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Geography Exam Revision
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- 1What is a directiongives you the direction from one place to the other using a 16 point compass.
Direction in mapping only gives you the general direction - 2What is a bearingA bearing gives you the accurate direction using the compass rose and can be divided into a 360 degrees
- 3Area references4 figure grid reference
- 4grid references6 figure grid reference
- 5contour linesshow height of land
- 6cross sectionsprovide sideways glance on the landscape
- 7What is SustainabilitySustainability is something that is able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
- 8Climate changeClimate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns
- 9Evidence of Climate changeThe Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Alaska covered up to 2.5 million square kilometers in 1990. However due to the dry weather conditions the ice sheet faded and raised water levels
- 10Impacts of climate changesea level rise, hotter temperatures
- 11Greenhouse effectThe greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth's surface. When the rays hit the earths atmosphere some rays are reflected back into space, whereas the ones that didn't reflect are re-radiated by greenhouse gases
- 12Enhanced Greenhouse effectAlso known as climate change/global warming, is the impact on the climate from the additional heat retained due to the increased amounts of Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse gases
- 13Urban Heat Island effectUrban Heat Island (UHI) is a city or metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas
- 14Settlement and SiteThe piece of land upon which a settlement is built is the settlement site.
- 15Settlement Hierarchy
- 16UrbanizationUrbanization means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.
- 17SlumsA squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
- 18Urban SprawlA situation in which large stores, groups of houses, etc., are built in an area around a city that formerly had few people living in it
- 19What is Well beingThe state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
- 20What is the Human Development Index (HDI)The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
- 21What is a sacred cityHoly city is a term applied to many cities, all of them central to the history or faith of specific religions.
e.g. Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Qana - 22What is a market cityA town that holds markets
e.g
Provence France, Bangkok Thailand, Istanbul Turkey, Paris
For centuries, local government established market laws and constructed special buildings and spaces that demonstrated its commitment to protect citizens from spoiled food, high prices, food shortages, and merchandise that did not meet standard weight or measure. - 23What is developmentThe process of developing or being developed.
- 24What is ConflictA serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
Length: various lengths
Scale: from small to large
Causes: Miscommunication, Misunderstandings
Frustration, Stress And Burnout - 25Who is an Refugeea person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
- 26Who is an Asylum SeekerA person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another.
- 27Names of Housing DevelopmentBlue stone and Lightsview
- 28Burgess Map
- 29What is the refugee conventionIt is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who is a refugee,
- 30What is a topographic MapA topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually now using contour lines, but historically using a variety of methods.
- 31How do you read a distorted map e.g aids mapThe skinnier the country is the lesser chance it has of people developing aids
- 32Greenhouse Effect Diagram
- 33Countries in Asia Pacific
- 34When there’s conflict, like in Somalia, what happens socially?People die, lose family, lose homes.
- 35What happens economically?People lose jobs, farms, businesses.
- 36What happens environmentally?Land gets destroyed or polluted by bombs, fire, etc
- 37If you were given statistics that said the average age of people what 50 years – what would that mean?That people didn’t live in very good conditions because they died at an early age.
- 38There might be other examples though, like if the literacy rate was 40%.That would mean that people don’t have access to school and therefore can’t learn to read and write. Showing they don’t live in very good conditions.
- 39A case study of sulfur mining in IndonesiaThe Sulfur miners in Indonesia carry 70 - 90kg on their backs on their way back up to the volcano and work from 6:00am to 2:30 pm. Due to this the miners life expectancy barely reaches 50 years.
This is because after the walk their backs are quite damaged and their health is quite poor - 40Population pyramids
- 41What makes different countries in Asia physically different.Islands, volcanoes, rainforest, rainfall
- 42What is QualitativeQualitative means using words
- 43What is QuantitativeQuantitative means using numbers.
- 44What information is there to tell you if people living in a country have good well being or not.Do they have jobs – the unemployment rate. What is the literacy rate – how many can read and write. Are there hospitals. Do they live in cities or the country. Do they live in slums.
- 45What different things do humans use land for?Housing, farms, airports, forests
- 46Push and Pull factors of UrbanizationWhat ‘pushes’ people out of certain areas (usually the country - e.g. Lack of employment or education opportunities
What ‘pulls’ people into certain areas (usually cities - e.g. Employment)
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