectional rainfall diagram. desert, explaining the process using The water cycle including transpiration, in geographical terms. connection with the humidity of the Amazon Rainforest, explaining the process using geographical terms. Key Vocabulary Key Vocabulary Continent: a large solid area of land. Earth has Continent: a large solid area of land. Earth has seven continents. In order from largest to smallest, seven continents. In order from largest to smallest, they are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, they are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Oceania. Antarctica, Europe, and Oceania. Tropical forest biome: The tropical rainforest is full Political map: are designed to show governmental of plants and animals. The weather is very warm and boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the rainy due to its location near the equator. The tropical location of major cities, and they usually include rainforest is the wettest land biome in the world. A significant bodies of water land biome is a large area of land with similar climate, Biome: a large region of Earth that has a certain plants, and animals. climate and certain types of living things. River Amazon: The Amazon River (also named Rio Major biomes include tundra, forests, grasslands, and Amazonas in Portuguese and Spanish) is the deserts. The plants and animals of each biome have largest river in the world by the amount or volume of traits that help them to survive in their water it carries. It flows through the tropical forests of particular biome. South America, mainly in Brazil. Desert: any large region that gets very little rain each Amazon basin: the part of South America through year. Very few plants or animals live in desert areas. which the River Amazon flows. Atmosphere: the layer of gas that surrounds Earth. It Tributaries: smaller rivers that flow into and join a is often called air. larger river. Condense : when a gas changes to a liquid when it is Confluence: the place where the tributary and the cooled, for example, when water vapour changes into main river meet water. Source: the original point from which the river flows. Vaporise: when a liquid changes into a gas when it is It may be a lake, a marsh, a spring or a glacier. heated, for example, when water changes into water Course: the path of the river from source to mouth. vapour. Diversity: differences Water cycle: The water cycle starts in the ocean, Ecosystem: An ecosystem is made up of all of the where the heat of the Sun turns sea water into vapour, living and nonliving things in an area. This includes all tiny droplets of water which float in the air: this process of the plants, animals, and other living things that make is called evaporation.
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