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GEOGRAPHY- UNIT 6 AND 7

Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services

Economic agent: a person, group or institution involved in the economy

Goods: tangible economic products, such as food, that are usually consumed after production

Services: economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible

Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption. the production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour

Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sale of goods and services

Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it

Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires

Supply: availability of something of use or sale

Demand: the desire to own something in the market and the willingness to pay for it

Inflation: a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money

Profit: the monetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met

Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requires of people, groups or business

Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out

Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office

Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers

Employee: a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment

Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another

Active population: people currently employed in the production of goods and services  and the people who are unemployed or looking for their first job

Inactive population: people not in active service

Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment

Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age

Full-time contracts:  a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

Plot: An area of land where crops are grown.  (size, shape, borders...)

Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock.

Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. This method improves sil fertility and resistance to disease and pests

Intensive agriculture:  is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area.

Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed.

Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater.

Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields.

Polyculture:  is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

Monoculture:  is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years

Greenhouses:  is a building in which plants are grown

Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Shifting cultivation:  is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot

Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products.

Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings. This type of livestock must pass strict sanitary and quality controls

Cattle: are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

Fodder:  is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity.

Fishing grounds: An area of water that is used for fishing.

Aquaculture: is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.

Overfishing:  is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size.

Fleets: is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels

School of fish: many fishes together (banco de peces)

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Letter- Alba and Elisabeth

Hii Carol:

We are Elisabeth and Alba. We’re from Spain and we’re very excited to have you in our country. Also we are really nervous and we have a surprise for you.

We have planed some activities for this week:

So… you’re going to arrive here on Sunday night and we’re going to pick you up at the airport, and you’re going to meet our family.

The next day morning probably you’ll be very tired, so we can sleep or see a movie…

In the afternoon we can walk around the city and visit some interesting places and we can eat an ice cream in the “Plaza Mayor”!!!

We can have dinner in a typical restaurant or in a pizzeria.

In the second and the third day we are going to visit Alba’s House in León. And we’ll visit the cathedral or a very big gummy’s shop that has 3 floors.

The next we can go to Asturias to Alba’s house again and we can go to the beach, We’ll visit some parks and we can go to play basket and tennis. Also we are going to Oviedo and Gijón. There we can go shopping or to Ikea.

We’ll go to Galicia to Elisabeth’s house and stay some days there. We’ll go to the beach and some natural places.

On Saturday we are going to return to Salamanca. And you will meet our friends, if you want… And we are going  to a party.

And the last day we are going to take you to the airport because it’s time to return home.

We hope you’ll have a good time with us.

And remember that we can do a lot of things and you can tell us some things about Canada.

See you soon!!!! XXXOOO

                                                                       Elisabeth and Alba

SOCIAL SCIENCES- UNIT 5

1.The Crown: is the part of a constitutinal monarchy represented by the king.

2.Decentralised Government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.

 

3.Motion of no confidence:it is a motion put by the Opposition that censures an aspect of the Government's policy

 

4.Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It's made up of one or several settlements.

 

5. Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle diffences. (In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.)

 

6.Town Council: it is the organisation that governs each municipality in Spain.

 

 7.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

8.Mayor: it is person that governs the town hall.

 

9.Councilors: they are government officials that with the mayor make up the town council. They elect the mayor

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10.Province:it is  an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.

 

11.Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervetion of any other authority.

 

12.Statute of Autonomy: it is a law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.

 

13.Subsidiarity: the services the municipality can provide and they not be provided by the autonomous community.

 

14.Autonomous Community: they form  the Spanish territory with its own government.

 

15.Exclusive authority: it is a local government power over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, health care and education.

 

16.Share authority:it is the  local government and state power over laws related to transport or labour market

 

. 17.National sovereignty: all Spanish citizens elect the members of the Congress of  Deputies, the Senate, the autonomous parliaments, the town halls and the European Parliament (every four years.)

 

 18.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

19.Post-industrial society: it is a society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.

20.Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population  measured by education levels, health care, life expentancy and consumption.

 

21.Life expentancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.

 

22.Illiteracy: person who is unable to read and write.

 

23.Extended family: is a big family with grandparents, parents, children...

 

 24.Ministers: they are government officials that with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.

 

25.Nuclear family: is a contemporary family with parents and children.

 

26.Single parent family: is a family with a mother or father and children.

 

27.Same sex marriages: marriage between to people of the same sex

Do you think that having a Constitution is important for us?

I think it is very impoprtant because it is the most important rule and all the other spanish laws have to adapt to it and like this get a democratic state.

GEOGRAPHY- UNIT 4

Weakness:  It is similar to debility

EEC: It means European Economic Community

Economy of scale:  It is the decrease in unit cost of a product or a service resulting from mass production.

  Subsidy:  It is a type of financing offered by a goverment.

Currency:  Like money or coin.

Hetreogeneous: It is made up of things that are different.

Homogeneous: It is made up of the same kind of  things.

GDP: It means Gross Domestic Product

Subsidies: It's like aid or subvention.

Budget: It is a sum of money to be used for a specific purpose by a government

Investment: It is an amount of money invested

Surplus: It is a quantity in excess of what is required.

Shipyards: a place for the building or  maintenance of ships.

Outskirts: bordering areas.

Lack: It is like shortage or scarcity

Supplies: It is like provisions (food, equipment...)

Trade: A synonime is exchange.

Ombudsman: a goverment official or body who investigates complaints by private citizens against goverment institutions. 

CFP: the Common Fisheries Policy. GDP: the Gross Domestic Product.