Homeworks 1 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Departamento de Geografía e Historia

José Carlos Núñez Vidal

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U N I TU N I T 1 .1 . T H E P L A C E W E L I V E I NT H E P L A C E W E L I V E I N ..

KEYS FOR THE EXAM (you have to know…): - Define:

• Plate tectonics (Placa Tectónica): • Relief (Relieve): • Depressions or basins (Depresión

o cuenca): • Ocean Currents (corriente

marina): • Aquifers (Acuífero): • Flow (Caudal): • Fluvial regime (Régimen fluvial): • Low Water (Estiaje):

• Atmosphere: • Temperature: • Rainfalls (Precipitaciones): • Wind: • Pressure: • Isobars (isobaras): • Weather front (Frente

atmosférico):

• Climograma:

- Explain the differences between (or just define): • Alpine Mountain and old Mountain (macizo antiguo): • Plain (llanura) and Plateau (Meseta): • Weather and climate: • Antyciclones and Storm (Borrasca):

- Resume in a diagram how the natural environment affects society. - Point in a picture the structure of Earth: Cortex (Corteza), Mantex

(Manto) and core (Núcleo). - Explain, with his words, the theory of plate tectonics. - Point in a picture the kinds of relief (Mountains…). - Point in a map the oceans and continents. - Value how the relief affects society.

- Resume, in a draw, the problems about water. - Resume in a table the characteristics of European and Spanish rivers. - Point in a map European, Spanish and global reliefs and rivers.

- Resume in a diagram the agents that affect temperatures. - Point, in an isobars map, the anticyclones and storms. - Know the weather looking at an isobars map. - Resume and compare in a table the most important climates. - Define, explain and compare the landscapes in each climate. - Know the kind of landscape in an image. - Built a climograma and know which kind of climate is.



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SOCIETY?

1. Fill in your notebook the diagram below:

2. Paste in your notebook the map below and fill it with the name of

the continents and oceans.



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ACTIVITIES: THE RELIEF.

1. Define in your notebook and with your own words: a) Relief: b) Plate Tectonic:

2. Write the name of each plate tectonic in the map below: [Search it in an atlas, internet, textbook…]

3. Fill in your notebook the diagram below and point in the picture each

kind of relief.



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ACTIVITIES: THE RELIEFS IN THE WORLD.

1. Answer the next questions. [First, read the resume] a) How has the relief come up in the Earth? Can the relief change yet? b) What kind of relief helps the life of the people? Why? c) Can poor countries paid the facilities that need in order to save the

barriers relief? What will be the consequences?

2. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the mas below, fill them and point the reliefs of the table. European Map

Montes Escandinavos Montes Urales Gran Llanura Europea Alpes Cárpatos Balcanes Cáucaso Monte Elbrus

Spanish Map

Duero Valley South Plateau Sistema Central Macizo Galaico Cordillera Cantábrica Sistema Ibérico Sierra Morena Pirineos Cordillera Costero Catalana Cordillera Penibética Cordillera subbética Valle del Ebro Valle del Guadalquivir

World Map

Montañas Rocosas Cordillera de los Andes Cuenca del Missisipi Montes Apalaches Cuenca del Amazonas Meseta de Siberia Cordillera del Himalaya Monte Everest Cordillera del Atlas Sahara Kalahari Kilimanjaro



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ACTIVITIES: THE WATER. [We will do it in class, as extension activities]

1. Read the page 3 of the resume and built a diagram titled: Why is water a problem? [The graphic below can help you]

2. Remind the water cycle and try to complete the different stages in the box.



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ACTIVITIES: THE RIVERS OF THE WORLD.

1. Define: a) Ocean Currents: b) Aquifers: c) Flow (Caudal): d) Fluvial regime (Régimen fluvial): e) Low Water (Estiaje):

2. Complete the table below in your notebook. Are they Short

or long? Why? Are they mighty? Why?

Are they regular? Why?

The most important are…

Rivers of Atlantic Ocean

Rivers of Mediterranean Sea

Rivers of Cantabrian Sea

Rivers of Black and Caspian Seas

3. Paste in your Notebook (or Draw) the maps below and complete them with rivers, seas and lakes of the table up and colour them according to the map legend. [Help yourself with textbook]



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ACTIVITIES: WEATHER AND CLIMATE

1. Explain the differences between: a) Weather and Climate: b) Anticyclone and Storm:

2. Define: a) Atmosphere: b) Temperature: c) Weather Front:

d) Pressure: e) Isobars: f) Wind:

3. Complete, in your notebook, the diagram below [Read before the page 4 of resume]

4. Look at the Isobars map and answer in your notebook:

a) What number is Anticyclone of the Azores, Iceland Depression and

Polar front? b) Will it be sunny, cloudy or rainy? ¿Will it be windy? Why?



Página10 WORKS ABOUT HOT CLIMATES AND LANDSCAPES

1. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below and complete it according to the map legend. [Help yourself with the textbook]

2. Answer the questions about the climograma: [Help yourself with textbook]

a) What is a climograma? b) Do these climogramas belong to North or South Hemisphere?

3. Complete, in your notebook, the table below: [Page 5 of the resume] Hot Climates

Kind of climate Where is it? Temperatures Rains Landscapes

Equatorial Climate Tropical Climate Desert climate



Página11 WORKS ABOUT WARM CLIMATES AND LANDSCAPES.

1. Complete the climogramas in your notebook and answer the questions. [Is better you draw the graphic]

a) What is a climograma? b) Do these climogramas belong to North or South Hemisphere? c) At what kind of climate belongs each of them?

2. Complete, in your notebook, the table below: [Page 5 of the resume] Warm Climates

Kind of climate Where is it? Temperatures Rains Landscapes Oceanic Climate

Mediterranean Climate

Continental climate

3. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below and complete it according to the map legend. [Help yourself with the textbook]



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Página13 WORKS ABOUT COLD CLIMATES AND LANDSCAPES.

1. Answer the questions about the climogramas. [One of them is built yet, the other have to be built for you]

a) What is a climograma? b) Do these climogramas belong to North or South Hemisphere? c) At what kind of climate belongs each of them?

2. Complete, in your notebook, the table below: [Page 5 of the resume] Cold Climates

Kind of climate Where is it? Temperatures Rains Landscapes Polar Climate Mountain Climate 3. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below and complete it

according to the map legend. [Help yourself with the textbook]



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REVIEW ACTIVITIES.

1. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below. a) Complete it according to the map legend. b) Write in each circle the numbers that fit.

2. Build, in your Notebook, the next climogramas.



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EXTENSION ACTIVITIES.

1. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below and write in each circle the number of the sea that fit.

2. Paste in your notebook (or draw) the map below and write in each

circle the number of the lake that fit.

3. Build, in your Notebook, the climogramas of the exercise 4th in the

page 35 of the textbook.



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4. Build, in your Notebook, the next climogramas.

5. What kind of landscape is each picture? Why?

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