Here you have the Powerpoint presentation we saw last Monday. Remember the contents: best places for fishing, the Exclusive Economic Zones or territorial waters every country has, the main problems that affect fishing, the development of aquaculture and some of the problems derived from marine aquaculture.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday 17 January 2011(written Tuesday 18 January)
Today in social sciences we have started checking the exercise that Paqui gave us on Friday. She also gave us to read pages 36 and 37 about fishing. The differences between the places to fish like inshore fishing and
high-sea fishing. She also has shown us a presentation with the best places to fish. I thought at first that the warm currents were better to the fish than cold currents because of the temperature, but, as Paqui told us in the cold currents less water evaporates and because of this there is less salinity, and that propitiates to the accumulation of
plankton. I knew that in the union of cold and warm is very good for the fish because the temperature is milder and also there is more plankton. The presentation talked about aquaculture and capture of fish and how the fish catches has established and stayed in more or less the same numbers, and how the aquaculture has grown to satisfy the demand
of fish. This is a good way to prevent overfishing.
The last thing I want to say is the division of the seas in the countries. 200 km from the coast to the ocean and the only way to fish in those waters is to be from this country( or from the E.U. in its waters).
Sorry, I wanted to write it yesterday but I started to study French and I forgot.
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Cartoons about fishing
As the person in charge of writing yestarday´s journal hasn´t done it, here you have some cartoons related to the concepts we studied yesterday. Can any of you explain what do these cartoons refer to?
Friday, January 14, 2011
14th of January the 2011
Today in Social Science first, Paqui has told us something about eggs. If their number start with 0 they are for a enclosed hen and if they start with 1 they are for a free hen. Then we have checked the four exercises about stockbreeding. After Paqui has told us, that on Monday she is going to return us the projects about stockbreeding and agriculture in Campo de Criptana with the marks.
Later Paqui has become a litte angry with because we don´t let her to continue with the class. After we have talked about organs donor, that in United Kingdom, the meat is contaminated for the "mad cow disease" and the people can´t be blood donor.
And if we don´t have finished to explain the section about fishing because we don´t have time, Paqui has guiven us for homework read the text about fishing and the exercise 1 from page 37.
This is inshore fishing
This is a factory ship, that fishes in the ocean (high-seas fishing)
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Challenge number 3
This time you will have to research about different types of fish. You will have to answer to four questions:
Question 1
Watch the PowerPoint presentation and write the names in Spanish of the fish that appear. Here you have the list, so you can copy, paste it and don´t have to waste time writing all the names again:
TROUT
CARP
SALMON
EEL
STURGEON
SARDINE
ANCHOVY
MACKEREL
HORSE MACKEREL
HERRING
RED MULLET
TUNA
COD
GILTHEAD BREAM
SEA BASS
HAKE
WHITING
SWORDFISH
GROUPER
TURBOT
SOLE
HALIBUT
CONGER EEL
MONKFISH
Question 2
How do we call in English a large group of fish that swim together? The following picture can give you a clue:
Question 3
How do we say in English “pescado blanco” and “pescado azul”? What is the difference between them?
Question 4
What kind of fish do you mostly eat at home? Name at least 3 different types of fish you eat and the way you eat it (boiled, fried, in sauce, roasted…).
I hope this time you don´t complain about the level of difficulty of the challenge. See you on Monday!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Glogster poster about fishing
Today we have discovered a new Internet tool that can be very useful to present and summarize concepts: Glogster Edu. This tool allows the users to create glogs, that is, interactive multimedia posters, that can include texts, pictures, sound, videos, graphics and data attachments. The main advantage of Glogster Edu is that it makes possible to organize the information in one only page and it´s very visual. We´ll learn to use Glogster Edu very soon (if someone is so kind to let us use the Althia room). This way you will be able to prepare your own interactive posters to study, review vocabulary or organize your ideas for an oral presentation.
You can use the "Fishing" glog to review the definitions and the new vocabulary we have learned today. Click on "View full size", if you want to observe the pictures with more detail. See you on Friday!
Hello everybody!
Today in Social Science, Ana Margarita has been with us. We have given to Paqui the project about the agriculture or the stockbreeding. Paqui has said that we have to participate in the blog, because we don't write.
Paqui has explained us what is the transhumance, is a traditional practice of Mediterrean countries that it consists in moving herds in search of fresh pastures and milder weather, depending on the season of the year:
· In winter the herds move to the South, it's starts in November (red arrows)
Ana Margarita has said to us, that probably we'll go to Ireland, it's fantastic!
Then Paqui has given us some exercise to do about stockbreeding, after that we have started with the fishing that it's a economic activity that consists in extracting resources from the aquatic environment. We have seen the fishing equipment, techniques, types of fishing that can be: traditional fishing and commercial or industrial fishing.
Now some words that we have learned today:
- Herds: rebaño
- Netting: con red
- Harpoons: arpón
- Fishing equipment: artes o aparejos de pesca
- Fishing rod: caña de pesca
- Trap: trampa
- Hook: anzuelo
- Shellfish: marisco
- Trawling: arrastro
- Electrofishing: pesca eléctrica
- Spear- fishing: con arpón
- Angling: con caña
- Hakes: merluza
- Lobsters: langosta
- Prawns: gambas
- Inshore fishing: pescao de bajura
Monday, January 10, 2011
Risks of intensive animal farming
Raising animals in an intensive way means that the animals have to grow quickly, so that the farmers can use their products as soon as they can. In order to reduce costs and increase profit margins, the animals live in small spaces and they eat fodder provided by the farmers. Despite the sanitary and quality controls, there have been some scandals related to the way of feeding the animals raised in intensive farms:
- The “mad cow disease” of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): This disease affected cows and it passed on humans through beef meat. The cows were infected because they ate feed made with carcasses of different animals (infected sheep, birds, dogs, cats, other cows…). Ruminant vegetarian cows were fed with feed made with meat and bone meal coming from other animals.
You can read more about this disease on the following link:
- The most recent scandal related to intensive animal farming is the “dioxin affair” in Germany: some feed producers used industrial oils to include fats (proteins) in the feed chicken, hens and pigs eat. These industrial oils contained dioxins, which are carcinogenic. The proportion of dioxins found in the feed was 79 times higher than the allowed. Around 5,000 farms had to close in Germany last week, but the problem is far to be solved: many eggs were exported to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and they were used to make different products (cakes mainly).
You can get more information on the following links:
Journal
Today in Social Sciences we had doubts about some project. Then Paqui explained several things, one of which is like has been created, sterile male flies this is done to end the fruit flies in the field. After we also talked about the people that made the feed of cows, made it with dead animals like sheep, the sheep disease passed from them to the cows and from the cows to the humans. The consecuences was the brain becomes a spongue and the person isn't able to walk, talk...
Kisses, Carmen.
Friday, January 7, 2011
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