The day the mountains flooded
This country is home to Mount Everest and was the setting for our disaster case study.
What is Nepal?
The speed at which the water travelled.
What is 165km/h?
The capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
A map showing elevation is known as this type of map.
What is a topographic map?
This country is so large that it spans 11 time zones.
What is Russia?
This type of event caused widespread destruction despite occurring in a mountainous region covered in ice.
What is a flood?
The height of the wall of water at its peak.
What is 90 - 100M?
This continent contains both the Sahara Desert and the Nile River.
What is Africa?
The process by which water changes from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
If you stood on the Equator and travelled due north, you would eventually reach this ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Students used this inquiry strategy to record observations and questions from the disaster images.
Notice and ?
What is notice and wonder?
The width of the size of the ice sheet that fell.
What is 1.6km?
The term used to describe a change in the physical cover of Earth's surface.
What is Land cover transformation?
The world's largest rainforest.
What is the Amazon?
This is the only continent that has no permanent human population.
What is Antarctica?
Evidence such as wider river channels, erosion and sediment deposits suggests this has occurred. It is also the title of our unit.
What is Land cover transformation?
The length of time it took water to hit the Chinese embassy?
What is 7 - 8 minutes?
The frozen ground found in Arctic regions.
What is permafrost?
The worlds oldest rainforest
What is the Daintree?
More people live in this global city than the entire population of Australia.
What is Tokyo?
The Nepal Floods were this type of disaster.
What is natural?
The height from which the ice sheet fell?
What is approximately 5000M?
This mountain range runs along the border of Nepal and contains Mount Everest
What are the Himalayas?
This country produces the greatest amount of carbon dioxide emissions overall.
What is China?
This country contains the world's highest mountain, deepest gorge, and one of the youngest mountain ranges on Earth.
What is Nepal?