Deforestation

Once you have finished the questions on quarrying. Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSMFIGQ2nI&feature=related and then answer the following questions

Part 4: Deforestation

1. What is deforestation?
2. Why does deforestation occur?
3. What harm does deforestation cause to the environment and to animals/birds/plants?
4. What can be done to try and reduce the effects of deforestation?

Place these answers in the document we have been working on. Include pictures.

Part 3: Quarrying

Part 3: Quarrying

What is quarrying?

Why do we do it?

What harm does it cause to the environment?

What can be done to try to reduce the effects?

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry

•http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography/rocks-and-landscapes/revise-it/quarrying

•http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/rock_landscapes/quarrying_rev1.shtml

•http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4856654.stm

Global Warming Web Links

http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/globalwarming.html

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/ (you'll need headphones for some of it)

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-global-words-seconds.html

Use these to write your article:

Task: Write an article with the title ‘How to save the Earth’.
Part 1: Global warming

What is global warming?

What causes it?

Why is it such a problem?

What can be do to try and reduce it?