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SECOND TERM REVISION

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UNIT 4 - PLANETS

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Type of planets

Big and made of gas● Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus

Small and solid (made of rocks):● Mercury, Venus, The Earth and Mars

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● Moon: it is the satellite of the Earth● Phases of the moon:

New Moon 1st Quarter Full Moon 3erd Quarter

MOON

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The Earth movements

● Rotation:

TIME: every 24 hours (1 day).

CAUSES: day and night.

AROUND: its own axis.

● Revolution:

TIME: Every 365 days + 6 hours (1 year).

CAUSES: seasons.

AROUND: the Sun.

● The Earth axis is TITLE.

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Earth layers

● CRUST:– Made of solid rock

– It is the outler layer

● MANTLE:– Made of magma

– It is semi-liquid

● CORE:– Made of iron

– It is the inner layer

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UNIT 5 - HISTORY

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Counting the time

● Counting the time: we use years and centuries– 1 century = 100 years.

– We start counting in year 1 (Jesús Christ)

– Before year 1: B.C.

– After year 1: A.D.

– Examples for naming centuries:711 A.D. → 8th century A.D.

1.492 A.D. → 15th century A.D.

2.016 A.D. → 21st century A.D.

55 A.D. → 1st century A.D.

3.500 B.C. → 36th century B.C.

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Periods of History

Prehistory

Ancient History

The Middle Ages

The Early Modern Age

The Modern Age

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COMPLETE THE TIME LINE

Year 1

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REVISE YOUR TIME LINE

First humans Writing Roman Empire fell Reconquista French Revolution Colon discover America

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Prehistory

● Started: 5 millions years ago.● Ended: 5.000 years ago (3.500 B.C.) - Writing● Living in caves● Invented/discovered: wheel, fire, agriculture

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Ancient History

● Started: 5.000 years ago (3.500 B.C.)● Ended: 476 A.D. (fall of Roman empire)

GREEKS: coins – democracy – Olympic games

ROMANS: aqueducts – Latin – Hispania – conquered many lands in Europe, north Africa and Asia.

Came Iberian Peninsula in 218 b.c.

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The Middle Ages

● Started: 476 A.D. ● Ended: 1492 A.D.

– Muslims: came Iberian Peninsula in 8th century

– Al-Andalus was the name of Iberian Peninsula

– Reconquista: Christians conquered al-Andalus

– Printing press

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The Early Modern Age

● Started: 1492 Reconquista and Colon ● Ended: 1789 with the French Revolution

– Compass.

– Big Spanish Empire: In Europe, America (ie Perú) and Asia (ie Philippines)

– Golden Age: writers, painters... like: Cervantes, Lope de Vega,

Velazquez, Goya,

Greco... andShakespeare inEngland

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The Modern Age

● Started: 1789

– Steam trains

– Factories

– Industrial revolution

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UNIT 6 – OUR HERITAGE

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Archaeologists

● People who dig under the ground to find objects and buildings from the past

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Alphabets

● Most are from Ancient History. Three examples are:

Egyptians

Greeks

Romans.

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Some Sources

● Objects.● Buildings.● Paintings.● Sculptures.● Photos.● Music & songs.● Library● Encyclopedia