Concepts 1
Geography that focuses on land forms, vegetation and weather.
Physical Geography
Geography that focuses on settlements, population and economy.
Human Geography
The study of weather and what causes it.
Meterology
This kind of geography looks at how people earn money.
Economic geography.
Shopping Mall - 2 factors
Economic/ Social
A place where humans live and work.
A settlement.
A plant is an example of this.
Vegetation.
a specific spot on Earth?
Absolute Location
The top layer of a rainforest
Emergent
Hospital - 3 factors
Social, Economic, Political
This kind of geography looks at the distribution of people over the earth's surface.
Population geography
Wind is an example of this.
Weather.
A landform - the highest places on earth.
Mountains.
Settlement, population and Economic are examples of what type of geography.
Human geography
State Highway 1 - 3 factors
Social, Economic, political
These are natural things that we use to meet our needs and wants.
Natural resources.
A resource that can only be used once - for example oil or coal.
Non - renewable.
A resource that can be used over and over again.
Renewable.
A landform where water flows over a steep drop and falls to the land below.
Waterfall
Colonial Sites - 3 factors
Social, Historical, Cultural
A term that describes how content people are with their lives and their environment.
Quality of Life.
Harmful substances produced by human activity which spoils the land, water or air.
Pollution
The kind of geography that is used to study why people migrate from one place to another.
Population geography/ Migrational Geo
The activity of managing and protecting the physical environment.
Conservation/ sustainability/ Kaitiakitanga
The ocean - 3 factors
Social, Economic, cultural