1 6 Understand how landforms and water forms

1. 6 Understand how landforms and water forms influence human activity. This section is intended to make students apply, analyze and think about how land forms & water forms affect human activity

1. 6. 1&2 Examine examples to illustrate how human activity adapts to land forms and water forms. Look at the questions to the right. List several ways humans have adapted to the land or water forms involved. Examples/research: Identify the problems created by melting alpine glaciers and the human responses How do humans adapt to river flooding? List the ways people are dealing with rising water levels on the Nile delta List several ways people who live in coastal areas deal with floods, erosion, a tsunami. Text 4. 5. 6. Readings: Red River flooding. P. 29 -30 question #7 Part C The Curonian Spit p. 45 -46 Question # 17 Part b-e Storm Surges in Bangladesh p. 50 -51. What two adaptations did Bangladesh institute after the 1970 disaster.

1. 6. 3&4 Justify a preference for the appeal of selected landforms and water forms. Name 2 of the structures to the right you would most like to visit and state why. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Mountains Alpine glaciers Continental glaciers Bay bar Bay beach Sea stack Sea caves Sea arches St. Andres Fault 11. Amazon River Basin 12. Cirques in Switzerland 13. Meandering Mississippi 14. Nile Delta 15. Drumlins in Baffin Island 16. Volcano in Hawaii

1. 6. 5 Propose a solution to a threat posed by selected land water forms. Examine the readings to the right. Propose solutions to the threats. Text readings 1. Red River Flood p. 29 -30 2. Storm Surges in Bangladesh p. 50 -51 Web Reading 3. Topics such as floods, tsunamis, landslides, erosion.