Pinatubo was one of the largest eruptions in the 20th century. It was also one of the loudest noises! We are going to do some work in class on Pinatubo. You will need some information to help you. I want you to do some research on the eruption in 1991. Can you find out how the volcano effected the surrounding land and people. Produce one page that describes one effect in detail. You may paste in pictures, but you must describe the effect in YOUR OWN words. The links below may help:
If you want to get ahead with the flooding assessment, I have added links to the Year 7 page (see tab at top of this page) to the instructions, level criteria and assessment sheets. We WILL GO THROUGH THIS IN CLASS, but if you feel confident enough to get started yourselves then please do.
Sorry for the delay in getting this working kids. By your lesson next week (28th – 2nd) you need to have researched both the Mozambique floods of 2000 (you may also like to find something out about more recent floods there) and one example of flooding in the UK (try to make it the last 10 years). You have written both these HW’s into your diaries, so there is no real excuse for not doing them.
For the UK flood sort your research into information about:
causes of the flood
effects of the flood (on people and places)
responses to the flood (what was done about the flood and who did it) – you might find it helps to think of this as short term and long term responses.
Your HW is to find some information about flooding in Mozambique – the flood we have been looking at in class happened in 2000, but there have been others since. Investigate this further and produce a page of information and pictures showing what you have found out. Try to find any personal experiences or eyewitness accounts if you can. The link to the BBC below might get you started…
Make sure that you have completed the case study sheet on the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens by next wednesday. The sheet is available to download below for those of you who have lost it…
Some places have a high population, they are crowded. Other places have a very low population, very few people live there. The reason for these variations can be to do with climate, relief, soil, transport, jobs, resources, and many other factors. Download the sheet below and study the 2 photo’s – can you suggest reasons why they have high or low populations?
Sorry for the delay, techno problems! What I would like you to do is investigate population structure. Visit the US Census Bureau’s International Databaseand find a population pyramid for the UK. Paste this into a word document. Then choose two other countries and paste their population pyramids onto the same document. Compare the three population pyramids. Write a few statements describing the similarities and differences. Can you suggest reasons?
This is due in your lesson next week (GF -22nd, KL – 23rd, MA and JN – 24th).
