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Term 1 Geography - Coggle Diagram
Term 1 Geography
Key Concepts
Interconnection
Geographers use the concept of interconnection to better understand the links between places and people, and how these interconnections affect the environment and the way we live.
Sustainability
Developing ways to ensure the earths resources be used and managed responsibility so they can be maintained for future generations.
Environment
Environment means the living and non-living components and elements that make up an area, and the ways they are organised into a system.
Change
The earth is constantly changing. These changes can be a result of natural forces and human activity.
Space
Geographers use the concept of space when investigating the way that things are arranged on the Earths surface.
Scale
Geographers study things that take place on many different spatial levels. They use the concept of scale to look for explanations and outcomes at different levels.
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Mapping Skills
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Latitude and Longitude
Latitude and longitude are a system of lines used to describe the location of any place on Earth. Lines of latitude run in an east-west direction across Earth. Lines of longitude run in a north-south direction. Although these are only imaginary lines, they appear on maps and globes as if they actually existed.
Environmental Change
Biodiversity loss
Biodiversity loss is when there is a decrease in the number, type, or variety of living organisms within an environment
Degrading water
Water degradation is the misuse and also the pollution of water supplies. Often, individuals throughout the world have to deal with either limited water supplies, or polluted water, often causes by human actions
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Degrading land
Degraded land is land that has lost some degree of its natural productivity due to human-caused processes
Environmental Change
Climate change
Climate change is the long term permanent shift in some or all parts of the weather conditions experienced in an area.
Lake Chad
Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in central Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank by as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998
Invasive species
An invasive species is an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native
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