1. 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

2. 1. 6. 1&2. Examine examples to illustrate how human
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 responses
How do humans adapt to river flooding?
List the ways people are dealing with rising water levels on the Nile delta
List 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:
Red River flooding. P question #7 Part C
The Curonian Spit p Question # 17 Part b-e
Storm Surges in Bangladesh p What two adaptations did Bangladesh institute after the 1970 disaster.

3. 1.6.3&4 Justify a preference for the appeal of selected landforms and water forms.
Amazon River Basin
Cirques in Switzerland
Meandering Mississippi
Nile Delta
Drumlins in Baffin Island
Volcano in Hawaii
Name 2 of the structures to the right you would most like to visit and state why.
Mountains
Alpine glaciers
Continental glaciers
Bay bar
Bay beach
Sea stack
Sea caves
Sea arches
St. Andres Fault

4. 1. 6. 5. Propose a solution to a threat posed
1.6.5 Propose a solution to a threat posed by selected land and water forms.
Text readings
Red River Flood p
Storm Surges in Bangladesh p
Web Reading
Topics such as floods, tsunamis, landslides, erosion.
Examine the readings to the right.
Propose solutions to the threats.