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Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments Unit PlanGeographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments Unit Plan
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Geographypods
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9th - 10th
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Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments

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A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these, there are subtopics, e.g., earthquakes and tornadoes, erosion and coastal processes, measuring and analyzing weather, and biomes and biodiversity. Modules are accompanied by handouts, PowerPoints, infographics, videos, activities, animations, maps, and excellent external links.

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biodiversity, biomes, climate, desertification, earthquakes, environmental hazards, erosion, landforms, natural disasters, plate tectonics, tornadoes, tropical storms, volcanoes, weather data, weathering, continental drift, desert biome

Additional Tags

analyzing weather, coastal processes, fold mountains, hot spot volcano, measuring weather, natural catastrophes, rain forest, river features, river flooding, types of clouds, 1985 eruption of nevado del ruiz, alps, japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami, sahel, desert, drought, eruption of mount etna in 2002, rainforest, earth's processes, rain forest biome, weather and climate

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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