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Geography for Secondary Schools
Student’s Book Form One
Chapter Major features of

Four the Earth’s surface

Introduction
Features seen on the Earth’s surfaceREADING ONLY
People live on the earth’s surface, which hosts a variety of features and serves as the
primary habitat for all forms of life. The existence of land, water, and vegetation plays
a central role in sustaining human and other living organisms on our planet. In this
chapter, you will learn about major features of the earth’s surface such as continents
and their features. You will also learn the major water bodies such as oceans and seas,

major features of the ocean floor, as well as large inland water bodies such as rivers
and lakes. Moreover, you will learn about vegetation zones on the earth’s surface and
their importance to human life. The competencies developed will enable you to use and
manage resources sustainably in different places.

Think
FOR ONLINE

Earth's surface

Activity 4.1 earth’s surface. The landmasses comprise of
continents and vegetation. The water bodies
(a) Observe the appearance of your consist of oceans and seas, and large inland
school compound and the nearby water bodies such as rivers and lakes.
areas.
(b) Analyse the features that you have
observed and note them down. Continents and oceans of the world

Earth’s surface refers to the outermost layer Activity 4.2
of the Earth, including both the landmasses Explore information from library and
(continents and islands) and the water bodies other reliable online sources about the
(oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers). It is the part continents of the world, focusing on their
of the Earth that we interact with directly cultural diversity, climate, geographical
and where all terrestrial life exists. It is features, and significant historical events.
made up of continental landmasses, which
cover about 29% of the earth’s surface, and In the beginning the earth’s surface was a
water bodies, which cover about 71% of the single giant landmass called Pangaea that

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