February 10, 2019

Grade 7

Students will be bringing home a unit 1 Geography test, this week. Please look it over, sign it and return it to school.  This week we will begin Chapter 2 and look at the environment and its interactions. We will discuss 5 characteristics of natural environments and the animals that are able to live in those special environments. We will look at the 1992 stoppage of cod fishing in Newfoundland and what happened to this industry; as well as, how animals, plants, and natural phenomenons interact with each other in the environment.


Grade 8

Students will be bringing home a unit 1 Geography test this week. Please look it over, sign it and return it to school. This week we will begin Chapter 2 and look at various demographic constants in the world. We will discuss the distribution and density of populations of various countries in the world and how this information is useful. We will also look at the factors that influence a population (history, migration, technology, politics and environment); as well as, the historical revolutions that caused a large fluctuation in population, in the world.