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Online Geography Resources |
Sustainability in Extreme Environments |
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Base knowledge and understanding |
Video Clip |
Data Visualization |
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News Article |
Words to be defined |
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Context |
The aims of this lesson: |
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Syllabus linkage: Patterns and Change - Sustainability and the Environment |
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Answer the questions by hand - no note-taking frame |
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Answer the questions using this Google Documents note-taking frame |
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Synthesis |
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"Human activities in high altitude environments are unsustainable" |
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Syllabus linkage: Tourism - The Alpine Ski Industry | |
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Eco-Business - Xinjiang to ban tourists to glaciers [12 February 2016] | |
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powder - How a Tarp Is Helping to Save Skiing in Chamonix [12 February 2016] |
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Bloomberg Businessweek: Europe's Endangered Slopes [15 December 2006] |
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"Human activities in hot, arid environments are unsustainable" |
[Watch from 2:28 to 12:49] |
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Syllabus linkage: Agriculture in Hot, Arid Environments | |
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Syllabus linkage: Hot, Arid: Resource Development Uranium Mining in Niger | |
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SciDev.Net: Underground oasis may boost Egypt's development [10 November 2011] | |
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IRIN - Desert residents pay high price for lucrative uranium mining [30 March 2009] |
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Review |
After looking at four areas of human activity in extreme environments (agriculture, mineral extraction in periglacial environments and mineral extraction in hot and arid environments and alpine tourism) do you think that human activities in extreme environments are unsustainable? Draft a conclusion to the following exam style question: "Human activities in extreme environments are unsustainable." Discuss the validity of this statement [10 marks] |
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