SOCIAL SCIENCE ESO 1

UK GEOGRAPHY QUIZ

Go the website below and test your knowledge about the UK.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/countries/geography_great_britain.htm

RIOTINTO

Answer these questions after your excursion to Riotinto

1. Where is Riotinto located?

2. Historically what groups of people have occupied this land?

3. Why is the river called Rio Tinto?

4. Which planet is the landscape of Riotinto often compared to?

5. Which minerals can be found in Riotinto?

6. When did the United Kingdon start excavating minerals in Riotinto?

7. Why did British people change the location of Riotinto?

8. How did the excavation negatively impact the environment?

9. Why did the first football team in Spain begin in Huelva?

10. What film/novel explains the history of Riotinto?

11. What was your favourite part of this excursion?

Find an image of an Egyptian temple on the Internet, print it and stick in your notebook, write the names of the different parts of the temple. The temples can be found at http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/temples/index.html

Charles Darwin

See the article about Charles Darwin below. After you read the article please respond to the following questions:

1) Where and when was Charles Darwin born?

2) What was his father´s job?

3) Did he become a doctor?

4) What was the Beagle? What did he do there?

5) What did he discover during the course of his voyage aboard the Beagle?

6)What was his theory about the origin of the species?

Charles Darwin was born in England on February 12, 1809—the same day as Abraham Lincoln. He planned to become a doctor like his father, but decided against medicine after witnessing several operations performed without anesthesia. Darwin studied to become a minister, but he was not happy. At the age of 22, Darwin convinced his family to allow him to travel as an unpaid “naturalist” on a five-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle.

The Beagle set sail on December 27, 1831 to study the West Coast of South America and several Pacific islands. Darwin’s job was to study the geology and biology of the lands. During the course of the voyage, Darwin observed an enormous number of plant and animal species, and discovered many fossils. Darwin took careful notes on everything he observed. Those notes later provided the basis of his theories. Darwin returned home in 1836 and developed a reputation as one of England’s leading biologists.

Darwin concluded that species evolved over long periods due to what he called natural selection. There may be differences in the offspring of an organism. These differences are called mutations. We generally think of mutations as harmful, such as birth defects, but a mutation is simply an alteration of the genetic information of an organism. Some mutations are good. A child might be taller or stronger than his or her parents.

Darwin’s theory suggested that organisms evolved to fit their environment based on natural selection. If a mutation was good, the organism lived and contributed the mutation to the gene pool of its offspring. If the mutation was bad, the organism was more likely to die before contributing to the gene pool. Over billions of years, these mutations slowly produced the world we know today.

According to the theory of evolution, organisms have adapted to their environment. Lizards are green because if they were any other color they could be easy spotted and eaten. Humans eventually developed from less intelligent species through natural selection. If bigger animals were around, a purple dinosaur would have a tough time staying alive in a green forest.

For more information about Prehistory visit: http://www.mrdowling.com/602prehistory.html

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