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Unit 15: The mountain environment
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
What is a mountain environment?
What features do these environments have?
What features does a mountain environment have?
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Where are mountain environments found?
The Andes
The Alps
The Himalayas
The Pyrenees
The Rockies
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
What are these places like?
The HimalayasThe Pyrenees The Rockies
Choose a mountain environment to investigate.• What plants and animals live there?• What is the weather like?• How is this environment different from other mountain environments?
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
The mountain environment
Trees and other plants grow on
the lower slopes and animals live
here too.
On the higher parts of the mountain,
nothing can grow and there
are fewer animals
The higher up the mountain you go, the
thinner the air is, which makes
it harder to breathe
At the top of very high
mountains, it stays cold all the time and
the snow never melts
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
How does the weather compare in each of these places?
You can use the internet to find out details about the weather in the mountain
environment you are studying.
Here are some of the things that you should find out:
the average temperature
the amount of rain or
snow the amount of sunshine
the amount and speed of
wind
what time the sun
rises/sets
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
What effect does the weather have on tourism?
This picture shows the Alps, between France, Italy and Switzerland.
Many people go there on skiing holidays.
How do you think the weather might have an effect on people’s skiing holiday?
What would happen if it was too warm?
What would happen if it snowed too much?
Geography
Unit 15: The mountain environment
Unit 15: The mountain environment
What equipment would we need for a mountain expedition?
Can you think of anything else?
warm clothes
first aid kit ice axe
climbing bootsmaps
climbing rope
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