GEOGRAPHY TERTIARY SECTOR VOCABULARY

Loan: The act of lending (to give money on condition that it is returned and that interest is paid for its temporary use).

Fishmonger: A dealer in fish.

Wealth: A great deal of money, property, or possessions.

Trade balance: The difference between exports and imports.

Otherwise: Under other circumstances.

Trading blocs: Association of countries to encourage international trade between their members.

GEOGRAPHY SECONDARY SECTOR VOCABULARY

Fracking: High-pressure extraction of oil, gas.

Shafts: Tunnels were the miners search the minerals.

Pyme: Small or medium-sized company with limited number or employees and limited profits.

Scar: A mark left by a healed wound.

Engine: A machine for converting heat energy into mechanical energy or power in order to produce force and motion.

Guild: Group of people with the same work that agree some conditions for work and get the same profit.

Strike: Period of time where workers agree to stop working to get better workings conditions.

3rd trimester project

GEOGRAPHY EXERCISE INDUSTRIAL

PHOSPHATE

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SALT

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GEOGRPAHY EXERCISE CONSTRUCTION

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MARBLE

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GEOGRAPHY EXERCISE METALLIC

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ALUMINIUM

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GEGORAPHY VOCABULARY PRIMARY SECTOR

Factors of production: Those elements that facilitate the development of agricultural activities.

Sharecropping: a farmer who does not own the land he or she works on but who pays as rent a share of the crop.

Ploughs: a large tool used in farming for cutting, lifting, turning over, and breaking up soil.

Sorghum: a grass grown for food, bearing broad leaves and a tall stem having grain in a dense cluster.

Millet: a cereal grass, extensively cultivated in the East and in southern Europe for its small seed, or grain, used as food for humans and fowls, but in the U.S. grown chiefly for fodder.

Barley: a widely distributed cereal plant, of the grass family, having awned flowers that grow in tightly bunched spikes, with three small additional spikes at each node.

Oats: a cereal grass grown for its grain.

Chickpeas: a widely cultivated plant of the legume family, having pods that contain pealike seeds.

Soybeans: a bushy plant of the legume family, grown chiefly as feed for horses and cattle.

Linen: fabric woven from flax yarns.

Yam: the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines, cultivated for food in warm regions.

Birch: a tree having a smooth, peeling outer bark and close-grained wood.

Beech: a tree having a smooth gray bark and small, triangular nuts.

Maple: any of numerous trees or shrubs grown for ornament, for timber, or for sap.

Mahogany: a tropical American tree giving hard, reddish brown wood.

Hake: a codlike saltwater fish.

Whiting: pure-white chalk powder used esp. in making putty and whitewash.

Cod: a fish found in cool, N Atlantic waters, caught for food

Turbot: a European flatfish, having a diamond-shaped body: valued as a food fish.

Sea bass: any of various American coastal percoid having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two

Shrimp: a small, long-tailed, ten-footed, edible shellfish found chiefly in salt water

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY ECONOMY

Economic goods: Products and services generated by economic activity.

Entrepreneur:People who combine labor, land and capital resources to start businesses.

Hire: To employ (someone) for wages

Income: Payment for goods or for services, or from rents or investments

Multinational: Company that act outside of their country of origin and are present in many other countries.

Profit: Benefit

Services: Activities carried out by humans to benefit society (education, healthcare…).

Well-being: Health, happiness

Widespread: Spread over a wide area

DESCRIBING AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE

First at all an agricultural system is a land that has, over time, been transformed by the farming activities of human beings in order to grow crops and obtain products from nature. The plot that you can see in the image is very large, with a regular shape and without any boundaries. As you can see, the crops grow at the same time and they are separated by the same gap more or less. These open fields are more commonly found in Central Europe. This landscape is a monoculture system because the farmers grow a single type of crop. About the form of irrigation, it is an irrigated system because the crops need water from groundwater, reservoirs or rives which the farmers brought using canals and irrigation ditches. The other farming system that appears in the photo is the form of growing crops which can be intensive or extensive. In this case it is extensive agriculture because this type happens in sparsely areas and the example of the picture is in a sparsely space. Other characteristic that says it is extensive is because the needs of machinery to grow. Also, because it is a big piece of land.

GEOGRAPHY EXERCISES

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1.Where in the world is Africa?
   Africa is located in the South of Europe and in the Southwest of Asia.
2.How many times is Africa larger than The United States?
   Africa is three times larger than The United States.
3.How is the savanna defined in the video?
   The savanna is defined like a grassy plain which covers the half of Africa that is characterized by        scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.
4.Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?
   The animals that can be found in the savanna biome are elephants and giraffes.
5.Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?
   The chaparral biome is located at northern coast of Africa, along the Mediterranean and also in            south of Africa.
6.Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?
   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 .....
   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 Good Hope and 4 600 miles from Cape Verde all the way over to Somalia.

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 fauna and vegetation 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 barrier to cross.

