Geography Notes (Unit 1 and 2)

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Smog Acid rain

1.5 Energy and the environment


• Everything we use or buy has been made using the energy.
• Most of the energy comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural
gas).
Acid rain
• When fossil fuels are burned, they produced the harmful gases that
pollute the air.it forms as the acid rain. It kills water animals and Damages
buildings.
Smog
• Smog is a murky brown layer in the air.It hurts people’s eyes and
damage their lungs.
1.6 It’s a noisy
world.
• Noise is sound that we do not like or do not
want. Like litter, noise is a kind of pollution.
It spoils our environment.
• Everyone needs to rest and sleep.
• Your body grows and repairs itself when you
are asleep.
• It is difficult to rest or sleep when it is noisy.
• It is also difficult to think and work when it is
very noisy.
• We can reduce noise pollution by using
silencers in vehicles, ear defenders for
people who are working in noisy area and
soft foam,fiber glass, double glazed window
and triple glazed window for buildings.
1.7 Improving our
environment

• We can improve our environment by


getting together and sharing our ideas.
• We might be able to plant some trees,
make window boxes or flower beds.
• If we don’t have enough space for a
garden, we can still plant flowers in tub of
soil or compost.
• We can encourage wildlife by making nest
boxes, bird table and bird bath.
2.1 Early villages
2. The earliest 3. The earliest
1. A village is a their meat and
people roamed the people often built
small group of skins, and wild
countryside temporary
farms, houses and fruits and seeds to
hunting wild settlements of
other buildings. eat.
animals for tents to live in.

4. Nearly 11 000 5. The first villages


years ago, people
started farming and
kept farm animals.
were built when the
people started to
to grow their food
around them.
Villages on hill or cliff – To defend
planted crops and live in one place against enemies

7. This might be
6. People built the
near a river, a
early villages where washing and
stream, a spring or
there was water for cooking.
in the desert, an
drinking,
oasis.

Villages near sheltered harbor – good fishing


2.2 Balad Sayt Village
• Balad Sayt village – a cluster of houses- made of stone and mud.
• It’s on the side of a small hill and is surrounded by rocky hills and
cliffs over 1000 metres high.
• The villagers used pure water come down from Hajar mountain.
• People grow crops in terraced fields, built like steps on the slopes
of the surrounding hills. ( main crops – alfafa and wheat)
• There are also many date palms and some mulberry trees, grown
for their fruits.
• Balad Sayt can only be reached by travelling in a four-wheel drive
vehicle along rough tracks.
• Many tourists travel to Balad Sayt each year.
2.3 How a village grows

• Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.


• It is the second largest city, after Dubai.
• Abu Dhabi is an island, 240 meters from the mainland.
• People survived by doing these things.

Everything changed after the


discovery of oil. Abu Dabi now have
highways, university, tall buildings,
blocks of apartments and airport.

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