ECOLOGICAL LIST

-Turn off the lights when you don't need them.
-Close the tap when you don't use it.
-Use the bus instead of using a car.
-Walk instead of using a vehicle.
-Recycle al the things you can.
-Buy reusable bags instead of using a lot of plastic bags that you only can use them one time.
-Use cars that spend very little of fuel.
-Use electric cars.
-Use electricity produced by solar panels.

GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!

UNIT TWO

-Temperature: the degree of hotness of a body, substance, or medium; a physical property related to the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules of a substance.
-Savannah: open grasslands, usually with scattered bushes or trees, characteristic of much of tropical Africa.
-Oases: a fertile patch in a desert occurring where the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface.
-Taiga: the coniferous forests extending across much of subarctic North America and Eurasia, bordered by tundra to the north and steppe to the south.
-Precipitation: rain, snow, sleet, dew, etc, formed by condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
-Tundra: a vast treeless zone lying between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil.
-Settlement: the establishment of a new region; colonization.
-Jungle: an equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable.
-Livestock: cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pets, esp on a farm or ranch.
-Desert: a region that is devoid or almost devoid of vegetation, esp because of low rainfall.
-Steppe: an extensive grassy plain usually without trees.
-Holm oak: an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree.
-Reciduous forest: (of trees and shrubs) shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves.
-Evergreen: (of certain trees and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year; continually shedding and replacing leaves.
-Forest: a large wooded area having a thick growth of trees and plants.
-Meadows: an area of grassland, often used for hay or for grazing of animals.
-Drought: a prolonged period of scanty rainfall.
-Sandstorm: a strong wind that whips up clouds of sand.
-Flood: the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water.
-Acid rain: rain that contains a high concentration of pollutants, chiefly sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil.
-Tsunami: a large, often destructive, sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence, or volcanic eruption. Sometimes incorrectly called a tidal wave.
-Hurricane: a severe, often destructive storm.

This is my presentation about my ecological habits:

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SLOGAN: "Recycling in the present, saving the future".

GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!

UNIT ONE

-Inlet: A thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea. Inlets created by glaciation are called fjords and are usually found on montainous coastlines.
-Headland: A small area of land that projects out into the sea.

-Peninsula: A large scale headland surrounded by water on three sides. A peninsula can be connected to the land by a thin stretch of land called isthmus.
-Island: A piece of land completely surrounded by water.
-Gulf: An area of sea surrounded by land on three sides. A bay is similar but smaller.
-Oceanic ridge: An underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes.
-Oceanic trench: A long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of meters deep.
-Abyssal plain: A flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths of between 3000 and 7000 meters.
-Continental shelf: The undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually to depths of around 400m. The shelf might extend for only a few kilometers under the sea, or it may extend for many.
-Continental slope: A steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.
-Mountain: A large landform that is higher than thee surrounding land. A mountain range is a continuous chain of mountains.
-Basin: An area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surrounding area.
-Valley: Is a linear depression in the land.
-Plateau: A flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above sea level.
-Plain: A large, open, flat or slightly undulating are of land.

-Lagoon: An area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.

-Massif: A compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits.

-Delta: An arm or inlet of the sea at the lower end of a river.

-Cliff: A high steep face of a rock.

-Tributary: A stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.

RECYCLING PROGRAM IN HONG KONG

The Environment Protection of Hong Kong will start a recycling program.
This program consists on recycling computers for the poor people that can't buy a new one. Also, they have Internet.
Only it is free for one year, when this period ends, they have to pay, but a very little quantity.

MAPS OF SPAIN!!!!!!!!

Here there are the maps of spain, the physical and the political.
This maps are for the bilingual class of geography.

PHYSICAL

POLITICAL

GLOSSARY OF UNIT TWO!!!!!!!!

EXPRESSIONS
  
-Lost for words: If you are shock and you can't speak.
-If you have a flash of inspiration: It means that you get a sudden idea that helps you to create or achieve what you were hoping to do.
-A big fish in a small pond: It means that he/she is very important or have a lot of influence but only in a small area or group.
-Cold fish: If someone is unfriendly and doesn't show his/her feelings emotions.
-Packed like sardines: To describe people in a very crowded space.
-Chock a block: For example, the streets are chock a block with cars today, it means the streets are full of cars.
-Like a duck to water: It means that you discover when you start doing a new activity that you are very good at it.
-To pass a law: "Aprobar una ley".
-To blow your own trumpet: If you are boasting about your achievements and your abilities.
-To have a bee in your bonet: If you are obssessed with it and can´t stop thinking about it.
-It´s in someone´s genes: When that person has the same personality traits as their parents, or does a similar job.
-If you scratch my back, I will scratch yours: It means if you do something for me, I will do something for you, especially if it is to do for yourself.
-He does not have a hair out of place: It means their appearence is very tidy or is perfect.


VOCABULARY

-Soil: Where you put a plant.
-Pollution: Contamination.
-Aerosols: "Aerosoles".
-Coal: "Carbón".
-Cattle station: Big farm.
-Methane: "Metano".
-Smog: The mix of smoke and fog.
-Jars: "Jarras".
-Cans: Tins.
-Waste: "Desechos", "restos".
-Laundromat: The place where you put your clothes for cleaning them.
-Ass: Asno.