3ºESO BILINGUAL: STUDY UNIT 1

You must study the following points of UNIT 1:

• The solar system

• Movements of the Earth: Rotation and Revolution.

• Definition of geographic network, parallels, meridians. Interprete illustrations about parallels and meridians.

• To find places in a map using the geographic coordinates.

• Calculate the time with the help of the map of time zones.

• Characteristics of the layers of the Earth.

• Interprete the map about main volcanoes, seismic zones and tectonic plates.

• Identify the landforms of Continental and Oceanic Relief and know how to define them.

• Definition of Rivers, deltas, estuaries, volume of a river, riverbed, drainage basin, total catchment area, lakes, groundwater, aquifers, glaciers, oceans, seas, u-shaped valleys.

• A climate graph similar of one of those which we analised in class. (Try to study the graphs and their characteristics about temperatures, precipitations, dry seasons...)

• Identify pictures of natural landscapes and explain its characteristics related to climate, vegetation, soil and fauna.