P.E. ENDURANCE AND FLEXIBILITY, AND BASKETBALL

Here are the notes that we have to learn for physical education this term.

1. Endurance and flexibility
2. Basketball
3. Activities of endurance and flexibility

A JOURNEY TO VALLADOLID

On Wednesdy 2nd of November we went to a school trip in Valladolid. First we went to the centre and we had free time. Later we went to Miguel Delibes cultural centre,in which we listened a contemporary music. When the concert finished we had lunch. Later we took the bus and we went to visit the wine museum and the castle of peñafiel in which we had a travel guide. After that ,we had a little lunch. Finally we returned to Villamayor.
My opinion about this school trip is that it was a good experience, we learned how it sounds the comtemporary music and we were delighted with that amazing place so we had a great time!!

GEOGRAPHY: DESCRIBING A LANDSCAPE

• Sahara Desert

      The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert and one of the harshest environments on the planet. It        is the largest desert in the world

• Description 

  At 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara, which engulfs most of        North Africa. The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania,    Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.

The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the western edge, the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Red Sea on the east, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south. The Sahara is divided into western Sahara, the central Hoggar (Ahaggar) Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Air Mountains, an area of desert mountains and high plateaus, Ténéré desert and the Libyan desert, which is the most arid region. 

• Climate of Sahara

The Sahara’s northeasterly winds can reach hurricane level and often give rise to sand storms and dust devils. Half of the Sahara receives less than an inch of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) per year. The infrequent rain is usually torrential.The temperature variation is high because it has a cold nights and hot days. Due to this kind of climate in the sahara the landscape is mainly desertic with big dunes and few trees.

• Flora

Due to the dry condition, the Sahara contains almost no flora.  From the Mediterranean vegetation which covered the Sahara mountains before they became a desert. Plants were adapted to the climate to reduce evaporation and increase water absorption: very small leaves, very long roots which can reach the most humid, water accumulation in the tissues and leaves covered with wax (succulent).

      Red Acacia Tree 

                                                                          Doum palm

• Fauna

Animals have also created some strategies to preserve water and avoid hot weather: thick skin and underground life like the scorpions and insects, recuperation of water steam in pulmonary air by condensing it in nostrils, production of drained faeces and concentrated urine for some birds, loss of sudoriferous glands,  clear colored skin to reflect the sun, search for water and food at night, accumulation of water in internal pockets, increase of internal temperature to avoid perspiration…

Camel

Dromedary


Adax


Fenéc fox

                                                 

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

VEGETATION:

Oak

                                                                             Beeches

Thickets

Heather

Meadows

Cork oak

Taiga forest: type of forest made up of
 ever green tree like firs 

Firs

Tundra

Birches

                                                                                        


                                                                                      

                                                                                        

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

FAUNA:

Seal


Fallow deer


Stork


Vulture


Marten



Mink


Chamois


Marmot

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

Land and coastal relief

PLATEAU: is a large area of high and fairly flat land

RAVINE: small canyon (barranco)

ESTUARY: is the wide part of a river where it joins the sea

BASIN: an area of land containing a river or a lake thst is lower that the surrounding area (depression)

PENINSULA: a piece of land surrounded by water on all the side except one

ISLANDS: a piece of land completely by water. A group of islands called ARCHIPELAGO

CLIFFS: is a high area of land with very steep side, especially one next to the sea

BUTTES: hill or mound (cerro)

MESAS: is a large hill with a flat top and steep sides

CREEKS: small stream

FLOOD PLAIN: (llanuras de inundación)

BUTTE

ESTUARY

                                                                                                                                              

                 

                            

                                                                                                                                          

RAVINE

                                                                                                       

UNIT 1 GEOGRAPHY: VOCABULARY

RAINFOREST: is a thick forest of tall trees which is found in tropical areas

WILD PIG: animal (jabalí)

COAST: land by the sea

MOUNTAIN RANGE: group of mountains

HILL: colina

OASIS: is small area in a desert where water and plants are found

EARTHQUAKE: is a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the earth´s crust

POPULATION: is all the people who live in a country

RAINFALL: measure of rain (precipitación)

STREAMS: riachuelo

DAM: pantano

DUE TO: debido a