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Haslingden High School Geography Department

HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 8 Block A

If you are struggling see your Geography teacher or go to homework club.

Instructions

This homework booklet is all about mountains which is a brand new

topic.

You have learnt some skills in your Geography lessons that will help you

with this booklet.

Read each page carefully and do your best.

If you have any problems, you should ask your Geography teacher or go to

homework club.

Look out for the clock on each task that tells you the maximum

time you should spend on each task. 20


Mountains of the World

Lots of people can’t agree on what a mountain actually is!

You should label these mountain areas (shaded in grey) onto the map:

Mountain Range Continent Rockies North America Andes South America Alps Europe Himalayas Asia Atlas Africa Great Dividing Range Oceania Transantarctic Mountains Antarctica

You should now label these tall mountains (triangles) onto the map:

Mountain Height (m) Continent Mt. McKinley 6,194 North America Aconcagua 6,960 South America Mt. Blanc 4,807 Europe Mt. Everest 8,848 Asia Vinson Massif 4,897 Antarctica Puncak Jaya 5,040 Oceania Mt. Kilimanjaro 5,895 Africa

Most people agree that a

mountain has to be at least

1000m tall!

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Help: there is only one mountain range and one highest mountain for each continent!

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AMERICA

SOUTH

AMERICA

AFRICA

EUROPE

ASIA

OCEANIA

ANTARCTICA


Mountain Climate

Mountains can be dangerous places to be if bad weather arrives. For every 100m you climb uphill, it gets 1˚C colder. So for every 1000m you go uphill it gets 10˚C colder. You must complete the temperature for each height on the diagram.

Why do you think you only get snow above 3000m?

You need to wrap

up warm to climb

a mountain!!

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Mountain Climate

As well as getting colder, mountains are also pretty wet. Here’s why…

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Weather in Innsbruck

Innsbruck is a city in Austria that is on the mountains.

You must use the climate graph on the next page to answer questions

about the weather in Innsbruck.

On a climate graph the bars show you total rain and snow and the line

shows you how hot it is. Make sure you use the correct scale!

1) Which is the hottest month? _________________________

2) Which is the coldest month? _________________________

3) Which is the wettest month? _________________________

4) Which is the driest month? _________________________

5) Instead of rain what might it be in Dec, Jan and Feb? ____________________

6) If you lived here, how might it affect you? ________________________________

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Months of the Year

Climate Graph for Innsbruck


Coniferous Trees

Pine trees can survive high up in the mountains because they have

adapted to their environment.

You must finish the sentences to show 4 ways they have adapted:

Pine trees are shaped like a

traffic c___e. The shape

helps them to shake s___w

off the branches before

they sn___p under the

weight.

Pine trees have thick bark

that helps them to survive

the c___d.

Pine trees often grow close

together. This helps them

to stay w___m. It also

helps them to stay

protected from strong

w___d.

Pine trees keep their seeds

inside pine cones. This help

them to survive for longer

in the c___d.

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Mountain Animals

Match up the following 6 mountain animals with their description

on the other side:

1) It is dark brown which helps to absorb

more heat from the sun. It lives high up in

the Himalayas and eats tiny grains of pollen

blown by the wind. Letter = ___

2) Its thick woolly coat is very warm but

sometimes it gets too hot so it also has bare

legs. To cool down, it sticks its bum in the

air facing the wind! It spits chewed up food

at its enemies and lives in the Andes.

Letter = ___

3) It lives in the mountains of Japan and

keeps warm in winter by taking a dip in

one of the hot pools; the outside

temperature is -15°C but in the pool it’s

43°C! Letter = ___

4) It has sharp hooves to dig into cracks in

rocks to stop it from slipping. It’s brilliant

at climbing and has great balance for

walking along narrow ledges. Letter = ___

5) It picks up bones from dead animals and

flies high in the air. Then it drops the bone

on to a rock to smash it open and get at the

juicy middle bit. Letter = ___

6) It lives high up in the mountains of

Mexico. It can survive being frozen solid

for the whole night before being thawed by

the sun in the morning! Letter = ___

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Tourism in the Mountains

Your final task is to look at tourism in the mountains and decide

whether it is a good or bad thing.

This is a picture of a ski resort in the Alps. You must label the features

written in bold in the word box:

You can now colour the picture in.

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Chamonix, France

Chamonix in a ski resort in France. Below is a picture showing the

good points and bad points of a ski resort:

You must answer this final question using the information about Chamonix:

In your opinion do you think ski resorts are a good thing for the

mountains? Circle good or bad and give at least 3 reasons:

I think that ski resorts are a good / bad thing for the mountains because…

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E2 List some effects of new ski resorts but not directed toward one viewpoint

E3 Gives some reasons for or against new ski resorts, one sided.

1 Includes own opinion and gives reasons for this using information straight from the booklet, one sided.

2 Gives balanced views for and against new ski resorts to explain their own opinion and includes information from the booklet about why mountains should be protected.

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