C4.1 Japan - Lesson 2: Country in the Ring of Fire

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C7.1: Japan: country in the Ring of Fire

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CHAPTER 4: JAPAN

CHAPTER 4: JAPAN

What do you want to know about Japan?

Write 5 questions in your notebook that you would like to know about Japan!

Remember: These must be geography questions!

CHAPTER 4: JAPAN

CHAPTER 4: JAPAN

1. Compare your questions with each other 
2. Open Chapter 4 in your textbook 
3. Try to answer all your questions 

After 5 minutes you can grab your Chromebook!

Choose one question together

that you liked the most

and want to discuss in class.

Which question would you
like to discuss in class?

What's the plan for today?

1. Start with the first paragraph:

C4.1: Japan: country in the Ring of Fire

You can explain what the

Ring of Fire is.

THE LATEST EARTHQUAKES

TODAYS GOALS

1. You can give a connection between land use and relief in Japan.
2. You can explain the difference between endogenic and exogenic forces.
3. You can name the 3 types of movements tectonic plates can make.
4. You can name 2 differences between continental and oceanic plates.
   
5. You can explain what the Ring of Fire is.

You can explain these terms in your own words: Earth’s crust, core, mantle, magma, lava, convection current, plates, faults, plate tectonics (GG 66 + 67).

OPEN YOUR COURSEBOOK

PAGE 62/63

The world is a puzzle of moving plates

These plates move in different directions

For example: India

The Indian plate used to be next to Africa.

THE RING OF FIRE

You can explain what the Ring of Fire is.

THE LATEST EARTHQUAKES

You can name the 3 types of movements tectonic plates can make.

1. Transform
2. Divergent
3. Convergent

TERMS OF C4.1

You can explain these terms in your own words: Earth’s crust, core, mantle, magma, lava, convection current, plates, faults, plate tectonics.

• Open your GeoGuide on pages 64-67.
• Use the figues on pages 64-67.
• Use the finish of C4 in your coursebook.

Finished? Start with questions 2 to 6 in your workbook.

The rest of the lesson..

• Read C4.1 in your coursebook (p. 62-63).
• Use your GeoGuide
• Make 3, 4 and 5 in your workbook. (p. 70-71)

Are you finished?

• Ask for an atlas and make the first exercise about the topography of Japan.

HOMEWORK

C7.1: Make 2 to 5.