Unit 1 Earth and space

Unit 1 Earth and space

1. Earth and Moon

   • Earth
     • 365 days sun
     • summer solstice autumn equinox winter solstice spring equinox
     • Northern hemisphere Southern hemisphere
     • 24 hours one rotation
     • north and south pole
   • Moon
     • 28 days earth
     • Lunar phases
       • Full Moon
       • First quarter
       • New moon
       • Third quarter

2. Tides

   • rise-fall seas
   • 2 hight tides and 2 low tides a day
   • rises-falls every 6 hours

3. Representing Earth

   • 2D
     • Maps
       • Physical
         • deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes
       • Political
         • cities, roads, borderies
   • 3D
     • Goble
   • Atlas
     • maps: countries, continents+thematic (climate, physical features, political features...)

4. Hemispheres, latitude, longitude

   • parallels
     • latitude
       • equator
   • meridians
     • longitude
       • Greenwich Meridian

5. Solar system

   • Telescopes
     • refracting
       • lenses
     • reflecting
       • mirrors
         • Hubble Space Telescope
   • Space Race
     • USSR
       • Sputnik I (1957)
       • Sputnik 2 (1957)
         • Laika
       • Yuri Gagarin
     • USA
       • Apollo 11 (1969)
         • Neil Armstrong

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