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3 Social Science Social Science Learning Lab is a collective work, conceived, designed and created by the Primary Educational department at Santillana, under the supervision of Teresa Grence. WRITERS Natalia Gómez María More ILLUSTRATIONS Dani Jiménez Esther Pérez-Cuadrado SCIENCE CONSULTANT Raquel Macarrón EDITOR Sara J. Checa EXECUTIVE EDITOR Peter Barton BILINGUAL PROJECT COORDINATION Margarita España Do not write in this book. Do all the activities in your notebook. Contents Get started! .............................. 6 1 The relief of Spain ................ 8 2 Our rivers ............................ 22 Learning Lab game ............. 36 3 We live in Europe ................ 38 4 Our world ........................... 52 Learning Lab game ............. 66 5 Studying the past ............... 68 6 Discovering history ............. 82 Learning Lab game ............. 96 Key vocabulary ................... 98 three 3 UNIT CONTENTS RAPS MINI LAB / BE A GEOGRAPHER! FINAL TASK 1 • Inland and coastal landscape features • Main features of the relief of Spain The relief rap • Compare landscapes Expedition to an autonomous community The relief of Spain • Parts of a mountain • Highest mountains and mountain • Mountain presentation ranges in Spain • Relief maps • How do you read a relief map? 2 • Types of rivers • River maps The river rap • How are watersheds similar Expedition on a river Our rivers • Parts of a river • Cantabrian rivers • How do you read a watershed map? • Features of a river • Atlantic rivers • Spanish rivers • Mediterranean rivers REVIEW Learning Lab game 3 • Where is Europe? • Rivers and lakes in Europe The Russian rap • Investigate a lake in Europe Expedition to a country in Europe We live in Europe • Types of maps • Countries in Europe • Learn European languages • The relief in Europe • The population of Europe • How do you read a political map? • The coast in Europe 4 • Asia • Africa The Oceania rap • Discover monuments of the world Expedition to Asia Our world • North America • Oceania • How do you read map scales? • South America • Antarctica REVIEW Learning Lab game 5 • Historical sources • Years, centuries and ages The archaeology rap • Finding fossils Make a personal timeline Studying the past • Archaeology • Historical timelines • How do we look for clues from the past? • Measuring time • Clues from the past • Timelines 6 • Palaeolithic and Neolithic • Renaissance The Renaissance rap • Historical costume designs Expedition to the past Discovering history • The Ancient Age • The Industrial revolution • How can we predict the future? • The Middle Ages REVIEW Learning Lab game KEY VOCABULARY 4 four UNIT CONTENTS RAPS MINI LAB / BE A GEOGRAPHER! FINAL TASK 1 • Inland and coastal landscape features • Main features of the relief of Spain The relief rap • Compare landscapes Expedition to an autonomous community The relief of Spain • Parts of a mountain • Highest mountains and mountain • Mountain presentation ranges in Spain • Relief maps • How do you read a relief map? 2 • Types of rivers • River maps The river rap • How are watersheds similar Expedition on a river Our rivers • Parts of a river • Cantabrian rivers • How do you read a watershed map? • Features of a river • Atlantic rivers • Spanish rivers • Mediterranean rivers REVIEW Learning Lab game 3 • Where is Europe? • Rivers and lakes in Europe The Russian rap • Investigate a lake in Europe Expedition to a country in Europe We live in Europe • Types of maps • Countries in Europe • Learn European languages • The relief in Europe • The population of Europe • How do you read a political map? • The coast in Europe 4 • Asia • Africa The Oceania rap • Discover monuments of the world Expedition to Asia Our world • North America • Oceania • How do you read map scales? • South America • Antarctica REVIEW Learning Lab game 5 • Historical sources • Years, centuries and ages The archaeology rap • Finding fossils Make a personal timeline Studying the past • Archaeology • Historical timelines • How do we look for clues from the past? • Measuring time • Clues from the past • Timelines 6 • Palaeolithic and Neolithic • Renaissance The Renaissance rap • Historical costume designs Expedition to the past Discovering history • The Ancient Age • The Industrial revolution • How can we predict the future? • The Middle Ages REVIEW Learning Lab game KEY VOCABULARY five 5 Get started! 8 7 6 1 11 4 12 5 9 2 10 3 Think about the world Continent one is Asia. 1 Look at the map. Name the continents and oceans. 901533_00_p06_h01_mundi_fisico_mudo Spain is in Europe. 2 Can you name a country on each continent? Madrid is a city in Spain. Do you know a city in these countries? 3 Look at the photo. Describe it. What country can you see? Explain why. I can see… I think it is… because… 6 six A B C Think about yourself 4 Look at the photos of Sara. Order them. 901533_00_p06_h01_mundi_fisico_mudo 5 Copy and complete. I started school in I am … years old. This year is … the year … My date of birth is … I am … years old. I was … years old. 6 What do you want to be when you grow up? Why? I want to be a geographer. I want to be a nurse. 7 In what year will you be 18 years old? How will the world be different? seven 7 1 The relief of Spain What are landscape features? A B C D Observe 1 Look at the photos. What can you You already know! see? Talk to a partner. • Spain has different types of landscapes. What can you see in photo A? • There are coastal landscapes and inland landscapes. I can see a cliff. • There are many different landscape features. 8 eight How are landscapes similar? Mini Lab Compare landscapes A B 1 Copy the diagram in your notebook. Landscape A Both Landscape B … … … 2 Compare the two landscapes. 3 Write the landscape features and man-made elements that you can see in the correct circle. Write the things you can see in both in the centre. 