Geography and English project

Bretonnianadvisor: Finisterre
Click here- Cape Finisterre video

Geography: Non-energy resources

Here is the link to see the non-energy resources that I have choose:

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwZWmaNvcCzveGlJQlhVV2pXTGs

Agricultural Landscape- Geography

This is the agricultural landscape that I have choosen. It is from Near Cognac, in France:

• It has got open fields, beacause there aren't any boundaries wich separe plots.
• It is a polyculture landscape, because there are two types of plots.
• I think it's type of farming is irrigated, because there aren't any irrigation systems.
• It is an extensive agriculture, because there is a lot of land.

Geography Glossary- The State

-State: territory, province.
-Inhabitants: person: resident.
-Boundaries: limit of land, property.
-Currency:money system.
-National anthem: official song of a country.
-Laws: rules, government laws.
-Taxes: a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or forspecific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.

-Population: inhabitants.
-Foreigners: a person from outside one's community.
-Citizens: member of a country.
-Freedom asociation: right to affiliate(libertad de afiliacion).
-Free spech: it is free to give your opinion (libertad de expresion).
-Rights: the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks.
-Fine: (multa)
-Politics: directing states or cities (políticas).
-Worldwide: spanning the world.
-Civil servants: government employee(funcionario).
-Country: political geographic area.

Kenya's project

-This project about Kenya was made by Elia Calvo, Paula Merino, and me: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwZWmaNvcCzvN2FNUDVLbjY4R2M

Geography-Africa video

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1.     Where in the world is Africa?

2.     How many times is Africa larger than The United States?

3.     How is the savanna defined in the video?

4.     Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?

5.     Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?

6.     Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?

7.     The main natural resources mentioned in the video are ....

1. Africa is located at the South of Europe and at the Southwest of Asia.

2. Africa is three times the size of The United States.

3. The savanna biome is defined in the video as a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa.It's characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.

4. The most common animals that can be found in the savanna biome are elephants and giraffes.

5. The chaparral biome is located at northern coast of Africa and along the Mediterranean coast and there is also in the south of Africa as well.

6. The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara desert, the Namib desert and the Kalahari desert.

7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are gold mines,rober trees and oil.

FIND THE MISSING WORDS

1. Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to

 the Cape of Good Hope and 4 600 miles from Cape

Verde all the way over to Senegal.

2. Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that

 climate zones , you can see the same average temperature and average precipitations what that means is that you also see very similar vegetation and fauna living in that region.

3. The most famous desert in Africa is, of course, the Sahara desert. Now, some parts of the Sahara desert are sandy, like you can see here. Other parts of the Sahara desert are rocky but in either case, the fact that it is very dry is going to make it a very difficult period to cross.

4. It is not the rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the environment diversity.There are many different fauna and vegetation. That can be found in the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so valuable not just in Africa but throughout the Earth.

5. The Nile is the most famous river in Africa, because is the largest  river in the world. But there is also the Congo river which is the second longest river in the world.

6. Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes like Lake Kivu,lake Malawi,lake Victoria and lake Tanganyika.

7. All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t find any mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas mountains in northwestern Africa.

8. Africa also has some interesting mountains like Kilimanjaro mountain , the highest mountain in Africa which seems to just rise on it own out of the ground.

9. The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is literally, being split apart. There are some tectonic plates that are located within or near Africa, that are, actually moving away from each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevations in Africa, but also lakes like Tanganyika that is among the deepest in the world.

Geography glossary- Population

-Birth rate: total number of live births per 1000 of a population in a year.

-Death rate: (mortality rate) measure of the number of deaths that take plas in a population over a year.

-Natural increase: number of births minus the number of deaths.

-Infant mortality rate: number of deaths of infants under one year divided with the number of deaths in a year, per 1000.

-Life expectancy: average years that one person may expect to live.

-Birth control: method or devise used to prevent pregnacy.

-Dependent population: part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the services they consume.

-Dependency ratio: age population ratio of thos tipically not in the labor force.

-Family planning:practise of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births.

-Population piramids/age-gender structures: diagrams that decipt the distribution of the population at a particular time and location.

-Replacement rate

-Fertility rate: number of children that would de born to a woman over a lifetime.

-Ageing population: in developed countries, the number of young people is smallest than the number of old people.

