Term 1 Geography
Key Concepts
Interconnection
Sustainability
Environment
Change
Space
Scale
Place
A place is a part of the Earths surface that is identified and given meaning by people.
Geographers use the concept of space when investigating the way that things are arranged on the Earths surface.
Environment means the living and non-living components and elements that make up an area, and the ways they are organised into a system.
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.
Developing ways to ensure the earths resources be used and managed responsibility so they can be maintained for future generations.
The earth is constantly changing. These changes can be a result of natural forces and human activity.
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.
Mapping Skills
Continents and Oceans
Key features of a map
Directions
Bearings
Area References and Grid References
Physical and Cultural features on a map
Latitude and Longitude
Environmental Change
Oceans
Continents
North America
South America
Australia
Europe
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Border
Orientation
Legend
Title
Scale
South - 180 degrees
East - 90 degrees
West - 270 degrees
North - 0/360 degrees
Area References
Grid References
Area Reference is a 4 figure number to provide coordinates for a whole grid square, the eastings come first and northings come second
Grid Reference is a 6 figure number to provide exact coordinates in a grid square.
Physical features
Biodiversity loss
Degrading water
Degrading the atmosphere
Degrading land
Degraded land is land that has lost some degree of its natural productivity due to human-caused processes
manmade chemicals emitted into the atmosphere that deplete the atmosphere layer.
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
Biodiversity loss is when there is a decrease in the number, type, or variety of living organisms within an environment
Environmental Change
Climate change
Lake Chad
Invasive species
Salinity
Climate change is the long term permanent shift in some or all parts of the weather conditions experienced in an area.
4 S's
Sinks
Services
Sources
Spirituality
Natural products that can be used or converted by humans for our use
Processes in the natural environment that absorb our waste.
Things that are done for us by the natural environment that don’t produce consumable resources.
The personal relationships that human beings have with the environment.
Salinity is the movement and concentration of salt in the landscape.
Cultural features
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.
Natural features such as mountains or rivers
Manmade features such as buildings or dams
An invasive species is an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native
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