describe the spatial and temporal setting of the event describe and explain the association of the event to plate boundaries and plate movement assess the perception of the and the factors affecting those perceptions at a range of scales eg, magnitude, – frequency, population characteristics etc. explain the causes of the event explain and assess the impacts of the event explain, assess and justify the response to the event including the factors affecting this response. 7–8 Storm hazards – Specification Subject specific Learning outcomes Suggested learning activities Resources content skills (including ref to differentiation development and extension activities) The nature of Use of key Understand that the nature of tropical storms Opportunity for students to use tropical storms subject specific is determined by their origins within the textbook/internet resources to and their and technical tropics. To be able to explain the causes of ensure they have detailed notes to underlying terminology. tropical storms, to include: explain the underlying causes of causes. Forms of ocean location where sea temperatures tropical storms. Short from National Opportunities to storm hazard: are above 27oc Geographic develop skills Opportunity for students to high winds, storm ocean depth of at least 70m to provide such as drawing, research the distribution of tropical surges, coastal moisture and latent heat Summary from National labelling and storms and annotate a base map of flooding, river a location beyond 5o north and south of Hurricane Center of annotating the Earth accordingly. flooding and the equator where the effect of the Coriolis diagrams. landslides. force is greatest Information on Spatial low level convergence of air distribution,
describe the spatial and temporal setting of the event describe and explain the association of the event to plate boundaries and plate movement assess the perception of the and the factors affecting those perceptions at a range of scales – eg, magnitude, frequency, population characteristics etc. explain the causes of the event explain and assess the impacts of the event explain, assess and justify the response to the event including the factors affecting this response. 7–8 – Storm hazards Specification content Subject specific skills development Learning outcomes Suggested learning activities (including ref to differentiation and extension activities) Resources The nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes. Forms of storm hazard: high winds, storm surges, coastal flooding, river flooding and landslides. Spatial distribution, Use of key subject specific and technical terminology. Opportunities to develop skills such as drawing, labelling and annotating diagrams. Understand that the nature of tropical storms is determined by their origins within the tropics. To be able to explain the causes of tropical storms, to include: ocean location where sea temperatures are above 27oc ocean depth of at least 70m to provide moisture and latent heat a location beyond 5o north and south of the equator where the effect of the Coriolis force is greatest low level convergence of air Opportunity for students to use textbook/internet resources to ensure they have detailed notes to explain the underlying causes of tropical storms. Opportunity for students to research the distribution of tropical storms and annotate a base map of the Earth accordingly. Short from National Geographic Summary from National Hurricane Center of Information on
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