Geographical Concepts

Question 1

What is the study of Geography?

Answer 1

It is the structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of places that make up this world

Question 2

What is area reference?

Answer 2

4 digit grid reference

Question 3

What is the 4 digit grid reference?

Answer 3

Area reference

Question 4

What is Grid reference?

Answer 4

6 digit grid reference

Question 5

What is the 6 digit grid reference?

Answer 5

Grid reference

Question 6

What is the purpose of grid reference compared to area reference?

Answer 6

More precise grid reference

Question 7

What is absolute location?

Answer 7

A grid reference or coordinates

Question 8

What are the ten key Geographic concepts?

Answer 8

Place, scale, distance, distribution, movement, region, process, change, spatial association, sustainability

Question 9

What is Absolute or linear distance?

Answer 9

Distance measured in units

Question 10

What is psychological distance?

Answer 10

The way distance is perceived

Question 11

What is cultural distance?

Answer 11

Social differences between areas

Question 12

Distance measured in units is known as?

Answer 12

Absolute or linear distance

Question 13

The way distance is perceived is known as?

Answer 13

Psychological distance

Question 14

Social differences between areas is known as?

Answer 14

Cultural distance

Question 15

What is distribution?

Answer 15

The arrangement of phenomena in space or time

Question 16

The arrangement of phenomena in space or time is known as?

Answer 16

Distribution

Question 17

How do geographers identify distribution?

Answer 17

By examining organisation, arrangements and density of phenomena

Question 18

What is movement?

Answer 18

The change or expansion in location of one or more phenomena from its original location

Question 19

The change or expansion in location of one or more phenomena from its original location is known as?

Answer 19

Movement

Question 20

What does the concept of movement take into account?

Answer 20

Nature, distance, direction, method, frequency, volume and magnitude

Question 21

What is place?

Answer 21

Parts of earths surface that are identified and given meaning by people

Question 22

Parts of earths surface that are identified and given meaning by people is known as a?

Answer 22

Place

Question 23

How large and small can a “place” be?

Answer 23

Any size as long as it is a geographic location on the earths surface

Question 24

What is process?

Answer 24

An identifiable series of actions or steps, leading to change or preservation of phenomena

Question 25

An identifiable series of actions or steps, leading to change or preservation of phenomena is known as?

Answer 25

Process

Question 26

What is region?

Answer 26

Region is a definable area of the earths surface that contains one or more characteristics that distinguish it from neighbouring areas

Question 27

What is a definable area of the earths surface that contains one or more characteristics that distinguish it from neighbouring areas?

Answer 27

A region

Question 28

What does map scale show?

Answer 28

The relation between the measurements on a map, to the measurements in real life

Question 29

The relation between the measurements on a map, to the measurements in real life is known as?

Answer 29

Map scale

Question 30

What is observational scale?

Answer 30

Observational scale is conceptual and refers to the relative size of phenomena and to the size of the areas being studied

Question 31

What scale is conceptual and refers to the relative size of phenomena and to the size of the areas being studied?

Answer 31

observational scale

Question 32

What is spatial association?

Answer 32

The degree to where two or more phenomena are similarly arranged over space

Question 33

The degree to where two or more phenomena are similarly arranged over space is known as?

Answer 33

Spatial association

Question 34

What does spatial association compare?

Answer 34

Distribution patterns and the interconnection between them

Question 35

What is sustainability?

Answer 35

The capacity of the environment to continue to support life

Question 36

The capacity of the environment to continue to support life is known as?

Answer 36

Sustainability

Question 37

What is Latitude?

Answer 37

Circles the globe in an east-west direction and measures how far north or south a point lies from the equator

Question 38

Circles the globe in an east-west direction and measures how far north or south a point lies from the equator is known as?

Answer 38

Latitude

Question 39

What are the degrees of latitude?

Answer 39

0-90N or 0-90S

Question 40

What is Longitude?

Answer 40

Circles the globe from N-S and measures how far east or west a point is from the prime meridian

Question 41

What is the line that Circles the globe from N-S and measures how far east or west a point is from the prime meridian?

Answer 41

Longitude

Question 42

What are the degrees of Longitude?

Answer 42

0-180W and 0-180E

Question 43

East of Pm is?

Answer 43

Negative

Question 44

West of Pm is?

Answer 44

Positive