What is the difference between a human feature and a physical feature?

A physical feature is part of the natural world: a hill, a river, a beach. A human feature was built or made by people: a harbour, a farm, a factory. The labels here are coloured to match, and there is a sorting tool that asks the class to split them.

What is the difference between a village, a town and a city?

Size, mostly. A village is a few houses together, a town is bigger with more shops and services, and a city is bigger again. In England a city is usually one that has been given the title, which is why some quite small places are cities.

Is a harbour the same as a port?

No, and it is worth asking a class. A harbour is sheltered water where boats are safe, usually behind walls somebody built. A port is where ships load and unload, with quays and cranes. A port is often inside a harbour, but a small fishing harbour is not a port.

Which words does it not cover?

Coast, ocean, soil, vegetation, season, weather, town, house, office and shop. Coast is the name of the first board. Ocean is the sea one scale up, which the world map names. The rest are either not features of a place or too close to another word on the board to be a separate thing to tap.

Geography Vocabulary

Geography · Year 1–Year 4

Two landscapes, and the fourteen words for what is in them.

About the geography words

Two landscapes with the words a KS1 geography unit asks for. The coast has the sea, a cliff, the beach, a hill, a harbour, a port and a village; inland has a mountain, a valley, a river, a forest, a farm, a city and a factory. Tap a feature to name it and the board says what makes it that rather than the one beside it.

Every word is off the statutory vocabulary lists, and the ones a picture cannot separate are deliberately missing. Coast is where the land meets the sea, so its target would sit on the beach's and the sea's: it is the board's own name instead. Soil and vegetation are what everything else is standing on and in. Season and weather are not features of a place, and there is a seasons tool.

The harbour and the port are on the same board on purpose. A class asked which is which has a real question in front of them and the answer is in the picture: the harbour is the walls somebody built to keep the waves out, and the port is the quay and the crane where ships load.

Next carries on from the coast into the inland board, because that is one lesson rather than two, and the new board arrives with nothing named because it is a new question. The labels say nothing about which features are natural and which were built: that is the question the sorting tool asks, and a colour code here would answer it for them.

How to use it on your whiteboard

1Tap a feature to name it and see what it is.
2Tap Next to work round the board in order, and on into the second one.
3Tap Show all to put every label up at once, for reading rather than asking.
4Tap Hide to take them off and ask the class again.

Questions

What is the difference between a human feature and a physical feature?: A physical feature is part of the natural world: a hill, a river, a beach. A human feature was built or made by people: a harbour, a farm, a factory. The labels here are coloured to match, and there is a sorting tool that asks the class to split them.
What is the difference between a village, a town and a city?: Size, mostly. A village is a few houses together, a town is bigger with more shops and services, and a city is bigger again. In England a city is usually one that has been given the title, which is why some quite small places are cities.
Is a harbour the same as a port?: No, and it is worth asking a class. A harbour is sheltered water where boats are safe, usually behind walls somebody built. A port is where ships load and unload, with quays and cranes. A port is often inside a harbour, but a small fishing harbour is not a port.
Which words does it not cover?: Coast, ocean, soil, vegetation, season, weather, town, house, office and shop. Coast is the name of the first board. Ocean is the sea one scale up, which the world map names. The rest are either not features of a place or too close to another word on the board to be a separate thing to tap.