Friday 14 October 2016

GEOGRAPHY UNIT 1 GLOSSARY

Here are the new words that I learnt during this first unit:

GEOGRAPHY: Science that aims to identify, contextualise, describe, explain and relate the different facts and phenomena that are associated with territories.
 
ANTHROPIC:  Not created by humans, artificial.
 
SOIL: Land, ground.
 
SUPRANATIONAL UNIT: Assotiation of different countries that have the same political, economic, culural or social interests. Ex: European Unión
 
 
CARTOGRAPHY: Discipline that is concerned with representing territories, from the smallest ones to the Earth as a whole.
 
PORTULAN CHARTS: Type of maps that dispayed the coasts in great detail because they were used to navigate the sea.

FAN:
Resultado de imagen de hand fan

CITY PLAN: Representation of very small places in great detail that show the layout of the streets, the location of squares, transport infraestructures(roads, airports, railways...), the most important buildings and monuments...

GIT: Geographic Information Technology is a group of methods and techniques used to find out about and represent territories.
 
TIMBER: Wood used for industry.
 
DAM: A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or rise the level of the water.
 
IRRIGATION SYSTEM: To supply(land or crops) with wáter by means of pipes, sprinkles, ditches ans streams.

 IT LIES...: It is located/ situated...
 
EARTHQUAKE: Sudden movement of the ground caused by movements within the earth's crust.
 
TO FLOOD: An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
 
MOUNTAIN RANGE: Group of mountains.
 
FIRE INSURANCE: Insurance covering damage ot loss caused by fire or lightning.
 
GRASS HOPPER:
Resultado de imagen de grasshopper

BOUNDARIES OF COUNTRIES: Limits of countries.
 
RAINFOREST:  A dense evergreen forest  usually located in the tropics with a minimun annual rainfall of approximately 180 centimeters.
 
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