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REINFORCEMENT WORKSHEET PLANET EARTH AND ITS REPRESENTATION

Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______

PHOTOCOPIABLE MATERIAL / © Oxford University Press España, S. A.

1. PLANET EARTH 1. Fill in the gaps with the following words:

a) The _________ is an almost perfect __________, but slightly _____________ at the ___________.

b) 70% of the total surface area of the Earth is covered by ___________ (oceans and seas), and only 30% is land.

2. Label the illustration with: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Earth, Uranus, Venus.

3. Match the following terms with their definition.

flattened water continents sphere poles Earth

The Sun

Planet

Satellite

Galaxy

Atmosphere

It rotates on its axes and revolves around some planets.

It’s made up of a combination of planets, stars, gas clouds and cosmic dust.

A layer of gases which surrounds the Earth and protects life from dangerous solar radiation

A star which produces its own light.

Rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun, and doesn’t produce its own light.


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


4. Write down the name of each type of galaxy: spiral, elliptical, spherical and irregular.

5. Choose the correct answer.

a) What is the name of the galaxy our Solar System is in? Atmosphere/Milky Way/Gas cloud b) What shape is the galaxy our Solar System is in? Irregular/Spiral/Elliptical/Spherical

REINFORCEMENT WORKSHEET. ANSWER KEY PLANET EARTH AND ITS REPRESENTATION

Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


Earth sphere flattened poles

water

1. PLANET EARTH 1. Fill in the gaps with the following words:

a) The _________ is an almost perfect __________, but slightly _____________ at the ___________.

b) 70% of the total surface area of the Earth is covered by ___________ (oceans and seas), and only 30% is land.

2. Label the illustration with: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Earth, Uranus, Venus.

3. Match the following terms with their definition.

flattened water continents sphere poles Earth

Sun

Planet

Satellite

Galaxy

Atmosphere

It rotates on its axes and revolves around some planets.

It’s made up of a combination of planets, stars, gas clouds and cosmic dust.

A layer of gases which surrounds the Earth and protects life from dangerous solar radiation

A star which produces its own light.

Rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun, and doesn’t produce its own light.

The Sun The Moon

Mercury Earth

Venus Mars

Jupiter Saturn

Uranus

Neptune


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


spiral

irregular

elliptical

spherical

4. Write down the name of each type of galaxy: spiral, elliptical, spherical and irregular.


a) What is the name of the galaxy our Solar System is in? Atmosphere/ Milky Way/Gas cloud

b) What shape has the galaxy our Solar System is in? Irregular/Spiral/Elliptical/Spherical


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


2. THE EARTH’S MOVEMENTS

1. Identify which movement each illustration shows.

a) _____________

b) _____________


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


2. Label the cardinal points on the compass.

3. Complete the following sentences with either east or west.

The Sun sets in the ______________. The Sun rises in the _______________.

4. Decide if the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false sentences.

a) The seasons are spring, summer and winter. _____________________________________________________

b) An orbit is the trajectory or path an object travels around another object in space. _____________________________________________________

c) The Earth rotates on an imaginary line called the Earth’s axis. _____________________________________________________


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


rotation

revolution

2. THE EARTH’S MOVEMENTS

1. Identify which movement each illustration shows.

a) _____________

b) _____________


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


east

north

south

west

east west

2. Label the cardinal points on the compass.

3. Complete the following sentences with either east or west.

The Sun sets in the ______________. The Sun rises in the _______________.

4. Decide if the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false statements.

a) The seasons are spring, summer and winter. False. The seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

b) An orbit is the trajectory or path an object travels around another object in space. True

c) The Earth rotates on an imaginary line called the Earth’s axis. True


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


3. GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES

1. Put the following sentences in their correct place.

2. Draw the line of the following elements in the map according to this color code: Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Arctic circle, Greenwich meridian. Then, write Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere in their correct places.

PARALLELS MERIDIANS Greenwich meridian (0º)

Lines of latitude

Lines of longitude

Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator.

Imaginary semi-circles that go from pole to pole.

Equator (0ºN)


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


3. GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES

1. Put the following sentences in their correct place.

2. Draw the line of the following elements in the map according to this color code: Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Arctic circle, Greenwich meridian. Then, write Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere in their correct places.

Lines of latitude

Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator.

Equator (0º)

Greenwich meridian (0º)

Lines of longitude

Imaginary semi-circles that go from pole to pole.

