Geography: Age 10

10 illustrated Geography lessons for Age 10.

Undersea cables connect the world The Internet is a network that covers the whole world. Thick cables lie on the ocean floor and carry messages …
Cables Across the Ocean The Internet is a worldwide network, and much of it travels through thick cables lying on the sea floor. These…
Sorting Waste in the City When a family puts glass, paper, plastic and metal in separate bins, a truck can collect each material on its …
Cables Under the Sea Undersea fibre-optic cables lie on the ocean floor and connect continents. They carry almost all the data that…
A river and its flood plain A river usually flows in a small channel between grassy banks. When heavy rain comes, the water spreads over t…
Warm ocean storms Tropical cyclones are huge spinning storms. They begin over warm ocean water near the equator, not over land o…
Ways Between Cities People travel between cities by high-speed rail, motorway, air and sea. These routes connect nearby towns, far…
Trams, Buses, Bikes and Feet In a city street, people travel in different ways: by tram on rails, by bus in its own lane, by bicycle in a b…
Population distribution People are not spread evenly across the world: some places are crowded and others are almost empty. Crowded pl…
Natural resources and where they come from Almost everything you use each day starts somewhere in nature, and each thing comes from its own place. Food i…