Term 1 2022 Flashcards
What are the 3 types of geography?
Human, Physical and Environmental Geography.
What is human geography?
The affect of humans on the Earth’s surface (anything man-made links to human geography).
What is physical geography?
The natural features of our planet (mountains, trees, lakes and more).
What is environmental geography?
The impact we have on our planet (global warming, pollution, the destruction of habitat and more).
What are 5 main types of maps?
Physical, political, ordnance survey, climate and economic / resource maps.
What is a physical map?
A map that shows natural features of the world such as mountain ranges and rivers. It doesn’t show country boundaries and has realistic colour, varying on the temperature.
What is a ordnance survey map?
A map that shows roads and mostly used for planning routes in land vehicles.
What is a political map?
A map that ignores natural features and focuses on names boundaries between countries.
What is a climate map?
A map that looks like an ordinary map but also shows the state of weather in different places.
What is an economic / resource map?
A map that shows the economic state of the given place.
What is a scale?
The ratio between the distance on the map corresponding to the distance on the ground, for example, 1:100,000 scale means 1cm on the map is 1km in real life.
What is a plan?
A type of drawing that shows the layout of a property from above, that are drawn to scale.
What is a sketch map?
A simple sketch of a place (not drawn to scale) to show a simple route from point A to B. They have an aerial view.
What is a field sketch?
A rough sketch of what a person can see in front of them in an area, a first person view.
What is the problem with maps?
They cant be accurately turned into a rectangle (or 2D overall), as you cant turn a sphere into a rectangle. Every 2D map isn’t 100% accurate. Eg: on 2D maps some countries seem bigger than other countries, although they aren’t, for example Greenland is 1/14 the size of Africa, but they look the same on a 2D map.
