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Hi Team. We had great fun in class the other day playing the Challenge Board about the Amazon Basin. The mighty ‘DarkandDusty’ team took out the title. To play the quiz again on your own click here. Today, I would like you to pair up and draw on your vast knowledge (and your notes if you have to) and create a puzzle about the Amazon that others can play. Click Here to login as an instructor, I would recommend making a ‘Rags to Riches’ game. Once you have completed your game, submit a link to your puzzle as a comment to this post.

So far in class we have looked at three of the four landscape elements: Relief, Climate and Vegetation. We have looked at both the patterns and processes related to each of them.

Your job is to find out about the soil patterns and processes. This means:

• What types of soil are there in the amazon
• Where they are found
• How/Why each soil type is formed

You need to develop your own notes and resources about these and print them off. You should think about a suitable layout that will fit with the rest of your notes.

You information should include these terms: latosol (latozol), podsol (podzol), alluvium, varzea, terra firme, savanna, leaching, iron, annual, a map or diagram.

Hi team, great to be back. Just a quick recap on what we have been looking at in class.

Year 13 - Evolution of Waihi Beach, including tectonic processes and 5 step diagram.

Year 12 - Relief processes in the Amazon Basin, including formation and coloured rivers. Climatic processes, including convectional rainfall and movement of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

Just to get you thinking geographically…

Try to relate one or more of the Important Geographic Ideas to each of the following images

BubbleShare: Share photos - eco-friendly toys

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Here is a chance to test your revision progress, try answering the following question:

Landscapes usually have some variations in different parts. With reference to your continental landscape, explain TWO major variations that occur.

Submit your answer as a comment to this post. Oh and by the way, your comments are being read by many students and teachers around the country - so make em good. No pressure.

A little advice:Download (29sec)

A useful resource, either before or after you have developed your answer, is the last page of the 2006 Natural Landscapes Marking Schedule.

it gives you an idea of the type of answer, even though it is for the other case-study