Chapter. 1

Question 1

What is Geography?

Answer 1

Geography is the study of the world around you.

Question 2

What are cartographers?

Answer 2

People who created maps

Question 3

What do maps allow people to do?

Answer 3

Navigate

Question 4

What is Irelands national mapping agency

Answer 4

OSI

Question 5

What does OSI mean

Answer 5

Ordnance Survery Ireland

Question 6

What do OSI produce

Answer 6

Printed and digital maps of Ireland

Question 7

What is Discovery Series

Answer 7

A series of maps produced by the OSI

Question 8

What is the scale?

Answer 8

The scale of a map is the ratio of the distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.

Question 9

What is the OSI scale

Answer 9

1:50,000. this means every centimeter on the map is equal to 50,000 cm/ 500m on the ground. Therefore every 2cm on an OSI map is 1km

Question 10

What is a ratio

Answer 10

How much of one thing is compared to another

Question 11

What is the national grid

Answer 11

The national grid is used to locate places or regions on OS maps.

Question 12

Each square on the national grid measures?

Answer 12

100km² and is represented by a letter of the alphabet

Question 13

What’s the only letter not used in the nation grid

Answer 13

I

Question 14

These sauates have vertical and horizontal lines called

Answer 14

Eastington and northings

Question 15

What are grid references

Answer 15

Grid references are used to locate and area or an exact location on an os map

Question 16

On a 4 grid map what’s the scale

Answer 16

1km²

Question 17

How do you identify height on an os map

Answer 17

Colour contours, triangulation, pillars, spot heights and summit heights

Question 18

What do the colours mean

Answer 18

Green: lowlands areas of up to 200m
And as the colour changes from green, to light cream to light brown to dark brown, it indicates an upland area

Question 19

Contour lines

Answer 19

Lines showing areas of equal height. The height in meters is written on them. They are placed 10m apart (height). The closer the lines the steeper the slope.

Question 20

Triangulation pillars

Answer 20

These triangle shapes show where there is a concrete pillar used by map makers. They are usually found on mountain peaks or hilltops. The height of the mountain is given in metres beside the triangle.

Question 21

What is a 6 figure grid reference

Answer 21

It’s used to pinpoint the exact location of something on a map

Question 22

What is the job of a four figure grid reference

Answer 22

This kind of grid reference is used to locate an area or a single grid square

Question 23

Summit heights Colour:green:

Answer 23

Below 400m

Question 24

Summit heights Colour:orange

Answer 24

400m-599m

Question 25

Summit heights Colour:Brown

Answer 25

600m and above

Question 26

Spot heights

Answer 26

These can be found anywhere on a map showing height in metres of a particular place. They are represented by a small, black dot with a number beside it.

Question 27

Summit height

Answer 27

This shows the height of the summit or peak in colour. The three different colours- green, orange and brown all indicate what height the summit is

Question 28

Direction

Answer 28

Directions are usually given using the compass cardinal points of the compass - north east south west

Question 29

Other cardinal points

Answer 29

In between the cardinal points are other compass points, they are - N: NNE, NE, ENE. E: ESE, SE, SSE. S: SSW, SW, WSW. W: WNW, NW, NNW

Question 30

What is data

Answer 30

Data is a collection of facts.

Question 31

Data is presented in

Answer 31

Bar charts, pie charts, trend graphs