The Earth and Human Activity

As part of your warm up, answer the following questions to the best of your ability:

1. What do humans need to survive?

2. Where do humans “get” the resources they need to survive?

3. Now be specific! Where do the following items come from? (Location on Earth? How Made?) Metals:

Oil:

Plastics:

Food:

Electricity:

Clothes:

4. Are these items available in an unlimited supply?

5. Are there any consequences to our mining/harvesting/making and using them?

Use the World Map below to identify where you think the following resources are located in the world: Oil, iron, gold, coal

Why can’t oil, iron, gold and coal be found in every country on the planet? (Think about the rock cycle & plate tectonics…)

Use the map below to identify where people grow wheat for food and cotton for clothes

Why can’t wheat and cotton be easily grown everywhere?