

2.4.The Earth's internal structure.
Let's see this video about the Earth's internal structure (the crust, the mantle, the core) with Doctor Binocs.

2.3. Mapping.
This time the challenge consists in drawing a digital map with Google MAPS with several layers. The layers will be introduced at the same...


2.2. Giants of the planet.
Click on the following image and discover stories and information on the tallest mountains in the world.


2.1 The tallest mountains in the world!
The surface of the continents is not smooth or uniform. Features of land relief includes mountains, planes, plateaus and valleys. A...


1.7. GPS devices. What are they useful for?
A GPS navigation device (Global Positioning System) is a device that receives information from several satellites and accurately...


1.6. Time zones.
The Earth rotates on its axis and moves counter-clockwise, this means that the Earth rotates from west to east. It takes approximately...


1.5. More about map projections
There is not a perfect map projection. Before we choose a type of map projection, it is important to decide what we want to learn about....


1.4. Map projections.
What an orange hides! The Earth is an almost perfect sphere but if we want to represent it in a flat surface to study some places in...

1.3. Where does Burt Simpson live?
Hi everybody. I am Virginia and I live in Valencia. I suppose that most of you, if not all, live in Valencia as well. But, where do we...

1.2. Where are we?
When we want to know the exact location of a place on the Earth, we need its latitude and longitude. Latitude is the distance between a...