Geography websites
Reading B1
Geography websites
A Geoview
This website has fantastic videos of animals in challenging locations, and information about how they manage to live there. There are also helpful tips on understanding geographical information, such as maps and diagrams of the Earth and its oceans. Users can also share information about useful links to follow.
B Geographical
This website has lots of maps, quizzes and advice, to check your knowledge of what you’ve studied – and remind you of anything you’ve forgotten! There’s a brilliant section about popular places in many different countries, which attract large numbers of visitors, with background historical details about the reasons these places are now so well known.
C Geography.com
This website has interesting maps and details about places that have become famous tourist destinations in different countries, and also some famous geographical features around the world, such as the biggest mountains and rivers. There are also online tips available on how to research information for projects.
D Goworld
How do people live in places with very high or low temperatures in different seasons? Find out how people adapt to the climate they live in, how it affects their lives and what they do to stay warm or keep cool, as necessary. You can also upload your own stories about life in extreme temperatures in your country.
E Planet Zoom
Not sure how to understand the information included on map? Here’s a step-by-step guide to using them! The site also has games and puzzles about all the continents, including Africa, Asia and Europe, and important details about them, such as their huge size, and their mountain ranges, rivers and climate.
F Worldwide
This website has lots of beautiful photos, maps and film clips to help you learn more about some of the highest – and coldest – peaks on the planet. You’ll find plenty of amazing facts about them, together with details of the wildlife that makes its home in the surrounding areas.
G GeoInfo
Which countries in the world have the coldest winters, the highest mountains or the most unusual animals? Check your knowledge with some fantastic geography puzzles and games. And the photos on this site also show people’s everyday lives in very different climate conditions.
H Geowatch
What’s underneath the ground we walk on? You’ll find maps and diagrams here to tell you – including what you’d see inside the planet if you cut it in half! There’s information, too, about parts of the world that aren’t land, but actually oceans and seas, and help on researching and presenting project information.