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 GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!
   
    UNIT SEVEN

• Plot: An area of land where crops are grown
• Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock
• Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons
• Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed
• Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater
• Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields
• Polycultures: mixed farming 
• Monocultures: single-crop farming
• Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families
• Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products
• Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings
• Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity
• Fishing ground: An area of water that is used for fishing

 GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!
   
    UNIT SIX

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  • Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age
  • Supply: availability of something of use or sale
  • Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption. the production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour
  • Active population: people employed, unemployed or looking for work.
  • Inactive population: people not in active service
  • Consumption: the use of a production or service to satisfy needs or desires.
  • Services: economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible
  • Demand: the desire to own something in the market and willingness to pay for it. 
  • Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another
  • Disabled: physically handicapped person.
  • Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sale of goods and services.
  • Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it
  • Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires
  • Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services.
  • Inflation: a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money
  • Economic agent: person, group or institution involved in the economy.
  • Employee: person who works for other person to earn money.
  • Profit: the monetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met
  • Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requires of people, groups or business 
  • Employer: person who hires other person to works for their.
  • Full-time conctact: contract in which employees must work during all hours establish on the agreement.  
  • Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
  • Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office
  • Goods: tangible economic products, such as food, that are usually consumed after production. 
  • Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

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ENGLISH VOCABULARY 2º TRIMESTER!!!!!!!!



To ask for the moon means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
 
When you hold the fort it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away.
 
Under the table is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggestion corruption or illegality.
 
To horse around means to behave in a silly way, making noise and caussing disruption.
 
When you say someone has chickened out of something you mean they have failed to do something or they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
 
When you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life. 

A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night.  

When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled. 

A safe pair of hands is a similar expression it refers to someone who can be to do a good job avoiding mistakes.

If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying. 

If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it and you can easily see what you think is right and wrong. 

Money doesn't grow on trees means you must not spent to much money as there is a limited amount of it. 

Money is not object means that you have a lot of money available to spend. 

Let the chips fall where they may means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are. 

When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it is very cheap. 

If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of things but not achieving very much.

  THE LOST WORLD GLOSSARY!!!!!!!
 

• To argue: To present supporting or opposing reasons or cases in a dispute.
• Branch: A secondary woody stem arising from the trunk or bough of a tree or the main stem of a shrub.
• Bush: A dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches arising from the lower part of the stem.
• Clerk: A worker, in an office, who keeps records, files, etc...
• To embrace: To take or clasp (another person) in the arms.
• Hatchet: A short axe used for chopping wood, etc...
• Journey: A travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage.
• Liar: A person who has lied or lies repeatedly.
• Nod: To lower and raise (the head) briefly, as to indicate agreement, invitation, etc...
• Path: A road or way, esp a narrow trodden track.
• Plateau: A wide mainly level area of elevated land.
• Shake (the head): To move or cause to move up and down or back and forth with short quick movements; vibrate.

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