C2.1 - Lesson 2: Life in the Amazon

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LANDSCAPE ZONES

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What is the plan for today?

Repeat: THE GEOGUIDE

The first landscape zone: Life in the Amazon

Rules during class

1. A maximum of one person is speaking.
2. Raise your finger if you want to say something.
3. Always bring your books!

GEOGUIDE

When do I need it?

How do I use it?

CHECK START

TODAY'S GOALS

1. You can explain the difference between a natural landscape and a man-made landscape.
2. You can explain the difference between a physical and a social factor. 
   
3. You can describe temperature, precipitation and vegetation in the tropical rainforest. 

LANDSCAPE ZONES

NATURAL LANDSCAPE

Landscape untouched by humans, still in its natural state.

MAN-MADE LANDSCAPE

Landscape where people have built houses, roads, fields etc.

Natural- or man-made landscape?

Natural- or man-made landscape?

Natural- or man-made landscape?

Natural- or man-made landscape?

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

Location

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

Vegetation

TROPICAL RAINFOREST

Biodiversity

Different forms of life in nature

Read C2.1: Life in the Amazon

Open page 24-25 in your coursebook and G96 and answer the following questions in your notebook.

1. Write down 4 characteristics of the tropical rainforest.
2. In which continent is the biggest rainforest?
3. Explain why Brasil has an unequal population distribution.
4. Explain why there is a lot of deforestation.

Finished? Make exercise 1 in your workbook!

Let's go!

• Read C2.1: Life in the Amazon + GeoGuidenumbers
• Make 1 and 2 from C2.1
  

Rules while working:

• You're allowed to work together. (WHISPERING)
• Raise your finger if you have a question.

What's left is homework for next lesson!

Homework

1 + 2 from C2.1