1. The geography of the USA LO: To understand the diversity of natural biomes in the United States of America To map to population distribution of the USA

2. 5 minute challenge How many of the states of the United States of America can you locate on a map

3. Answers http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=cMp3- fDL6Do

4. Key geographic skill- annotating maps Annotating maps requires you to include comments on the map itself and to place these comments in the relevant locations. Comments added after the maps are not acceptable. Common problems tend to be that students produce small, untidy, inaccurate maps that are not located and lack orientation.

5. Natural Environment of the USA

6. Map of the USA

7. A biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factor.

8. Task: natural environments of the USA mapping All: Map the biomes of the United States onto your base map. Most: Use annotations to explain why the biomes exist where they do. Use the Geog 2 textbook p 48- 51 to help you.

9. Can you locate the four images used at the start of this lesson on your base map?

10. Human Environment of the USA What is this map showing?

11. Guess: what are the 10 most populous cities of the USA?

12. Answers….. Can you suggest geographical reasons for the distribution of the 10 most populous cities?

14. Chloropleth map

16. So…why are we looking at this? Final assessment task