Preminda Langer

Google earth simulation.kmz

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 Let’s think!
Can you guess which
mountain range this is?
Annapurna
 Let’s think!
Why do you think The Himalayas are the
“Annapurna”, the givers of food to India?
The Himalayas
 True giver of अन्न, food is the
Earth

Google Earth
simulation

Rotate the earth.kmz

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 Questions submitted by students
What are examples of the different
types of geographies in which crops
are grown? 
Where did the different types of
crops originate?
Why is crop rotation important?
Vocabulary

Floodplain
River Basin
River systems
Bread basket
Great plains
 Questions submitted by students

What are examples of the different

types of geographies in which crops
are grown? 
Flood plain
Flood
Plain

River
Basin
 Let’s think!
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE
CONTINENTS THEY BELONG TO?
Some of the famous RIVER BASINS are:
The Nile River
The Volga
The Missouri and Mississippi
The Yangtze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhEr4JyvucM

Play time (with sound): 00:15 sec till 49 secs

 The Plains

The plains have always been the bread

baskets of our planet and her people.
The
Great
Plains
 The Great Plains: WOW
Did you know
that many
millennia ago
the Sahara
desert was
covered with
vegetation?
 The Great Plains: WOW

The Thar Desert was once fertile and

irrigated by the extinct River Saraswati.
 The
Great
Plains
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toYkHbBR1Cc&feature=fvw
Play time: 00:20 sec till 55 secs
 Let’s think
Why is the Amazon River Basin
not a bread basket?
 There are certain food
items that originated in a
certain area, but now are
found all over the world.
Let us take you on a
Journey of Food
 Let’s think

Which food travelled our

Earth by sea, long before
humans walked the planet?
 Journey of Food
What trees
are these?

Where
did they
originate?
Journey Of Foods
Let’s think
Besides potatoes,
which other food came
to us from South
America?
A.Pepper
B.Coffee
C.Chocolate
D.Tomato
STATS ‘N’ FACTS
 STATS ‘N’ FACTS
Wool :
Which
country
produces
the most
wool?
 Sheep
shearing
video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eR2cIpNh7Y&feature=related

Play time: full video (with sound mute)

 STATS ‘N’ FACTS
Dairy:
Which country
has the most
pisciculture ?
 Let’s Think!

What came before , the

chicken or the egg?
Can you read out that number?
Chicken headcount in 2004

100
10
1

China – 8,860,000,000
Poultry
farming
video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DghMDEGIxe0&feature=related

Play time: 00:20 to 00:40 sec till end (with sound mute)
 Let’s Think!
Does any body farm insects?

Sericulture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDcVZ7Iugw
http://vimeo.com/6912365
Play time: 00:00 till end (with sound mute)
Play time: 00:00 till end (with sound mute)
 Questions submitted by students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwp1lY2OlK0

Play time: Full video (with sound )