What is Geography? Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is an environmental impact?
The effect of human activity or products on the environment, whether its positive or negative.
What is a human impact?
How humans develop and how they develop a living.
What is a physical impact?
The study of nature such as rivers and rainforests.
Give an example of an environmental impact.
Pollution, water cycle and habitat.
Give an example of a human impact.
Cultures and fast fashion.
Give an example of a physical impact.
Oceans, volcanoes and rivers.
What are the ordinal directions?
North, East, South and West.
What is a continent?
Large, continuous land masses.
What is an ocean?
A large body of open sea water.
What is the difference between an ocean and a sea?
Seas are usually smaller and are usually located where the land and ocean meet. Typically, seas are partially enclosed by land.
What are the 7 continents?
Asia, Africa, North and South America, Antarctica, Europe and Oceania.
What are the 5 oceans?
Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern.
What are the 2 hemispheres?
Northern and Southern hemisphere.
Which way do lines of latitude go?
They go horizontally around the world.
Which way do lines of longitude go?
Vertically from north to south.
What are the 5 different lines of latitude?
The Arctic Circle, the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
What meridian goes from the North to the South Pole?
The Prime Meridian.
What does the Prime Meridian run through?
Greenwich, London.
How are lines of longitude and latitude useful?
They allow us to give an exact location for any place in the world.
What is a grid reference?
An address on a map that identifies in which grid square on the map a place is located.
What does a 4 grid reference have?
4 digits( e.g- 7242) and the first two tell you how far left or right to look on the map whilst the last two tell you how far up or down to look on the map.
What corner do you have to look for when plotting 4 grid references?
The bottom left corner of the square.
What are the rules for plotting 6 grid references?
Look at the line of latitude and determine what part of the square it’s in and do the same for the line of longitude.
What is relief?
Relief describes the shape of the land including how high, steep or gentle the slopes are.
