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Transport Modes Comparison

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🚗 Part 1: Choosing the Right Transport

Word Bank: speed, cost, environment, safety, distance, capacity, flexibility

1. What are the most important things to think about when choosing transport? Tick THREE boxes.

How fast it goes

How much it costs

What colour it is

How safe it is

Impact on the environment

How loud it is

2. Which transport would be BEST for moving fresh fish from Scotland to London? Choose ONE.

Walking

Aeroplane

Ship

Bicycle

3. A family wants to go on holiday to Spain. Which transport would be cheapest for 4 people? Choose ONE.

Four separate aeroplanes

Car and ferry

Four separate trains

Helicopter

✏️ Part 2: Advantages and Disadvantages

Instructions: Complete the table below. Write at least ONE advantage and ONE disadvantage for each transport type.

Help Box: fast, slow, expensive, cheap, polluting, clean, flexible, limited, safe, dangerous

4. Road Transport (cars, buses, lorries)

Advantage: ________________________________________________

Disadvantage: _____________________________________________

5. Rail Transport (trains)

Advantage: ________________________________________________

Disadvantage: _____________________________________________

6. Air Transport (aeroplanes)

Advantage: ________________________________________________

Disadvantage: _____________________________________________

7. Water Transport (ships, boats)

Advantage: ________________________________________________

Disadvantage: _____________________________________________

8. Walking and Cycling

Advantage: ________________________________________________

Disadvantage: _____________________________________________

🌍 Part 3: Transport Decisions

9. Explain why someone might choose to walk to school instead of taking the bus.

10. A company needs to transport 1000 tonnes of coal from Wales to Germany. Which transport would you recommend and why?

11. Extension: Choose ONE transport mode. Explain how it could be made more environmentally friendly.

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