Introducing Junior Certificate Geography Tony Dunne

Key Words The Earth is the planet we live on Resources are useful things The atmosphere is the layer of gases around the Earth The population is the people who live in an area ‘Interdependent’ means depending on each other Tony Dunne

Geography is the study of: The Earth The people or population who live on it How the population effects the earth How the Earth effects the population Tony Dunne

What do people need to survive? A B CD E Tony Dunne

What do people need to survive? A.____________________________________ B. ____________________________________ C. ____________________________________ D. ____________________________________ E. ____________________________________ Tony Dunne

What people need to survive Food Air LoveShelter Water Tony Dunne

Where do people get what they need? A B C D Tony Dunne

Where do people get what they need? E Tony Dunne

Activity 2 Where do people get what they need? Food ____________________________________ Water ___________________________________ Air _____________________________________ Shelter __________________________________ Security, support, love ______________________ ________________________________________ Tony Dunne

People get what they need from: The Earth’s resources - food from soil - water from rivers - building materials from rocks and forests - air from the atmosphere Other people - security, support, love Tony Dunne

Spaceship Earth Tony Dunne

Spaceship Earth Tony Dunne

Spaceship Earth Tony Dunne

Spaceship Earth The earth is like a spaceship It has resources to support life The crew is the world’s population The population depends on the earth If we destroy the earth’s resources, we destroy our future The Earth and its population are interdependent Tony Dunne

Activity 3 Explain how the Earth is like a spaceship. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Why must we look after the Earth? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Fill in the missing words in the passage below. The __________ is the planet we live on. The useful things the Earth has are called __________. The layer of gases around the Earth is called the _______________. The population of an area is all the _______________ who live in the area. The Earth and its population depend on one another. They are said to be _________________. Tony Dunne