Parent / Guardian Comment: House Points: IOTI: WWW: Name: _______________________________ Form: ______ Subject Teacher: ___________________________________ Date given: ______________ Date to hand in:___________ Effort: Haslingden High School Geography Department HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 8 Block A
13
Embed
Haslingden High School Geography Department HOMEWORK ......If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club. Mountain Climate Mountains can be dangerous places
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Date given: ______________ Date to hand in:___________
Effort:
Haslingden High School Geography Department
HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 8 Block A
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Instructions
This homework booklet is all about mountains which is a brand new
topic.
You have learnt some skills in your Geography lessons that will help you
with this booklet.
Read each page carefully and do your best.
If you have any problems, you should ask your Geography teacher or go to
homework club.
Look out for the clock on each task that tells you the maximum
time you should spend on each task. 20
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Mountains of the World
Lots of people can’t agree on what a mountain actually is!
You should label these mountain areas (shaded in grey) onto the map:
Mountain Range Continent Rockies North America Andes South America Alps Europe Himalayas Asia Atlas Africa Great Dividing Range Oceania Transantarctic Mountains Antarctica
You should now label these tall mountains (triangles) onto the map:
Mountain Height (m) Continent Mt. McKinley 6,194 North America Aconcagua 6,960 South America Mt. Blanc 4,807 Europe Mt. Everest 8,848 Asia Vinson Massif 4,897 Antarctica Puncak Jaya 5,040 Oceania Mt. Kilimanjaro 5,895 Africa
Most people agree that a
mountain has to be at least
1000m tall!
15
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Help: there is only one mountain range and one highest mountain for each continent!
NORTH
AMERICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
AFRICA
EUROPE
ASIA
OCEANIA
ANTARCTICA
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Mountain Climate
Mountains can be dangerous places to be if bad weather arrives. For every 100m you climb uphill, it gets 1˚C colder. So for every 1000m you go uphill it gets 10˚C colder. You must complete the temperature for each height on the diagram.
Why do you think you only get snow above 3000m?
You need to wrap
up warm to climb
a mountain!!
10
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Mountain Climate
As well as getting colder, mountains are also pretty wet. Here’s why…
10
0
If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.
Weather in Innsbruck
Innsbruck is a city in Austria that is on the mountains.
You must use the climate graph on the next page to answer questions
about the weather in Innsbruck.
On a climate graph the bars show you total rain and snow and the line
shows you how hot it is. Make sure you use the correct scale!
1) Which is the hottest month? _________________________
2) Which is the coldest month? _________________________
3) Which is the wettest month? _________________________
4) Which is the driest month? _________________________
5) Instead of rain what might it be in Dec, Jan and Feb? ____________________
6) If you lived here, how might it affect you? ________________________________
E2 List some effects of new ski resorts but not directed toward one viewpoint
E3 Gives some reasons for or against new ski resorts, one sided.
1 Includes own opinion and gives reasons for this using information straight from the booklet, one sided.
2 Gives balanced views for and against new ski resorts to explain their own opinion and includes information from the booklet about why mountains should be protected.