What Is Geography Flashcards
What is environmental geography
The study of how nature impacts people and how people impact nature. Example- habitats
What is physical geography
The study of nature such as rivers and natural disasters
What is human geography
Where people live and how they develop a living.
Example- deforestation
What is a continent
Large land masses
What is an ocean
Large body of sea water
What’s the difference between seas and oceans
Seas are much smaller and surrounded by land
Name all 7 continents
Asia
Africa
North and South America
Antarctica
Europe
Australia
Name all 5 oceans
Artic
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Southern
How many degrees in the Artic Circle
66 degrees North
How many degrees in the Antarctic Circle
66 degrees South
What degrees are the north and South Pole
90 degrees N/S
What is the longitude line that is 0 degrees
Prime meridian
What is the line that is 180 degrees from the Prime Meridian
International Date Line
What does the Prime Meridian do
Decides the time zone
What does OS mean
Ordinance survey
What is the purpose of OS symbols
You can’t fit all of the words in so you swap it out for symbols instead that are understood
What corner do you look for in a map
The bottom left
What methods do you use to show relief
Contour Lines, Spot heights and Layer shadings
What are contour lines?
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
How are spot heights shown?
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
What is layer shading?
Layer shading is where different heights are shown by different colours using a key. Brown is usually high and green is low
