Recap of previous learning last week:

In your last Geography lesson, you learned the difference between physical geography and human geography.

You then looked at sorting physical and human features of the United Kingdom.

Today, you will look at the physical geography of a North American country called Canada.

Canada on a world map

Physical Geography

L.O To be able to identify the physical geographical features of Canada.

S.C:

• Identify rivers

• Identify different terrains

Rivers

All rivers start at the highest point in an area. As the river flows downstream, it gains more water from other streams, rivers, springs, added rainfall and other water sources.

A river is freshwater flowing across the surface of the land, usually to the sea.

Rivers begin at their source in higher ground such as mountains or hills, where rain water or melting snow collects and forms tiny streams.

Rivers

On a map, rivers are often represented through blue lines that run from their point down to the sea.

The different colours on maps are used to represent the terrain and show how hilly or mountainous an area is.

These colours represent how far above sea level it is in that area of land.

Which area is more mountainous?

Is it east Canada or west Canada?

Mountains

Discussion

1. From the last slide, which trees are most commonly found in

Canada?

2. Which tree species are the least common?

2. Watch the video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpfHIRn4ZAConsidering that Canada is near the Arctic Circle, what do you think the

weather is like most of the time in most of the places?

Use the key below to draw mountains and rivers on your map.

Label these rivers on a map of Canada. You can draw the map if you don’t have one.Using digimaps or Google maps, locate the following rivers in Canada.

• Mackenzie River

• Yukon River

• St Lawrence River

• Nelson River

• Slave River

• Columbia River

• Saskatchewan River

• Peace River

• Churchill River

• South Saskatchewan River

MountainsUsing digimaps or Google maps, find:

• Mount Logan

• Mount Robson.

• Label these mountains on your map of Canada

• Go onto https://kids.kiddle.co/Mount_Logan

and find out some fun facts about Mount Logan and write them in your book.

• Go onto this website for Mount Robson.

• https://easyscienceforkids.com/mount-logan/