Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Prehistory homework

1. What is the difference between prehistory and history?
 The difference is that the are no written documents from the prehistory and when the men learnt how to write, history began.
2. What does paleolithic mean?
Paleolithic means:
paleo- old
lithic- stone
paleolithic-old stone
3. What is Atapuerca? Why it is important?
The project of Atapuerca is the investigation of a cave in the sierra of Atapuerca
It's very important because it can explainthings in human evolution.
4. Where is it?
It is in burgos, in the mountain with sites, that haven't been discover since the end of the 19th century.
5. What can you find there?
There the specialist that were investigating  discovered pieces of hominids' skulls.


In that place could be one of the few pieces of hominids we found in Spain.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Compare and contrast the three most important monotheistics religions

Cristianyty, Judaism and Islams.
Similarities:
-all of them are monotheistic religions.
-all of them believe in the same person(with different name).
-all of them  say that in a part of the year they can't eat meat.
-cristians and jewsh use the bible(jewsh only old testament)
Differences:
-cristians think jesus is a messian and jewsh and muslims think he is a prophet.
-cristianyty's symbol is a cross, judaism's symbol is the david's star, and islam's symbol is a moon with a star.


-cristians have churches as building, jewsh have sinagogues and muslims have mosques.
-cristians have the bible as  book, jewsh have the torah and muslims have the koran.
- for cirstians the special day is sunday, fos jewsh is saturday and for muslims is fryday.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Timelines

We have to do a timeline about anything we want.
 My timeline is about the 4 travel of cristobal columbus .
1492      1493       1494                                1498                   1500                   1502                 1504 
/---/----/---------/-------/------------------------------/---------------------/---------------------/-------------------                     
1492: There are 2 important dates in this year.
-3rd august 1492:columbus leave Spain. he did that in 2 little boats(la niña and la pinta)and one bigger (santa maria).
-columbus arrived to america,specificly to an island in las bahamas.
1493:There are 2 important dates in this year.
-cristobal columbus came back to spain from his first travel.
-cristobal columbus began his 2nd travel to america to discover the treasures from asia.
1949:cristobal columbus continue exploring the sea
1948: cristobal columbus began his third travel
1500:francisco de boadilla was send by the monarchs to la española
1502:columbus began his 4th travel with his brother
1504:the travels of cristobal columbus conclude.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Arroyomolinos

1.
                    World map:
                                In red is marked Spain.
                   Europe:
                               In green is marked Spain.
                    Spain:
                              In pink is marked Madrid.  
                     
                 Madrid:
                            In red is maked arroyomolinos.
2.
Avila, Segovia, Guadalajara, Toledo and Cuenca surrounds Madrid.
3.
Madrid coordinates are 40º 16´ 9´´ N  3º 55´ 12´´ O




 4/5. Navalcarnero(west), Mostoles( North East), Parque Coimbra(North), Moraleja de enmedio(East)and Cotoredondo(South) are the frontiers of Arroyomolinos.


6.Arroyomolinos is mainly made up of hills and the river that passes near Arroyomolinos is the river Guadarrama.
7.Arroyomolinos climate is mediterranean climate.
8.Arroyomolinos is sorruonded by a forest called "El pinar                                                                                                     



9. In Arroyomolinos there are about 10.000 inhabitants and you can reach Arroyomolinos throw the A-5or with a bus with numbers 495,497,498 and 499.
10.Arroyomolinos was founded during the Muslim invasion, later to be reconquered by King Alfonso VI of Castile in the decisive step towards recapturing Toledo (1085). By then, the place was known as Chozas Creek.

Other sources however feel that the town was founded in the year 1400, with the same name, later changing to the present. It was during those same years when Pedro I the Cruel Day gave Gomez de Toledo privileged to repopulate the term Arroyomolinos with 80 inhabitants.

Torreón
The most representative of the town and witness its historical exception is the Tower of Arroyomolinos (Pan Tower or Castle Arroyomolinos) is located in the same name, on the west side of Madrid. Is in the same town and mantiente a good state of preservation, having been restored in the early twenty-first century. It was built between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as a lordly tower.

