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Glossary of social sciences units 9 and 10

Glossary UNIT 10

 
- Cereals: Grasses grown for the edible components of their grain, such as rice and wheat.
-Mortgage: A loan to finance the purchase of private residential or commercial property.
-Speculation: Investment in stocks, property of other assets in the hope of gain, but with the risk of loss.
-Crop: A cultivated plant to be harvested as food, animal fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose.
-Agricultural landscape: A landscape that has been transformed by people to cultivate crops and/or rear livestock.
-Cultural heritage: The things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations or cultures.
-Domestic tourism: Tourism in which tourists do not leave their own country.
-Large-scale tourism: Travel and accommodation offered to large groups at affordable prices by tour operators.
-Tour operators: A company that combines tour and travel components to cater for large-scale tourism.
-High-speed rail: A type of rail transport involving high-speed trains.
-Peak season: The season when travel is most active and rates are highest.
-Off-peak season: The season when travel is less active and rates are lower.
-Recession: A business cycle contraction; a general slowdown in economic activity.

 Glossary UNIT 9

 -Freight: goods or produce transported by ship, aircraft, train, lorry or van.

 -Capital flows: the money that move all the countries

 -Exports: goods or services that are sold outside the countrie

 -Imports: goods or services that are brought into a country

 -Balance of trade: the difference between the monetary value of the exports and the imports of a country. -Balance of payments: all monetary transactions betweencountries

 -Retail:  businesses sell small quantities of goods directly to consumers

.-Wholesale: trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of goods and sell them, in smaller quantities, to other companies.

-Trade bloc: a group of countries that join together to form an area with special trade regulations.

-Transport network: the connection of road, railway lines, ports or airports that facilitate the transport of goods and/or people. 

-Market: the meeting of buyers and sellers of goods and services. It can be tangible or abstract and it decides the prices of goods and services

-Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures needed for an economy to function

-Trade: the buying and selling of goods to meet the needs of the population.

-Bartering: the first way of trading in history

-Tourism: a sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

-Information society: society in which revolutionary advances an IT dominate the economy

-Public services: cover basic need of population 

-Private services: offer personalised services to companies

My ideal future city

Recycling

Curituba-Brazil

The mayor of Curitiba has astrict vision of recyvling. First Jaime Lerner , the mayor, builds parks insted of canals and use sheep too cut the grass and other important change in the travel is that if you give rubbish in the stations and you get a bonobus, in Curitiba you can see that many people go in public-transport because it is very cheap

My Curriculum Vitae

social cience blog

This is my poster about one of the most importan revolucionary in the actual world

http://rulax.edu.glogster.com/bob-marley

Physical education glossary

-winger.A player stationed in one side
-double dribble. when a player catch the ball with the ands and bound it again
-six metre line . The diving line between the goalkeepers and the players
-speed up. increment your heart rate 
-withstands. means that you suport something pyshically
-freethrows. when someone in the other team have a fault you can htrow a freethrow
-overhall. in general
-listen up. listen carefully 
-full back. a defensive position
-eneable.make possible