3º CC.SS. - TEMA 1 - Repaso

1. What is a star?
2. What is a planet?
3. What is a satellite?
4. What is the Milky Way?
5. What is a leap year?
6. What is the rotation?
7. What is the revolution?
8. Would there be days and nights if the Earth didn´t make the movement of revolution? Why?
9. What are the meridians?
10. Which is the first meridian?
11. How many meridians are there?
12. What´s the name of the reference parallel?
13. Is it at the same distance from the North Pole as the South one? Why?
14. What are the parallels?
15. Which are the most important parallels?
16. What is an ocean current?
17. Explain something about three ocean currents?
18. What is the difference between climate and weather?
19. Explain the three most important processes for rainfalls.
20. What weather causes a high pressure?
21. And a low pressure?
22. How are they represented in the weather maps?
23. What is a volcano?
24. What is an earthquake?
25. What is a glacier?
26. What are the wettest climates in the world?
27. What are the driest climates in the world?
28. What climates have a dry season?
29. What climates don’t have a dry season?
30. Which areas have a polar climate?
31. Where can we find the Mediterranean climate, in the east or the west of the continents?
32. Which climates are there in America?
33. Is there an equatorial climate in Europe? Why?
34. What is a biome?
35. What vegetation is characteristic of dry tropical climates?
36. What vegetation is characteristic of maritime climates?
37. What is the Little Ice Age?