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1.      Kenya is a country on the continent of Africa. It is bigger than the UK but has half as many people. The capital city is called Nairobi and the two official languages are English and Swahili. The currency is the shilling.

 

2.      Compared to Britain people in Kenya live shorter lives, are poor, have more children, are less likely to be able to read and eat less.

 

3.      Coffee, tea, sugar, flowers, fruit and vegetables are grown in Kenya to sell to other countries. Many tourists go to Kenya to go on safari, lie on the beach, to bird watch or to walk or climb.

 

4.      The equator passes through Kenya. The Tana is the biggest river and Victoria is the biggest lake. The Great Rift Valley splits Kenya in two and contains many lakes and sleeping volcanoes. Mount Kenya is the highest mountain.

 

5.      Parts of Nairobi are very modern. They contain the shops, offices and hotels you would expect to find in any city.

 

6.      Parts of Nairobi are very poor. People live in shacks or slums, there is no electricity, water supply or sewage system, and there are no proper roads. Houses are made from anything people can find such as mud, corrugated iron or packing cases.

 

7.      The Maasai are a tribe of people who live in Kenya. They keep herds of cattle and move from place to place in search of grass. They move their huts with them.

 

8.      Maasai use their cattle for milk and blood to drink. The Maasai do not grow any crops. The Maasai wear traditional dress and both men and women wear colourful jewellery.

 

9.      The Kikuyu are the largest tribe in Kenya. A small farm or Shamba surrounds their houses. The Kikuyu grow crops and keep few animals. They do not move from place to place.

 

10.Kikuyu people practice subsistence farming. That means that they mainly grow food for     themselves and their families to eat. Sometimes they grow a cash crop such as coffee to sell.

 

1.      The water cycle is made up of many different processes:

·        Evaporation is when water changes from a liquid to invisible water vapour.

·        Condensation is when the water vapour turns back into tiny droplets that make up clouds.

·        Transpiration is how water from plants changes into water vapour.

·        Precipitation is water falling to earth in any form such as rain, snow, sleet or hail.

2.      Water is evaporated from the seas and oceans. The air rises and cools. The water vapour in it condenses into clouds. Eventually precipitation (usually rain in Britain) falls from the clouds to the land. Some of this water gets evaporated straight back up again. Some makes its way into streams then rivers and eventually back to the sea.

 

3.      Water that we use in our houses can come from rivers, lakes, springs, wells or reservoirs.

 

4.      Water has to go through a number of stages before it is clean enough to drink.

 

5.      We use a lot of water in our homes in washing machines, dishwashers, watering the garden and in having a shower or bath. We should try to cut down on the amount of water we use.

 

 

1.      The word environment means our surroundings and includes both natural and man-made things.

 

2.      How is our local environment different to that of Conkers?

 

3.      Global Warming is a raising of the worlds temperature due to the burning of fossil fuels.

 

4.      We can reduce our Carbon footprint by switching off lights, sharing lifts and having a shower and not a bath.

 

5.      Windfarms are a renewable source of energy.

 

6.      The environment can be improved through careful planning. But improvements don’t always please everyone. The building of a supermarket or a by-pass might upset as many people as it pleases.

 

7.      The environment needs to be looked after. Many organisations do this such as the National Trust, The WorldWide Fund for Nature (WWF) and The RSPB (The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds).