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Hi Guys, next lesson we will be using voicethread to anaylse and practise a past exam question on Natural Landscapes. We have got you all registered and some of you even managed to upload an audio sample. Once we have all completed our comments we will have a smorgasbord of exam interpretations and responses to learn from. Great stuff!

Click here for the full screen version or check out the embed below.

Here is a couple of little games for the Year 12 class:

Getting to know Auckland Quiz     Land Use in Auckland Quiz
               

Now that you have completed a short answer quiz about the natural processes in the South Island High Country, it is time to have a go at a long answer that requires qualitative information.

Go to the following NZQA page with past Level 2 exam questions: Choose your own Natural Landscape question and develop an answer over the next two lessons.

Your answer needs to be about the SIHC, but you can use questions from the New Zealand Setting or the Continental Setting.

Remember to use Mr Cranston’s Handy Geo Writing Guide. and What essay ‘command words’ mean.

Please submit your selected question and answer as a comment.

Test your knowledge of natural processes in the South Island High Country with ‘The MIGHTY SIHC Quiz’. It is hosted on Moodle so you will need to be a member of TeamGeo to play it. I will be emailed your first attempt results automatically, you can then have more ungraded attempts. Good Luck!

In class we have been talking about the different factors that influence climate in New Zealand. We have also gathered some information about the climatic characteristics of named places in the SIHC.

Your task today is (to be completed in a Google Doc):

1. view the climograph data (in the embedded spreadsheet) and describe the climate for each location.
2. try to match the locations with the named settlement.
3. Choose two of the SIHC towns and explain how and why their climates differ.

Extension task:

Try to create a climograph in Excel using one set of climate data

Climatic Data SIHC - Find Documents