The cards Question What does a line of latitude show about a place? Tap to flip Answer How far north or south it is. Question What does a line of longitude show about a place? Tap to flip Answer How far east or west it is. Question What is a thematic map? Tap to flip Answer A map that shows one particular geographical phenomenon, e.g. population density or air temperature. Question Do atlases mostly use large scale or small scale maps? Tap to flip Answer Small scale maps: they cover a large area in limited detail. Question What does a large scale map show? Tap to flip Answer A large amount of detail over a small area. Question What are the four cardinal points? Tap to flip Answer North, south, east and west. Question On a map, what are eastings? Tap to flip Answer Vertical lines running north to south that divide the map into east and west parts. Question On a map, what are northings? Tap to flip Answer Horizontal lines running west to east that divide the map into north and south parts. Question Why does a six figure grid reference refer to more than one point in the UK? Tap to flip Answer It is only specific within one 100 km² square of the OS National Grid, and each such square has its own two-letter code. Question On an OS map, what can the scale be used to calculate? Tap to flip Answer The distance between two features or places. Question In geography, what is relief? Tap to flip Answer The shape of the land. Question What do contour lines join? Tap to flip Answer Points of the same height. Question What is a spot height? Tap to flip Answer A point marked on a map showing a particular height. Question Why are some contour lines on a map not labelled with their height? Tap to flip Answer In very steep areas the contours are close together, so there is no space; their height can be worked out from the lines around them. Question Describing a settlement on a map, what does 'linear' mean? Tap to flip Answer It resembles a line. Question Describing a settlement on a map, what does 'nucleated' mean? Tap to flip Answer It is wrapped around a central point. Question What does a river's sinuosity describe? Tap to flip Answer How straight or curvy it is. Question What is a cross section of a landscape? Tap to flip Answer An imaginary vertical slice through it. Question How does an annotation differ from a label? Tap to flip Answer A label is a written description; an annotation is a detailed description or explanation of something you might not be able to see. Question Does a sketch map need to be an artistic picture of a place? Tap to flip Answer No. It uses simple, clean lines in plan view to show the main features. Question What is an oblique aerial photograph? Tap to flip Answer An aerial photograph taken with the camera at an angle to Earth's surface. Question What is a vertical aerial photograph? Tap to flip Answer A photograph taken straight down from the air. Question How does a map differ from an aerial photograph? Tap to flip Answer A map selects what to show using symbols; an aerial photograph shows everything without selecting. Question What is discrete data? Tap to flip Answer Data that can be arranged into exclusive categories. Question What is continuous data? Tap to flip Answer Data that sits on a continuum from low to high values. Question What is proportional data? Tap to flip Answer Data showing the relative amount of something as part of a whole. Question Give one type of graph used to present frequency data. Tap to flip Answer E.g. a bar chart, a pictogram or a histogram. Question Give one way to present proportional data. Tap to flip Answer A pie chart or a percentage bar. Question What is bivariate data? Tap to flip Answer Data for two variables, where one is believed to influence the other. Question In a data set, what is an anomaly? Tap to flip Answer A value that does not seem to follow the general pattern or trend. Question What is interpolation? Tap to flip Answer Estimating unknown values within a data set from other values in it. Question What is extrapolation? Tap to flip Answer Estimating unknown values beyond a data set from the trend of the known values. Question What is the more likely cause of an anomaly than an error in collecting the data? Tap to flip Answer A variable that was not investigated influencing that value. Question What is univariate data? Tap to flip Answer Data that represents values against one variable. Question Is the mean more reliable than the median or the mode? Tap to flip Answer No. They have different purposes, and none is more reliable than the others. Question What is spatial data? Tap to flip Answer Data assigned to a specific location. Question What is choropleth shading? Tap to flip Answer Using the density of colour on a map to show the density of data. Question What is an isoline? Tap to flip Answer A line on a map joining points that have the same value. Question What three kinds of feature can show spatial data on a map? Tap to flip Answer Points, lines and polygons. Question What does GIS stand for? Tap to flip Answer Geographical Information System. Question In GIS, what is a basemap? Tap to flip Answer A standalone foundational map used as the background for other data layers in a webmap. Question In GIS, what is a buffer? Tap to flip Answer An area generated for a specified distance around a point, line or polygon feature. Question In GIS, why is a filter used? Tap to flip Answer To select data in a layer so spatial patterns show more clearly without cluttering the webmap. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Geographical skills Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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