What makes an exceptional Geographer? Flashcards
What is Geography?
Geography is about Earth’s features and how people live on it. It looks at maps, landscapes, and how humans affect the environment.
Human Geography
Human geography is about how people live and work in different places. It looks at things like where people live, how they move around, and how they use the land.
Physical geography
Physical geography is about Earth’s natural features like mountains, weather, and ecosystems. It looks at how these things work and how they affect each other.
Environmental Geography
Environmental geography is about how humans and nature interact. It looks at pollution, conservation, climate change, and ways to take care of the environment.
Define: sustainability
the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Define: pesticides
a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
Give one example of Human Geography
Population
Settlements
Culture
Quality of life
Traffic
People
What does PEEL stand for?
Point, evidence, explain and link
What does IDEAL stand for when analysing photographs?
Identify, describe, explain, apply and link
Give one example of Physical Geography
Earthquakes
Rivers
Weather
Coasts
Mountains
What do the 5W 1H stand for?
Who
What
Where
Why
When
How
What region of Japan do we live in?
Kanto
Name the four main islands of Japan.
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu
Give one example of Environmental Geography
Pollution
The destruction of habitats.
Climate change
Recycling
Global warming
What three things does every map need?
Key
Scale
Title