-Population distribution and population density

-A more economically developed country (MEDC) and less economically developed country (LEDC)

-Overpopulation and under population

School trip to Valladolid

Some days ago, we went to Valladolid, and Peñafiel. First, we went to Valladolid. When we arrived, we visited the centre of the city, and we had some free time.Then, we went to the "Miguel Delibes", a theatre in wich we saw a concert of contemporaean music. When we finished, we had lunch and we had a really great time. One hour later, we travelled to the Peñafiel´s castle. First, we went to a wine museum, and then, we visited the castle. In my oppinion, it was a really intestering excursion, and we had a great time!

Project about a landscape- Iceland

-Location:

This place is located in Iceland. It's a Nordic Island Country, located in the northwest of Europe, in the Atlantic sea. 

-Climate:

Glaciar Eyjafjallajökull

The climate is known as subpolar oceanic. It has got cool and brief summers,and soft winters, with temperatures that don't raise more than -3ºC. The warm North Atlantic Current ensures generally higher annual temperatures than in most places of similar latitude in the world.

-Vegetation:

Approximately three quarters of the island are barren of vegetation; plant life consists mainly of grassland, which is regularly grazed by livestock. The most common tree is the northern birch, which formed forests over much of Iceland, along with aspens,common junipers and other smaller trees.

Juniper

Northern birch

Aspens

-Fauna:

The animals of Iceland include the Icelandic sheep, cattle, chickens, goats, the sturdy Icelandic horse, and the Icelandic Sheepdog.Wild mammals include the Arctic fox, mink, mice, rats, rabbits and reindeer. Many species of fish live in the ocean waters surrounding Iceland.

Icelandic Sheepdog

Icelandic Sheep

Icelandic horse

Mink

Artic Fox

                  

Social science glossary-
Climate and bioegraphy (Europe and Spain)

-Europe maritime (oceanic) and mediterrean climate vocabulary

 Oak (roble)

           Shrubs/bush (arbustos)               

              

        Beeches (haya)

Clear forest (bosque hueco)

     

  Cork oak (alcornoque)

  Deer (gamo/ciervo pequeño)

Thikets (matorral)

Water birds (aves acuáticas)

Holm oak (encina)

Lynx (lince)

Stork (cigueña)

Vulture (buitre)

Meadow (prado)

Social science glossary-
Land and coastal relief II

-Basin= area of land containing a river or a lake that is lower than the sourronded area (depresión)
-Peninsula= a piece of land sourronded by water in all sides except one
-Island= piece of land completly sourronded by water
-Archipelago= group of islands
-Livestock= farm animals (ganago, ganadería)
-Cattle= cows
-Ridge= mountain range
-Buttes= hill or mound (cerro)
-Mesas= plateau
-Greek= stream
-Flood plain
-Brine= water that you can't drink (no potable)

Ridge

Butte

Cattle

Social Science Glossary-
Land and coast relief I

-Ravine= steep gorge (barranco)
-Steep= sharply sloped (empinado)
-Slope= angle of mountain (ladera)
-Gorge= ravine (barranco/garganta)
-Plateau= an elevated, comparatively level expanse of land (meseta)
-Sligthly= to a small degree (ligeramente)
-Plains= flat land (llanura)
-Debris= remains (sedimentos)
-Estuary= where a river meets the sea (estuario)
-Gulf= body of water (golfo)
-Cape= a point or head of land projecting into a body of water
-Cliff= steep rock face (acantilado)

Gorge

Ravine

Plains

Plateau

Social Science Glossary-First week                         
-Grassland: grassy land  (pradera)
-Coast: land by the sea 
-Natural resources                                                       
-Wild pig: animal similiar to a pig (jabalí)
-Grasshoper: insect (saltamontes)
-Fire insurance                                                                   
-Rainfall: measure of rain (precipitación)
-Streams: small river (riachuelo)
-Temperate: mild weather (templado)      
-Dam:water barrier (presa)
-Due to: debido a
-Made up: hacer algo
-Contours: outline of a shape (contorno)
-Mountain range:series of mountains (cordillera)
-Hill
-Oasis: water in desert
-Archipelago: group of islands

-Flood: water (riada, inundación) 
-Earthquake: seismic tremor (terremoto)
-Volcano                                
                                                                                        

Dam

Grasshoper