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Online Geography Resources |
Populations in Extreme Environments |
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Base knowledge and understanding |
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Data Visualization |
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Synthesis |
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Ways in which people adapt their activities to extremes of weather and climate - Yakutsk, Russia |
| Make notes on how the people of Yakutsk cope with the extreme cold. |
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How the people of Oymyakon district cope with everyday life under such extraordinary conditions [1 December 2010] |
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Ways in which people adapt their activities to extremes of weather and climate - Hot and arid |
| Make notes on how the people of Djibouti's Lake Assal region cope with the extreme heat. |
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A life of constant thirst beside Djibouti's Lake Assal [4 December 2010] |
BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent: Pascale Harter's learning how to endure endless thirst in one of the hottest places on the planet. [Source] |
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Factors responsible for a low density of population in extreme environments: human discomfort, inaccessibility, remoteness |
Find, describe and explain a named example for low population density (within the extreme environments we are studying) due to the following:
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Review |
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Where would you rather live - extreme hot, extreme cold or extremely remote? Why? |
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