SECOND PART:




2. From the park we could see the frontiers  of arroyomolinos, from the north we could see an urbanitation called parque coimbra and  mostoles that from the distance is a big tonw with high buildings and parque coimbra is a very big urbanitation but like a tonw is very small and it doesn't have tall buildings. On the west we could see Navalcarneroonly a little so we only see the tall buildings. In the same part of the view of Navalcarnero, in the foregound we could see the river Guadarama but only a little.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Notebook Unit 5 and 6 Weather and Climate/Climate and Landscape of the Earth

Homework for Thrusday,3 February:

The Earth´s Climates:

 -Equatorial:(in the equator)
      -High temperatures(25º C).
      -Rivers with high regular flow(amazon).
      -It´s vegetations are jungles.
      -So much speices of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects.
      - Inhabitants live from basic farming.


-Tropical:(north and south of equator)
     - High temperatures all year(dry and rainy seasons).
     - River flow depnds on the season(dry in dry season, rise in rainy season).
     - Savannas are typical landscapes.
     - In the savannas there are herbivores and predators
     - Inhabitants depend on livestock, crop rotation, agricultureand plantations.

- Deserts:(in tropics)
    -High temoeratures in the day and low at nigth.
    -No rivers,light and irregular rainfall.
    -Riverbeds that contain only water at cretain times.
    -No vegetation.
    -Inhabitants are pastoral nomads and depend on settlements and oases.

-Oceanic:(between 40º and 60º latitudes)
     -Mild temoeratures.
     -Rivers with high regular flow and light and regular rainfall.
     -Meadows are typical vegetation.
     -Mammals are typical animals.

-Mediterranean:(mainly in mediterranean sea)
    -Summers are hot and winters are mild.
    -Rivers have low irregular flow(Floods).
    -Evergreen trees are common vegetation.
    -Mammals, reptiles, birds, insects are tipical.
    -The land in mediterranean climate is good for farming.

-Continental:(interior europe, asia and north america)
    -Hot summers and cold winters(extremes temperatures)
    -High flow in rivers and little rainfall.
    -Vegetation in the north is taiga and in the south steppes.
    -Taiga is used to make cellulose and steppes to make livestock and cereals.

- Polar:North and south pole:
    -Temperatures very low(between 0º and40º C).
    - Low precipitation(snow).
    -Tundra is the only vegetation.
    -Inhabitants survive hunting.

-High Mountain:(ares above 2500 m)
   -Temperatures are very low.
   -Heavy precipitation.(mountaintop precipitation in snow).
   -Inhabitants survive with livestock.
   -Tourist like climbing and hiking.

Notebook Of Books That We Read In Class

Homework for Monday,17 January:

Here it is the homework about my trip around the world:


At the beginning of the year my mum had the idea of travelling around the world and i ask if it can be in my birthday and she agreed. I was so happy of that. I am going to tell you about my trip:


I leaved my house the fourth of february,in the day of my birthday,that day i went from my house too paris and i visited the eiffell tower, i stayed there for five days and then i got a plane to egypt to see the pyramids, few days later i got another plane and i went to an indian forest,when i arrived to the coast of india i got a shipto japan and now i am in san francisco, passing throw a very long bridge; my mother says that our rute is similar to Phileas fogg´s and i am agree but we are doin it by plane and ship, so we will do it in less time. Next days we are going to visit New york and then to Dublin and i wiil be in madrid before i have to take again a plane to Dublin with my classmates.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Notebook Unit 4 Rivers and Seas

Homework for Monday,24 January:

Write the definition of the words that we viewed in class.
Meander:
Place were the river has a curve.




Delta:
With sedimentationand river force form little islands in the mouth of the river.


Tributary:
Small river that deposit its water in another river.

Bog:
An area that is not going to move water.
Lake:
An area of water sorruondedby land.
Torrent:
Little and quik rivers.

 Waterfall:
In upper course, when the water falls.
 Estuary:
When the river's force is lower and the sea entres in the river's mouth and there aren't deltas or sedimentation.


Glacier:
Frozen mass of water at the head of the river.



Marsh-Lagoon:

 Marsh are mixtures of mud and water that is not going to move.
 Lagoons are only water that don't move.
Marsh.Lagoon.

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