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Geography · Grade 8

Agriculture, Industry and Economic Networks

Learners compare farming systems from Dutch greenhouses to Australian cattle stations, explain why industries locate where they do and why old industrial regions such as Germany's Ruhr changed, and follow the container ships, ports and just-in-time supply chains that link factories across continents. Case studies such as the 2011 floods in Thailand show how a disruption in one place can ripple through global networks.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Agriculture, industry and networks check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Classify farming systems and explain their locations using physical and economic factors.
  • Explain the factors that influence where industries locate and how industrial regions change.
  • Describe how containerisation, ports and just-in-time production create global production networks.
  • Evaluate how changes and disruptions in economic networks affect different places.

Lessons

  1. Farming systems and where they are 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  2. Where industry locates 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  3. Containers, ports and global production networks 6 steps4 practiceabout 26 min
  4. When networks change: winners, losers and risks 6 steps3 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Agriculture, industry and networks check 10 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

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