4. It is not the rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the biodiversity 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 .But that doesn’t mean you can’t find any mountain ranges in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas mountains in northwestern Africa.

8. Africa also has some interesting mountains like Kilimanjaro mountain, the highest peak 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 UNIT 3

Birth rate: the ratio of live births in a specified area, group, etc, to the population of that area, etc, usually expressed per 1000 population per year.
Death rate: the number of deaths per unit, usually 1000, of population in a given place and time.
Natural increase: How much a country is growing.
Infant mortility rate: The death rate of infants during the first year of life.
Life expectancy:The number of years that an individual is expected to live
Birth control: Voluntary prevention of conception by a man or a woman
Family planning: The planning of when to have children.
Fertility rate: The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime.
Ageing population: When the median age of a country or region increases.

VALLADOLID.

The 2nd of November, we went to Valladlid to see a concert, a castle and to see many wine. The teacher who take with us were Teresa, Luis and Gema. We stayed in Valladolid for eleven hours. Now I am going to tell you the whole trip for the beggining to the ending.
We had to stayed at the school early, at 8:30. We took the bus to Valladolid, that is 110 km away from Salamanca. When we arrived in Valladolid, we had a short free time in the city. I was with Christian, Miguel, Egoitz, Antonio, Adrian and Rodero and we were looking shoes at the Corte Ingles. Then the teachers called us to go to the theater, that is call Miguel Delibes. We saw Vox Balaenae with other schools, but we can't have a good time because the other school was talking all the act. I didn't like so much the act because I didn't understand the modern music, but I have to say that the musicians were very good and the play beautiful music.After the act, we had free time to had lunch. I stayed near the Valladolid football stadium, the Jose Zorrilla. I had lunch with Christian, Antonio, Rodero and Adrian at the top of a skate pitch. I ate a huge sandwich with a Coke. Then  I went to a supermarket an I bought chocolate and chewing gum. Then we toook the bus to go to Peñafiel, a village of Valladolid. In the village, there is an amazing castle. At the top of the castle you can see all the village and also many kilometres away. Then we went to a wine exhibition. We learnt a lot about wine and its process. After that we took the bus and we went to Salamanca. I liked so much the trip an I hhpe that we can do more.

 Peñafiel.

Vox Balaenae.

GEOGRAPHY!!!!

How to calculate population's rates.

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL

Stage 1. Here both birth rates and death rates fluctuates at a high level (about 35 per 1000) giving a small population growth.

Stage 2. Birth rates remain high, but death rates fall rapidly to about 20 per 1000 people giving a rapid population growth.

Stage 3. Birth rates fall rapidly, to perhaps 20 per 1000 people, while death rates continue to fall slightly (15 per 1000 people) to give a slowly increasing population.

Stage 4. Both birth rates and death rates remain low, fluctuating slightly to give a steady population.


Nowadays the MEDCs (the more economically developed countries) have reached stage 4 (UK, USA, and Spain). Meanwhile the more developed LEDCs have reached the 3 stage (India, Mexico, Brazil, and the least developed remain al 2 stage (Chad, Nigeria, Kenya). It has been notice that since the 1990s several MEDCs appear to be entering in a new and fifth stage. This stage is where the birth rate is beginning to fall below the death rate. It is predicted that, if this trend continue, countries entering this stage will eventually see a natural decrease in their total population.

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

In the unit that we are studying in geography, there is new vocabulary about population that we have to learn for the exam. The vocabulary is:

• birth rate
• death rate
• natural increase
• infant mortality rate
• life expectancy
• birth control
• dependent population
• dependency ratio
• family planning
• population piramids/age-gender structures
• replacement rate
• fertility rate
• ageing population.
• population distribution and population density
• a more economically developed country (MEDC) and less economically developed country (LEDC)
• overpopulation and under population.

DESCRIBING A LANDSCAPE

This landscape is located on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. Australia is situated into the hot zone and also it's into the temperate zone at the south. In the hot zone, in  the northen part of the country, the temperatures are very high all year, but if we settle on the expecific climate, it is tropical climate. The characteristics of this climate are the high temperatures all year. There are two seasons, the rainy season (summer) and the dry season (winter). The savannas are common in tropical zones. It's a huge plain with tall grass. Its coulour varies. It is green in the rainy season, and yellow in the dry season.There are also scatterd shrubs.
In the Daintree rainforest are many types of fauna and flora. Crocodiles, kangaroos, butterflies, Green tree frog, lizards, jabirus, Boyd's Rainforest Dragons, Spectacled Flying Fox are different animals of this rainforest. About plants, there are cauliflory, daintree fan palm, Native Hibiscus, Banana tree.

The Daintree Rainforest.

  

     Daintree fan palm.                                                                                                    Native Hibiscus.

   Stinging tree plant.                                                                                                      Cauliflory.

Boyd's Rainforest Dragons.                                                                                            Green tree frog.

                                                                                       
               

  Spectacled Flying Fox                                                                                                                  Jabiru.