ee.1.3 Cold / high altitude extreme environments

Content

  • Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
    • Why some places are considered to be extreme environments
  • Geographic knowledge and understanding
    • Relief and climatic characteristics that make environments extreme
    • How relief, climate, human discomfort present challenges for human habitation and resource development
  • Case study or detailed examples
    • Detailed examples for illustrative purposes of how relief, climate, human discomfort present challenges for human habitation and resource development
  • Aims of this lesson
    • To be able to describe the relief and climatic characteristics that make cold environments extreme
    • To be able to describe and explain how relief and climate can create human discomfort, challenges for human habitation and resource development in cold environments
    • To be able to give detailed examples to provide evidence of your knowledge and understanding of extreme environments

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