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  • Game - Race Across the Continents

    Help this team of adventurers race their way across the continents by practicing your geography skills, learning about the natural world and honing your human geography knowledge.

Geography skills

The 7 continents

Geography of the UK

  • Exploring the UK's coasts

    Learn more about the processes that form the UK's coasts and discover how the coastline is changed by nature and people.

  • Discovering the UK's tallest mountains

    Learn about the different features of a mountain and discover where to find the tallest mountains in the UK.

  • Exploring the UK's longest rivers

    Discover where to find the longest rivers in the UK and explore the different ways that rivers provide people with transport, leisure and electricity.

  • Exploring the UK's wetlands

    Discover why wetlands are important for the environment and learn about the wildlife that lives in the UK's bogs, swamps and marshes.

  • Exploring the UK's lakes

    Discover how some lakes were created by glaciers and learn about the different plants and wildlife that can be found in the UK's lakes.

  • Exploring the UK's climate and weather

    Discover the difference between weather and climate and learn about the effects of extreme weather in the UK.

  • Exploring the UK's countryside

    Discover how tourism impacts rural areas and learn how the UK's countryside is used for farming, holiday destinations and nature.

  • Exploring the UK's cities

    Find out how some key UK cities have developed and discover the difference between cities and towns in the UK.

  • Exploring how people live in the UK

    Learn more about the different ways of living in the UK and explore island, rural, suburban and urban life.

  • Exploring how people work in the UK

    Learn about the types of jobs available in the UK and explore how the location of some people can affect the work they do.

  • Investigating transport in the UK

    Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using different types of transport and learn how transport has changed over time in the UK.

  • Investigating tourism in the UK

    Discover the advantages and disadvantages that tourism can bring to an area and explore the coasts, landscapes and cities that make the UK a popular tourist destination.

  • Exploring food and farming in the UK

    Learn about the difference between pastoral and arable farming and discover how location can affect the type of food that farmers produce.

  • Exploring the UK鈥檚 National Parks

    Discover how the UK's first National Parks were created and learn why these parts of the countryside are protected areas in the UK.

  • Investigating energy in the UK

    Discover which natural resources are fossil fuels and why some sources of energy are limited and others are renewable.

  • Exploring the UK鈥檚 environment

    Learn how the UK is reducing its carbon emissions and explore the impact of pollution on the environment, including on plants and animals.

People and places

The natural world

  • Explore weather and climate

    You might think that weather and climate are the same thing, but they are actually different.

  • Explore biomes

    Biomes are areas with a similar climate and landscape.

  • Explore mountains

    Mountains are very high areas of land.

  • Explore volcanoes

    A volcano is an opening in the Earth鈥檚 crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape.

  • Explore earthquakes

    Discover that earthquakes are caused when the Earth's crust pulls and pushes against itself.

  • Explore oceans

    Discover that oceans cover over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.

  • Explore rivers

    Find out how rivers always flow downhill because of gravity.

  • Explore the water cycle

    The water cycle works by using the energy of the Sun to exchange water from oceans and lakes to the atmosphere.

Human geography

  • Explore settlements

    Settlements are places where people live and sometimes work. There are many different types of settlement.

  • Explore trade

    Discover how buying and selling things is called trade.

  • Explore the economy

    Find out how economic activity looks at how prices rise and fall.

Sustainability

Fieldwork