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Flashcards by Olivia Gniadek, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Olivia Gniadek
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is a direction | gives you the direction from one place to the other using a 16 point compass. Direction in mapping only gives you the general direction |
| What is a bearing | A bearing gives you the accurate direction using the compass rose and can be divided into a 360 degrees |
| Area references | 4 figure grid reference |
| grid references | 6 figure grid reference |
| contour lines | show height of land |
| cross sections | provide sideways glance on the landscape |
| What is Sustainability | Sustainability is something that is able to be maintained at a certain rate or level |
| Climate change | Climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns |
| Evidence of Climate change | The 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 |
| Impacts of climate change | sea level rise, hotter temperatures |
| Greenhouse effect | The 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 |
| Enhanced Greenhouse effect | Also 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 |
| Urban Heat Island effect | Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a city or metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas |
| Settlement and Site | The piece of land upon which a settlement is built is the settlement site. |
| Settlement Hierarchy | |
| Urbanization | Urbanization means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas. |
| Slums | A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people. |
| Urban Sprawl | A 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 |
| What is Well being | The state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy. |
| What 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. |
| What is a sacred city | Holy 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 |
| What is a market city | A 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. |
| What is development | The process of developing or being developed. |
| What is Conflict | A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Length: various lengths Scale: from small to large Causes: Miscommunication, Misunderstandings Frustration, Stress And Burnout |
| Who is an Refugee | a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. |
| Who is an Asylum Seeker | A person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another. |
| Names of Housing Development | Blue stone and Lightsview |
| Burgess Map | |
| What is the refugee convention | It is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who is a refugee, |
| What is a topographic Map | A 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. |
| How do you read a distorted map e.g aids map | The skinnier the country is the lesser chance it has of people developing aids |
| Greenhouse Effect Diagram | |
| Countries in Asia Pacific | |
| When there’s conflict, like in Somalia, what happens socially? | People die, lose family, lose homes. |
| What happens economically? | People lose jobs, farms, businesses. |
| What happens environmentally? | Land gets destroyed or polluted by bombs, fire, etc |
| If 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. |
| There 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. |
| A case study of sulfur mining in Indonesia | The 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 |
| Population pyramids | |
| What makes different countries in Asia physically different. | Islands, volcanoes, rainforest, rainfall |
| What is Qualitative | Qualitative means using words |
| What is Quantitative | Quantitative means using numbers. |
| What 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. |
| What different things do humans use land for? | Housing, farms, airports, forests |
| Push and Pull factors of Urbanization | What ‘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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