Landforms
These are natural features of the Earth’s surface, such as mountains, valleys, and plains.
Landforms
This type of map shows the shape and height of land using shading and colour.
Relief map
These are the benefits that the physical environment can provide to people, such as resources or good places to live.
These impacts are caused by people changing the environment, such as building cities or cutting down forests.
Human impact
These are large areas of the Earth that share similar temperature and precipitation patterns.
Climate regions
This landform is the tallest and has a peak at the top, usually over 300 metres high.
Mountain
On a relief map, darker or shaded areas are often used to show this feature of the land.
Higher elevation
These are difficulties caused by the physical environment, such as extreme weather or difficult land for farming.
Challenges
These impacts are caused by nature, such as earthquakes, floods, or volcanic eruptions.
Natural impact
This climate region is found near the equator and is usually hot with lots of rainfall.
Tropical
This landform is a low area of land found between hills or mountains, and often has a river flowing through it.
Valley
This term describes how high or low the land is above sea level, which relief maps help us understand.
Elevation
Why is the hot and humid weather of a tropical rainforest a challenge for humans?
Hot and humid weather makes it difficult for humans to keep themselves cool in the heat
Cutting down large areas of trees for farming or building is an example of this human impact.
Deforestation
This factor causes temperatures to decrease as you go higher up, such as in mountains.
Elevation
This process wears away the Earth’s surface using wind, water, or ice and helps shape landforms over time.
Erosion
If an area on a relief map is very light or flat in colour, it most likely represents this type of landform.
Plain
Fertile soil and flat land in certain regions make it easier for people to grow crops and raise animals. This is an example of what type of opportunity?
Agricultural
A wildfire started by lightning would be considered this type of impact.
Natural impact
This factor affects climate because the farther you are from the equator, the colder it gets.
Latitude
These powerful forces inside the Earth can push land upward and create features like mountains.
Tectonic forces
Explain how a relief map helps you identify where mountains and valleys are located.
Mountains appear as higher, darker/shaded areas, while valleys appear lower and lighter, often between higher areas
Explain one positive and one negative impact of humans changing the physical environment (for example, building or farming).
List the four types of impacts a natural event or human action can have
Economic, environmental, political, and social
This factor transports solar heat from the equator towards the poles, and cold water back to the tropics.
Bodies of water