PARALLELS MERIDIANS

Northern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


4. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE EARTH

1. How do we call the people who make maps?

a) Biologists b) Cartographers c) Illustrators

2. Match each map projection with its representation.

3. Complete the sentences with the following terms.

Cartography is the science of studying and making ______________.

A projection is the result of projecting a 3D image onto a ___________surface.

A map is the ______________representation of the whole or part of an area on a flat surface.

4. Each of the following characteristics corresponds to one of the maps. Put them in their correct places.

! This type of map represent in detail the relief, cities, towns or villages, roads and railways and other features of an area.

CONICAL PROJECTION CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION PLANAR PROJECTION

This is the best type of projection for medium latitudes.

This is the best type of projection for the polar regions.

This type of projection is used to represent the entire world.

flat true maps


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


! This type of map show specific aspects of an area. For example, they can be political (with borders or administrative divisions), show infrastructures (with motorways or railway lines), show relief, climate or population.

5. The following sentences are about scale. Read them and choose if they refer to a large scale or a small scale map.

! They show a lot of detail because they represent small areas. Small scale/Large scale ! Show few details because they represent large areas. Small scale/Large scale ! They have a scale of up to 1:50 000 and are used to represent towns, cities, provinces or sections

of rivers. Small scale/Large scale ! They are used to represent the world, continents, large regions of the Earth or medium to large

countries. Small scale/Large scale

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP THEMATIC MAP


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


4. REPRESENTING THE EARTH

1. How do we call the people who make maps?

a) Biologists b) Cartographers c) Drawers

2. Match each map projection with its representation.

3. Complete the sentences with the following terms.

Cartography is the science of studying and making _________.

A projection is the result of projecting a 3D image onto a _______surface.

A map is the _________representation of the whole or part of an area on a flat surface.

CONICAL PROJECTION CYLINDRICAL PROJECTION PLANAR PROJECTION

This is the best type of projection for medium latitudes.

This is the best type of projection for the polar regions.

This type of projection is used to represent the entire world.

flat true maps

maps

flat

true


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


4. Each of the following characteristics corresponds to one of the maps. Put them in their correct places.





5. The following sentences are about scales. Read them and choose if they refer to large scales or small scales.

! Show a lot of detail because they represent small areas. Small scale/Large scale ! Show few details because they represent large areas. Small scale/Large scale ! They have a scale of up to 1:50 000 and are used to represent towns, cities, provinces or sections

of rivers. Small scale/Large scale ! They are used to represent the world, continents, large regions of the Earth or medium to large

countries. Small scale/Large scale

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP THEMATIC MAP


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


5. TIME ZONES

1. Fill in the gaps using the time zone words from the box.

The Earth takes 24 ______________ to rotate on its own axis. During each of those hours the Earth travels a distance called _______________.

____________________ is the starting point for the time zones around the world. If you travel east from this point you _____________________ for every time zone you cross; but if you travel west you ___________________ for each time zone.

Time zones are mainly used to establish the _________________ between different regions and countries of the Earth.


a) Which Spanish autonomous community is in a different time zone from the others? Canary Islands/Madrid/Cataluña

b) What time would it be in that autonomous community if it is 12 p.m. in the Iberian Peninsula? An hour less (11 a.m.)/ The same time/3 p.m.

3. Find out the current local time in New York when in Madrid it is 16.30 pm.

time difference hours time zone Greenwich meridian add an hour subtract an hour


Name: _______________________________________________ Course: _____ Date: _______


hours

time zone

Greenwich meridian

add an hour

subtract an hour

time difference

5. TIME ZONES

1. Fill in the gaps using the time zone words from the box.

The Earth takes 24 ______________ to rotate on its own axis. During each of those hours the Earth travels a distance called ______________.

_________________ is the starting point for the time zones around the world. If you travel east from

this point you _____________________ for every time zone you cross; but if you travel west you

___________________ for each time zone.

Time zones are mainly used to establish the _____________ between different regions and countries of the Earth.


a) Which Spanish autonomous community is in a different time zone from the others? Canary Islands/Madrid/Cataluña

c) What time would it be in that autonomous community if it is 12 p.m. in the Iberian Peninsula? An hour less (11 a.m.)/The same time/3 p.m.

3. Find out the current local time in New York when in Madrid it is 16.30 pm.

10.30 a.m.

Southern Hemisphere

time difference hours time zone Greenwich meridian add an hour subtract an hour

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