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.

Examples/research:Identify the problems created by melting alpine glaciers and the human responsesHow do humans adapt to river flooding?List the ways people are dealing with rising water levels on the Nile deltaList several ways people who live in coastal areas deal with floods, erosion, a tsunami.

Look at the questions to the right.List several ways humans have adapted to the land or water forms involved.

Text Readings:4. Red River flooding. P. 29-30 question #7 Part

C5. The Curonian Spit p. 45-46 Question # 17

Part b-e6. 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.

1. Mountains2. Alpine glaciers3. Continental

glaciers4. Bay bar5. Bay beach6. Sea stack7. Sea caves8. Sea arches9. St. Andres Fault

Name 2 of the structures to the right you would most like to visit and state why.

11. Amazon River Basin

12. Cirques in Switzerland

13. Meandering Mississippi

14. Nile Delta15. Drumlins in

Baffin Island16. Volcano in

Hawaii

1.6.5 Propose a solution to a threat posed by selected land and water forms.

Text readings1. Red River Flood p. 29-302. Storm Surges in Bangladesh p.

50-51

Web Reading3. Topics such as floods, tsunamis,

landslides, erosion.

Examine the readings to the right.Propose solutions to the threats.