What’s it all - #DLSGEO
Transcript of What’s it all - #DLSGEO
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You are already a GEOGRAPHER! Geographers try to understand how events can affect people and places. Let’s take an
example and see what you already know…
Yesterday it was announced that the Local Education Authority wants to close your
school. Once you have stopped celebrating (!), think about how this might affect you,
and your local community. Consider where you would have to go to school.
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Your teachers and local community:
• How might this change affect your teachers?
• How might this change affect the shops around your school?
• What would happen to the school site?
• How might changes affect the local area in the future?
Overall, would you closing the school be a good thing or a bad thing? Who might
benefit and who might lose?
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The daily NEWS... The news are and important and easy way to get an overview of what is happening in your
country and around the world every day.
During the coming week you are to watch the daily news and fill in the table
below.
List 7 countries mentioned in the news (one for each day).
Label each country on the map below,
Write a brief description why the country was mentioned.
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DATE COUNTRY NEWS ITEM DESCRIPTION
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What’s in a LINE? WORKSHEET
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1. The equator is _______________ latitude.
2. All of ________________ America is above the equator.
3. Is Mexico north or south of the equator? ________________
4. Name one state located west of the 140°W longitude. _________________
5. Is the United States located above or below the equator? _______________
6. Is Peru east or west of the 60°W longitude? __________________
7. Peru is located between the equator and the _________________ latitude line.
8. Guyana, Suriname and French Guinea are all located between the 50°W longitude and the
__________________ longitude.
9. All of Canada is located above which latitude — 60°N or 40°N? ___________________
10.Name the longitude lines which pass through Argentina. ______________________________________
11.Name the two longitude lines which pass through Mexico. ______________________
12.Is most of Colombia north or south of the equator? _____________________
Use the map below to answer the question below about latitudes and longitudes.
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What’s the TIME? WORKSHEET
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1. What time zone are you in? ___________________________________________________________
2. Where is all time measured from? ______________________________________________________
3. Approximately how wide is each time zone? _________________________
4. Explain why time zone boundaries are not completely straight.
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5. If it is January 7, 10:00 P.M. in New York City, what date and time is it in London?
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6. A man living in Honolulu, Hawaii on Tuesday 12:00 P.M. calls his cousin in Tokyo, Japan. What time
is it in Tokyo? What calendar day is it?
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7. If its 2p.m where you live, what time is it in the following places:
Beijing Moscow
Mumbai Los Angeles
Sydney Rome
Singapore Chicago
Tokyo Rio de Janeiro
Cairo London
Use the map below to answer the question below about time zones.
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Looking from ABOVE In this activity we are going to learn how to read aerial photographs and identify features on
them using a map of the same area.
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Q3 Q7 Q5
Q8 Q6
Aerial photo of central London
Map of central London
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1. List the features you can see in the aerial photograph.
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2. List features that you cannot see in the aerial photograph.
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3. This is a large building. What is it called? __________________________________________________
4. Suggest an activity you can do in this building. _____________________________________________
5. What is the name of the road marked on the map? __________________________________________
6. What are the objects marked here? _______________________________________________________
7. What is the long red object? _____________________________________________________________
8. What is the name of the road marked on the map? __________________________________________
Identifying features on aerial photographs. Look at the aerial photo of Hyde Park, London
on the next page and answer the questions :
1. What do you think these long white lines in the park are?
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2. What do you think is in the centre of this square?
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3. What sport can you play here? _________________________________________________________
4. There is a long shadow here. What do you think can create it?
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5. What do you think is in the middle of the lake?
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6. There is a shape with round edges here. What do you think it is?
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Look at the aerial photograph and map of central London on the previous
page and answer the questions :
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GOOGLE some landmarks Log on Google maps to locate the following landmarks and fill in the table below.
Remember to follow instructions in notes booklet on page 11.
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LANDMARK CITY COUNTRY NEARBY LANDMARKS
Eiffel Tower The name of the landscaped park
Buckingham Palace The name of the hill
Great Sphinx of Giza Another very famous landmark
Great Wall of China The name of the valley
Ayers Rock (Uluru) The name of the gorge
Stonehenge The name of the closest hotel
Statue of Liberty The opening hours
Sistine Chapel The name of a very large church
Machu Picchu Name of the river
Taj Mahal The name of the Mosque
Niagara Falls The name of a restaurant
Mount Everest The two countries at the border
Select another five world famous land marks and complete the information for each of them.
You may need
to ZOOM OUT
to find some of
the answers!
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CRUISIN’ the seas Use Google maps to design a poster/brochure of an ocean cruise. You are to include the
following information :
You will be visiting three ports
List what ocean or sea you will be travelling across
State how far and how long will it take you to reach the next port
For each port that you stop at describe what travellers can do and see
once they get off the ship at the port
You can use the following formatting or else create one of your own. You can also include pictures and a
map showing the places you will be visiting.
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