4 How are the landscapes similar? How are they different? Final task They are similar because… Expedition to an autonomous community nine 9 What is relief? Relief is the combination of landscape features in an area of land. The relief of coastal and inland landscapes is different. Coastal landscapes are next to the sea. A gulf is a large area of sea that extends A cape is an area of land that extends into into the land. the sea. An island is an area of land surrounded A peninsula is an area of land surrounded by water. A group of islands is called an by water on all sides except one. It is archipelago. connected to the coast by the isthmus. 1 Listen to the definitions and write the names of the landscape features. 2 Play ‘guess the landscape feature’ with a partner. It is a low elevation of land. Is it a hill? Yes! 3 Draw a coastal landscape in your notebook. Include a cape, a gulf and an archipelago. Label the landscape features. 10 ten 1 Key words • beach • plateau • cliff • river • lake • relief Inland landscapes are far from the sea. A mountain is an elevated area that is A valley is an area of low land between higher than the surrounding land. mountains. A plain is flat area of low land. A hill is a low natural elevation of land. Think about it 4 Copy and complete the diagram with hill, mountain and plain. … … … eleven 11 Where is the foot of a mountain? Mountains can be alone in a landscape or grouped with other mountains. A mountain range is a group of mountains. A mountain chain is a line of mountain ranges. Mountains have different parts. The peak is the highest part of a The foot is the mountain. bottom of the mountain. The sides are called slopes. 1 Copy the diagram and label the parts of the mountain. … … … 12 twelve 1 Be a geographer! How do you read a relief map? Relief maps use different colours to show the height and shape of the land. ALTITUDE From 1,000 to 1,500 metres From 500 to 1,000 metres From 0 to 500 metres Look at the key What does green represent on the map? 1 What does green represent on the map? What does yellow represent? 2 What colour represents the highest mountains? Green represents 3 What colour represents the rivers? low land. Look at the map 1 4 Copy and complete. a. ….. represents a river. 2 b. ….. represents a mountain. c. ….. represents a hill or plateau. d. ….. represents a plain. 4 3 thirteen 13 What do you know about the relief of Spain? The relief of Spain is organised according to the height of the land. C a n t a b r i a n S e a F R A N C E CORDILLERA CANTÁBRICA ANDORRA E P I B R I N S R E O IS O S T E B M A A S IB I I N N E R É N N L R A IC TR O A L N CE R E S E A A M E A E ST L C SI A B G P L A T E A U O U C S I T A L T R S I e a N S a n O n e A a r r P e L t d i IN M e T AS IR B A IV S U EMA Q IST S L S ICO A BÉT D A U G ALTITUDE (metres) Over 2,000 A T L A N T I C O C E A N Altitude (metres) From 1,500 to 2,000 I S L A S C A N A R I A S describes the height of From 1,000 to 1,500 From 700 to 1,000 a point compared with From 400 to 700 sea level (0 metres).
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    Unit 2 The Earth’s relief Extra activities: Name: Class: Group: Date: 1. Listen to the audio recording, answer the questions and complete the text with the following words: Asia, Pangaea, drift, continent, period, Africa. a) What was Pangaea? What happened to it in the secondary period? b) How did continents appear? c) Explain the continental drift to your partner. d) There was only one in the beginning. It was called . In the secondary continents started to move apart. In the beginning India was attached to but in quaternary it became part of . 2. How many layers make up the Earth? Which one is the outermost? And the innermost? Complete this table and then check your answers with your partner. Layer Subdivisions Depth Melted/Half melted/ Not Melted 3. What are tectonic plates? On which layer are they moving? How do they move? 4. Answer the following questions and then check your answers with your partner. a) How many continents are there in the Eurasian plate? b) Locate Australia on a tectonic plate. c) Which tectonic plate does Argentina belong to? And Brazil? d) Are there many earthquakes in Japan? Why so? 5. What is/are your favourite sport/s? What type of sports could you practise in the following locations? a) The Pyrenees in winter. b) The Pyrenees in summer. c) The Canary Islands any time of the year. 6. Order from highest to smallest the following peaks: Torre Cerredo, Puig Major, Las Villuercas, Mulhacén, Veleta, Teide, Teleno, Aneto, Moncayo. algaida editores, S.A. Authorized photocopiable material. photocopiable Authorized S.A.
  • REPASO Los Paisajes De España 1 Nombre: Fecha: Curso

    REPASO Los Paisajes De España 1 Nombre: Fecha: Curso

    UNIDAD REPASO Los paisajes de España 1 Nombre: Fecha: Curso: 1 Escribe el concepto al que se refieren las siguientes definiciones. ●● Cantidad de agua que lleva un río: ●● Lugar donde tiene su origen un río: ●● Línea imaginaria que separa las cuencas de dos ríos: ●● Parte inicial de un río donde el agua fluye más rápido: ●● Distancia entre el nacimiento y la desembocadura de un río: ●● Parte del río en el que fluye lentamente y deposita rocas: ●● Variación del caudal que sufre un río a lo largo del año: 2 Identifica cada una estas fotografías con la parte del curso de un río que corresponda. 3 Cita cuatro elementos que contribuyen a moldear el relieve terrestre. 1. 2. 3. 4. 4 Define estos conceptos. Cuenca hidrográfica Vertiente hidrográfica Ciencias Sociales 6.º EP. Unidad 1 MATERIAL FOTOCOPIABLE 6 UNIDAD REPASO Los paisajes de España 1 Nombre: Fecha: Curso: 5 Localiza en esta sopa de letras ocho ríos españoles y después realiza las actividades. A J S X M Ñ G W O K T C D U E R O X O J Ú C A R E B B Q U A I Z S f J G M I R B I D A S O A O P R Ñ O W E A I E X K E Z D L R M I Ñ O G Q T N Q G U A D A L Q U I V I R H V C Y E I E R Z J Y F D N T U H P V A U A L B A.