Final review of the year
During the year you studied the introductory course of geography. The Earth is one of the Solar System’s 8 planets, shaped like a geoid, rotating on its axis in 24 hours and going round the Sun in 365 days; day and night and the seasons result from this. We locate a place with scale, azimuth, height and geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude), and a map shows the Earth’s surface reduced with conventional signs. The Earth’s shells: the lithosphere (crust, mantle, core; plates, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks and minerals), the hydrosphere (World Ocean, rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater), the atmosphere (nitrogen 78 %, oxygen 21 %; weather in the troposphere) and the biosphere (organisms). Weather is the present state and climate the long-term regime; winds arise from pressure differences. Nature is divided into zones from the equator to the poles. During review solve tasks on your own, such as converting numerical scale to named scale, calculating temperature with height and finding coordinates.
“Geography quiz”: the class forms 3 groups; teams score points on question cards (“continent”, “scale”, “coordinate”, “climate”, “zone”), and answers are checked with the atlas.