🌏 Part 1: Geography Vocabulary Matching

1. Match each geography term with its correct definition by drawing a line between them:

Geography

Environment

Population

Landscape

Natural Resources

The number of people living in an area

Materials from nature that people use (like water, trees, minerals)

The study of places, people, and environments on Earth

The natural and human-made surroundings where we live

The visible features of an area of land

2. Which branch of geography studies weather and landforms?

Physical Geography

Human Geography

Environmental Geography

3. Which of these are examples of human geography? (Tick all that apply)

Cities and towns

Mountains and rivers

Different cultures

Weather patterns

🗺️ Part 2: Geography in Your Local Area

4. Fill in the blanks using words from the word bank:

Word Bank: rural, environment, settlement, region, climate

Pahiatua is a __________ town in the Tararua __________ of New Zealand. The local __________ includes farms, hills, and forests. Our town is a small __________ where people live and work. The __________ here is temperate with mild winters and warm summers.

5. Describe one natural resource found around Pahiatua and explain how people use it:

6. What makes Pahiatua's landscape different from Auckland's landscape? Write two differences:

1. _________________________________________________

2. _________________________________________________