Warm Up – January 6Start a new paper for Warm-ups January 6 – 23rd.The countries shown in white are the only ones that have never been invaded by England. What does this tell you about the areas we will study this year?

Locate the place given to you when you came in the classroom.

Check your maps to be sure you have the right place.

Trade your slip with three other people. On the Warm Up page for January 7th write

“map work.”

Warm up-January 7

This is a picture of the Aswan Dam, built on the Nile River, that you read about yesterday.

List one advantage of the dam and one disadvantage.

Warm Up – January 8

Warm Up – January 9Termite mounds were mentioned in yesterday’s video. In the tropical areas they form mounds which can be 25 feet tall and are up to 40 feet in diameter. As termites are on average 0.4 inch long, if humans did something similar, they should build a building 4,600 feet tall ! The world's tallest man-made structure is the 2,722 foot tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.But these mounds serve a much greater purpose than those benefits the termites receive.

What other purposes could they serve in this ecosystem? List at least 2.

Warm up – January 9

Warm Up – January 12Each of the 7 colors shown on this map represent one billion people. What surprises you about this map?

Warm Up – January 13Victoria Falls is in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.

It is not the highest or the widest waterfall but is a “superlative.” • How else could waterfalls be

measured?• Record one other idea and the

fame of Victoria Falls

January 14 – Warm UpThis feature is caused by the movement of tectonic plates.• What is it called?• What kind of plate

boundary is this?• What are the

effects of these plate movements?

January 15 – Warm UpA river basin is all the land drained by a river. The Congo river basin is home to the second largest rainforest in the world. • What do you think is

the largest rainforest?• List at least 5

countries that are part of this huge river basin.

Warm Up – January 16Photos of places mentioned in yesterday’s video:

Danakil Depression - In Ethiopia, it is the hottest place on earth – 125 degrees

Lake Bogoria -below – alkaline lake that would burn our skin.

1. What caused these land formations?

2. Is this still happening today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXinBxHtKV0

http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/dogs-101/videos/belgian-malinois/

This place is going to the dogs!