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What Is Geography Flashcards

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What is environmental geography

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The study of how nature impacts people and how people impact nature. Example- habitats

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What is physical geography

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The study of nature such as rivers and natural disasters

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What is human geography

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Where people live and how they develop a living.
Example- deforestation

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What is a continent

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Large land masses

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What is an ocean

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Large body of sea water

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What’s the difference between seas and oceans

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Seas are much smaller and surrounded by land

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Name all 7 continents

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Asia
Africa
North and South America
Antarctica
Europe
Australia

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Name all 5 oceans

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Artic
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Southern

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How many degrees in the Artic Circle

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66 degrees North

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How many degrees in the Antarctic Circle

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66 degrees South

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What degrees are the north and South Pole

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90 degrees N/S

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What is the longitude line that is 0 degrees

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Prime meridian

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What is the line that is 180 degrees from the Prime Meridian

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International Date Line

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What does the Prime Meridian do

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Decides the time zone

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What does OS mean

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Ordinance survey

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What is the purpose of OS symbols

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You can’t fit all of the words in so you swap it out for symbols instead that are understood

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What corner do you look for in a map

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The bottom left

18
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What methods do you use to show relief

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Contour Lines, Spot heights and Layer shadings

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What are contour lines?

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They join places with the same height by lines in meters. The closer the lines are the steeper it is but the further away they are the flatter it is

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How are spot heights shown?

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The highest point is a triangle with a black dot in it with the height next to it.
Other heights are given by a dot

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What is layer shading?

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Layer shading is where different heights are shown by different colours using a key. Brown is usually high and green is low

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