Study the map above carefully

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 You will link images to certain climatic regions (Polar, Tundra, Desert, Mediterranean or Chaparral, Savanna Grassland and rainforest)  You will compare and contrast the characteristics of these climatic regions  You will study writers quotes to determine further the characteristics of the regions  You will locate images and quotes on a world map 

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Which of the images here show deserts? 

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    1) Hot Desert-Death Valley 2) Cold Desert Tundra-Canada 3) Cold Desert Polar-Antarctica 4) Hot Desert- Sahara Why is the Valley floor in Death Valley white? 

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Which of these images are rainforest and why?

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1 and 4 are rainforest. What are your reasons? What might 2 be? Think about the map. 2 is savannah-the region closest to rainforest Where do you think image 3 is from? (This one is harder…)  3 is Tundra-proving that some really diverse plants can grow even in the coldest climates     

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From the pictures only, describe a typical Mediterranean landscape Again, using only the pictures, describe a typical Mediterranean climate 

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Use a little of what you’ve learned-name that climatic region!

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 1) Polar- Dry Valleys in McMurdo, Antarctica  2) Savanna- Serengeti Plain, Africa  3) Desert-Mojave, USA  4) Tundra-No location given 

The top images are Savannah, while the bottom are of rainforest. Using the images, list what you think the main differences between these climatic regions might be 

Quotes
• • “If there is a hell, this is the place, and the sleeping bags are worse than hell” Ernest Shackleton "If (it) were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it." Denton “4 p.m. I lie on a thin grubby mattress in my room. The air is unmoving. The thermometer shows ninety-eight Fahrenheit, but it's dry heat, just bearable. Flies settle on my mouth and nostrils” Palin “We are moored up for the night and the air is stagnant, muggy and lifeless. I have doused myself in so many layers of insect repellent that my skin feels like fly-paper. Open the cabin window as far as it will go and wait for the bat food to start buzzing round me. And this was supposed to be the comfortable part of the journey.” Palin

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“We have said some terrible things! When I say we, I mean I identify myself with environmentalists and ecologists. We have said terrible things, like, in 10 years there will be (none) left

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