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Unit Summary

This unit explores what it is like to live in a contrasting locality by studying Jamaica and Tanzania. Pupils investigate location, climate, and key physical and human features, and compare each place with their own through maps, images and geographical vocabulary.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to name some crops grown in Jamaica and the UK and can think of questions you could ask a farmer in Jamaica.

Key Notes

• Different crops are suited to different climates.
• Questions are a useful way to learn more about farming in Jamaica.
• We are connected to different countries by the food we eat.
• Bananas, sugar, yams, peppers, tomatoes and peas all grow in Jamaica.

Vocabulary To Learn

• crops: A crop is a plant that is grown in large quantities.
• climate: Climate is an average of weather conditions (e.g. rain, sun, wind) in a place taken over a long period of time (usually 30 years or more).
• Equator: The Equator is an imaginary line encircling Earth at 0° latitude and is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.
• plantation: A plantation is an area of land on which one kind of crop is grown, e.g. trees for wood.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• We grow all the food we eat in the UK.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Going on holiday to Jamaica Study Guide
• Jamaica's location and climate Study Guide
• Key physical and human features of Jamaica Study Guide
• Similarities and differences: Kingston in Jamaica Study Guide
• The Caribbean location and UK connections Study Guide