Some short videos to review landforms and bodies of water

These are two short videos to review and remember the main landforms and bodies of water:

This video includes a quiz: 

You'll find another short quiz on this link: http://www.makemegenius.com/gk-activities-kids/quiz-or-questions/landforms-quiz You can review bodies of water with this video:

   

 Finally, you can review the oceanic crust relief with this video:

 

Some more games to review physical geography

As usual, click on the images to play the games and review:

- This one is to review concepts related to geographic coordinates:

- Here you have another game to review the basic types of maps: 

- And the last one is to review all the concepts related to bodies of water:

Presentation about Spain's relief

Here you have the presentation to complete the map of Spain with its main landforms and bodies of water. Remember that you have to hand in the maps next Wednesday.

Challenge number 11

This week´s challenge will be a "superquestion". The superquestion was the last part of a legendary TV contest, El tiempo es oro (Time is gold). This show was broadcasted between 1987 and 1992 and it was presented by Constantino Romero. In the final part of the show the contestant had to solve three linked questions. The answer to the first question allowed the contestant to go on with the second one and the answer to this one gave the clue to the third and definitive answer. The contestants could use several encyclopedias and dictionaries to solve the questions. You can do the same with your superquestion. As we´re starting a new unit next week, let´s review a little bit!

QUESTION 1

What body of water is this one? Where is it located (continent and country)?

QUESTION 2

One of the countries next to this body of water has five places considered as World Heritage Sites by the UNESCO. Which country is this? What´s its capital city? What of these World Heritage Sites is represented on the following image? Why was this city so important during the Middle Ages?

QUESTION 3

Explain what type of government the country where the body of water and the city of the pictures are located has.

And remember, don´t copy and paste! Write your own answers. You have time until Sunday, 22:00. 

More about waterfalls

In our last lesson we talked about waterfalls. Here you have two interesting links about this subject: 

- This is a blog of a Geography teacher, Mr. Chambers, where he includes useful resources for his students. In this link you can learn how waterfalls are formed: 

http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/2006/11/upper-course-of-river-waterfalls.html

- A curious video of the Devil´s Pool, in Victoria Falls, on the course of Zambezi River. People go there to take a bath on the edge of the waterfalls. This is only possible in the dry season, from September to November, when the river flow is lower. There is a natural wall below the water that protects the bathers and stops them to fall, dragged by the river current.

Some websites to review landforms and bodies of water

Doubtful Sound fjord (New Zealand)

A fjord is an ancient glacial valley that has been flooded by the sea.

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DoubtfulSound-Fjord.jpg

As we have seen this morning, there are lots of landforms on the Earth´s surface. Here you have some useful links to write your definitions:

- List of landforms on the English Wikipedia. You will find a lot of information and pictures that will help you to find the translation in Spanish:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landforms

- List of bodies of water on the English Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_water

- Landforms of the world: a website to find out characteristics of world landforms. You can learn here the main features of several landforms:

http://worldlandforms.com/

- On Enchanted Learning.com you will find an illustrated dictionary of landforms and bodies of water. It is very useful, because every definition includes a drawing that will help you to understand the meaning:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/landforms/glossary.shtml

On the same site there is an interesting section about rivers that includes a glossary of terms related with rivers:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/rivers/