Realms
Eight rooms. Eight ways in.
10 labs
Planet
Rotation, revolution, seasons, and the Moon. The clockwork that makes day, night, and the calendar.
8 labs
Interior & Plates
Crust to inner core, then the plates that carry continents. Boundaries write mountains, trenches, and faults.
9 labs
Atmosphere
Layers, insolation, wind, cells, fronts, and storms. The film of air that writes weather.
9 labs
Water & Carbon
The water cycle as a closed budget. Reservoirs, transfers, and a basin you can drain.
11 labs
Landforms
Rivers from source to mouth, then coasts, ice, karst, and folds. Landforms you can orbit.
6 labs
Soils & Rocks
Rock cycle, soil profile, texture triangle, weathering, and erosion. The skin of the land, in 3D.
5 labs
Hazards
Quakes, volcanoes, tsunami, tropical cyclones. Sudden Earth, drawn as a process.
4 labs
Skills
Contours, graticule, projections, and grid references. The classroom skill behind the map paper.
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Why seasons happen
In December, London is dark by late afternoon while Sydney is in high summer. The Earth is not closer to the Sun in July.
Earth’s interior
A cut apple is a bad model of Earth: the ‘skin’ would be thinner than the apple’s, and the outer core is liquid metal.
Contours ↔ 3D terrain
A GCSE map question is a hill wearing a disguise. The spur and the valley are the same lines, bending opposite ways.
River long profile
A Lake District beck in spate and the Mississippi in flood are the same machine at different stations: steep and narrow, then lazy and wide.
Case studies
35 places. UK, US, East Asia.
UK · East Yorkshire
Holderness coast
Soft glacial till, a north-to-south longshore system, and villages that have already gone into the North Sea.
US · Lower Mississippi
Mississippi and delta
A continental drain with levées, cut-offs, and a bird-foot delta fighting subsidence and a rising Gulf.
East Asia · Hong Kong Island · New Territories
Hong Kong slopes
Weathered granite, steep catchments, a city on the toe. Holderness is till at the sea; Hong Kong is saprolite on a slope.
East Asia · Huangpu · Yangtze delta
Shanghai, Meiyu and the Huangpu
A drowned river on a delta. Meiyu, tide, and a flood wall. The Mississippi is a continental drain; the Huangpu is a tidal megacity creek.
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