Geographical Skills Flashcards
What is the scale on an Ordance Survey (OS) map?
1:50,000
Where is North on an OS map?
Always at the top
What are the three S’s?
Site, Situation, Shape
How do you describe ‘Site’?
SAGA IT!
- Slope: gentle/steep
- Aspect: NESW facing
- Ground conditions: e.g. Floodplains
- Altitude: height above sea level
How do you describe Situation?
Location in relation to other places
How do you describe Shape?
The way the settlement looks from an aerial or plan view
If contour lines are close together, what does it mean?
Steeper slope
If contour lines are further apart, what does it mean?
Gentle slope
What does each contour line represent?
10m
What are the impacts of out of town shopping in the UK?
- Overflow parking
- Takes away visitors from local high streets
What are dispersion graphs useful for?
Comparing the range of two data sets
How do you convert % into degrees for a pie chart?
(360 / 100) x %
What does the national census provide information about?
- Earnings
- Religion
- Job type
- Ethnicity
Why is layering information useful? (GIS Software)
- Easier to share and analyse
- Easier to understand
- It is stored digitally
- Lots of data can be analysed at one time
Who uses GIS?
- Wind Farm Developers: height of land, wind speed, cost of land
- Ambulance Service: age of residents, congestion, ambulance stations, hospitals
- Property Developer: cost of land, flooding geology
- Estate Agent: value of properties, avg. income and age
