Geography: Age 15

6 illustrated Geography lessons for Age 15.

One River, Many Users Farms, factories and towns all take water from the same river, and every litre one user takes is a litre the o…
Dams, Reservoirs and Irrigation Freshwater is unevenly distributed: some places have snow, rivers and reservoirs, while others are dry. Dams s…
Floodwater and Homes A river has spread across its floodplain. Homes on tall stilts stay dry while nearby low homes are reached by …
Water in a Dry Valley Freshwater is not spread evenly across the planet. Farms and cities use large amounts, so people build dams, p…
Colliding Plates Raise Mountains Two thick slabs of continental crust push into each other. The rock between them folds upward and thickens, bu…
Carbon on the Move Carbon is an element that keeps travelling between the air, plants, soil and the ocean. Plants pull it out of …