Geography diccionary:
Unit 1:
- Dam: Presa/Water barrier
- Due to: Debido a.../Because of...
- Crops/harvest: Cosechar/Farming
- Flat: Plano/Llano./With any elevation
- Stream/s: Arroyo/Small or little river
- Chart: Gráfica/Date table
- Enviroment: Medio ambiente/The natural world
- Worksheet: Hoja de ejercicios/School: Sheet of exercises
- Cartography: Cartografía/Is the discipline that is concerned with representing territories, from the smallest ones to the Earth
- Geography: Geografía/ Is a discipline that identify, contextualise, describe, explain and relate the different facts and phenomen that are associated with territories
- Physical geography: Geografia física/The study of the natural enviroment (relief, climates, water, plants, soil structure and fauna)
- Human geography: Geografía humana/The study of population and its characteristics, this geography investigates all human activity that affects the Earth
- Regional geography: Geografía regional/Studies the natural or artificial units modified by humans and relate them to all their physical and human elements
- Scale: Scala/The distance on a map to the corresponding real distance
- Map projection: Projeccion en mapas/Is a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations on the surface of a sphere
Unit 2:
- Eartquake: Terremoto/Seismic tremor in the Earth
- Mountain: Montaña/Natural elevation of land.
- Plate tectonics: Placas tectónicas/The two sub-layers of the earth's crust that move, flote, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continental drift, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and oceanic trenches.
- Mantle: Manto/Layer of the Earth.
- Crust: Corteza/In the Earth, the outermost(mas exterior) layer.
- Volcanou: Volcan/Mountain that expels lava or ash (ceniza).
- Collide: Colisión/Smash together
- Huge: Enorme/Something very big.
- Subduction: Subducir/In geology: When one plate collide to other plate and then go down the other.
- Uplife: Levantamineto/In geology: When two plates collide and then they go up.
- (Ex: Himalaya)
- Hypo-center: Hipocentro/Deep zone of the earth's crust where an earthquake starts
- Fault line: Falla/In geology: A crack in the Earth.
- Epi-center: Epicentro/The center of a earthquake.
- Core: Núcleo/Centre of a planet
