Project Creators:
Steve
Wanner - Geography Teacher - Boulder High School
Joseph
Kerski - Geographer - USGS
Paula Dunbar - Colorado State University
Grade Level: 9
Discipline: Geography
Project Creators:
Steve
Wanner - Geography Teacher - Boulder High School
Joseph
Kerski - Geographer - USGS
Paula Dunbar - Colorado State University
Grade Level: 9
Discipline: Geography
This project contains 7 activities in physical and cultural geography, including climate, population density, relief, mining, manufacturing, earthquakes, faults, volcanoes, tsunamis, and fires. Each activity builds on the data, skills, and concepts learned in the previous activity, and all are based on the ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS) software.
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the Data for the first 3 activities of the Africa Project in
.zip format, 3.2 MB.
Goal: Understand the interrelationships among characteristics of the physical environment of Africa.
Don't have a GIS? Here is a non-GIS
version of the same activity, using published maps.
Goal: Under the interrelationships among characteristics of the physical and human environment of Africa.
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version of the same activity, using published maps.
Goal: Understand the interrelationships among resources, the human environment, and the physical environment of Africa.
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version of the same activity, using published maps.
Goal: Understand the pattern of natural hazards in Africa.
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Activity 4 in .zip format, 5.4 MB.
Goal: Understand the human dimension of natural hazards in Africa.
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version of the same activity, using published maps.
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Activity 5 in .zip format, 50KB.
Goal: Understand the physical and human dimensions of tsunamis in Africa.
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Activity 6 in .zip format, 3 KB.
Goal: Understand the physical and human dimensions of fires in Africa.
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Activity 7 in .zip format, 626 KB.
| Activity | Data Required | Views Created |
| 1 Physical | 30deg.shp (30 degree grid) | Relief. |
| lakes.shp | Climate. | |
| country.shp | Precip. | |
| relief.shp | Vegetation. | |
| rivers.shp | ||
| belt.shp (climate belts) | ||
| veget.shp | ||
| precipyr.shp | ||
| 2 Physical and Human | All of the above , plus: | Use above views |
| cities.shp | ||
| 3 Resources | All of the above, plus: | Use above views |
| manuf.shp | ||
| minerals.shp | ||
| mining.shp | ||
| pipeline.shp | ||
| popden.shp | ||
| 4 Volcanoes and Earthquakes | All of the above, plus: | Plate boundaries, earthquakes, and volcanoes. |
| earthquakes.shp | ||
| volcanoes.shp | ||
| plates.shp | ||
| continent.shp | ||
| 5 Human Dimension of Natural Hazards | All of the above, plus: | Faults, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes in Africa. |
| afr_eq.shp | ||
| volrecen.shp | ||
| volafr.shp | ||
| faults.shp | ||
| 6 Tsunamis | All of the above, plus: | Tsunami effects in Africa. |
| t_source.shp | ||
| t_effect.shp | ||
| 7 Fires | All of the above, plus: | Fires in Africa. |
| landuse.shp | ||
| firept.shp | ||
| firept.avl |