The cards Question What is physical geography the study of? Tap to flip Answer The Earth's natural features and processes, such as landforms like rivers and coastlines. Question What does human geography study? Tap to flip Answer How societies, cultures and economies differ around the world. Question Which branch of geography studies the human impact on the natural environment? Tap to flip Answer Environmental geography. Question What is locational knowledge? Tap to flip Answer Knowledge about places and the features within those locations. Question Is geography only about learning the natural world? Tap to flip Answer No. It has many aspects and includes learning about society as well as the natural world. Question How many continents are there? Tap to flip Answer Seven. Question How many oceans are there? Tap to flip Answer Five. Question In which continent is the UK? Tap to flip Answer Europe. Question What is an ocean? Tap to flip Answer A very big area of salt water between the continents. Question Which acronym can be used to describe a location? Tap to flip Answer CLOCC. Question What is a GIS (geographic information system)? Tap to flip Answer A computer system that captures and displays geographic data to help understand spatial patterns. Question In a GIS, what is a layer? Tap to flip Answer A set of data you can view on the map so that geographical patterns can be analysed. Question Lines of latitude are measured in degrees north or south of which line? Tap to flip Answer The Equator. Question Lines of longitude are measured in degrees east or west of which meridian? Tap to flip Answer The Greenwich Meridian. Question What is the Prime Meridian? Tap to flip Answer The line of longitude at 0 degrees, from which other lines of longitude are measured east and west. Question At what latitude is the Equator? Tap to flip Answer 0° latitude, an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole. Question Do lines of latitude run horizontally or vertically? Tap to flip Answer Horizontally (lines of longitude run vertically). Question What is a map projection? Tap to flip Answer A way of showing the roughly spherical Earth as a flat map, which always involves some distortion. Question Which representation of Earth shows landmasses in the correct shape and relative size? Tap to flip Answer A globe. Question What is the Ordnance Survey (OS)? Tap to flip Answer The national mapping agency for Great Britain. Question What does the key on a map do? Tap to flip Answer It explains what the different symbols or colours on the map mean. Question Do maps always use the same symbols? Tap to flip Answer No. The symbols differ depending on the scale of the map, e.g. 1:25 000 and 1:50 000 OS maps. Question What are contours on an OS map? Tap to flip Answer Lines that show areas of equal height. Question What does a spot height on a map give? Tap to flip Answer The exact height of a place in metres. Question What does it mean when contours are far apart? Tap to flip Answer The land is flat. Question What does it mean when contours are close together? Tap to flip Answer The land is steep. Question What is a spur? Tap to flip Answer An elongated ridge that extends downwards from a hill or mountain. Question What is used as the baseline for measuring the height of the land? Tap to flip Answer Sea level, the average level of the world's oceans. Question On a map grid, what are the horizontal lines called? Tap to flip Answer Northings. Question On a map grid, what are the vertical lines called? Tap to flip Answer Eastings. Question In a grid reference, do eastings or northings come first? Tap to flip Answer Eastings come first, then northings. Question Why use a six-figure grid reference instead of a four-figure one? Tap to flip Answer To locate a feature more accurately. Question What does a small-scale map show? Tap to flip Answer A large area with little detail, e.g. a world map. Question What does a large-scale map show? Tap to flip Answer A smaller area in more detail, e.g. a town or local area. Question What does a scale bar show? Tap to flip Answer How distances on the map compare with the real distances on the ground. Question In a geographical enquiry, what is a hypothesis? Tap to flip Answer A statement that can be tested. Question What is fieldwork? Tap to flip Answer Investigating the outdoors with geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data. Question What does an environmental quality survey assess? Tap to flip Answer Factors that affect the environment in one location, such as cleanliness and green space. Question Does fieldwork have to take place in an unfamiliar location? Tap to flip Answer No. Fieldwork can take place anywhere. Question What is the best way to show spatial data? Tap to flip Answer On a map. Question What do all graphs need so they can be read easily? Tap to flip Answer A title and labelled axes. Question What is the purpose of data presentation? Tap to flip Answer To help geographers identify patterns and relationships in the data. Question What is subjective data? Tap to flip Answer Data based on opinion rather than facts. Question In fieldwork, what is an evaluation? Tap to flip Answer A judgement on your fieldwork and on the accuracy and reliability of your results. Question What does a conclusion do in an investigation? Tap to flip Answer It summarises your main findings. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Geography: what makes a geographer? 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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Show the other sources (10) Primary source Fieldwork: Presenting survey data (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating survey data (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Locational knowledge of the world (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Using a GIS to locate and analyse places around the world (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Latitude and longitude (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Different map projections (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Features of an OS map (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Showing height and relief on OS maps (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Four and Six Figure Grid References (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Scale and distance on OS maps (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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