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NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS. PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS. SOILS CLIMATE TOPOGRAPHY NATURAL VEGETATION. To correctly identify natural environments you need their geographical characteristics such as:. Take the kids outside!

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NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

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  1. NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

  2. PART ONE:GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS

  3. SOILS CLIMATE TOPOGRAPHY NATURAL VEGETATION To correctly identify natural environments you need their geographical characteristics such as:

  4. Take the kids outside! I go out to the trees just outside my room. I get the kids to “touch and feel” and tell me how the soil feels in their hands, tell me what the weather is general like here this time of the year, tell me what the shape of the ground is like and what trees we are looking at. GO OUTSIDE!!

  5. SOILS • TYPE • ORIGIN (HOW WERE THEY MADE) • TEXTURE • PH- ACIDIC, ALKALINE OR NEUTRAL • WATER CONTENT • MINERAL CONTENT • Literally the foundations of the environment because it dictates what will grow= FERTILITY

  6. Average temperature Average rainfall Patterns over time and seasons. A summary or judgement about whether a place is dry, cold, wet or hot in general or at certain times of the year. CLIMATE

  7. The shape of the land. The up and down bits! Is it flat or hilly or steep “YMCA”- arm movements to match the words steep, flat, undulating-DO IT DURING THE EXAM TO REMEMBER!! TOPOGRAPHY

  8. BASE for the biosphere and what animal life can be supported by it. What is used for food and what for habitat. THEN you CAN DISCUSS INTRODUCED SPECIES later. NATURAL VEGETATION

  9. Its not enough to just know the ingredients! • You also need to know the Processes which are: • Erosion • Transportation • Deposition

  10. Processes put simply

  11. CHANGE Change can be measured in the following ways: • Over time- short term eg: seasonal or disaster -long term eg: geological Mount St Helens 1923 and 1980 • Over space: local, regional, international, global • Scale: size. Eg: how big? Best shown as: • Before and after shots.

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