Resources
Water
Places
Graphs / Maps
Misc
100
Raw materials that occur in the environment and which are necessary or useful to people. They include soil, water, mineral deposits, fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), plants and animals.
What are natural resources?
100
rain, sleet, hail, snow and other forms of water falling from the sky when water particles in clouds become too heavy
What is precipitation?
100
Natural features (mountains, lakes, hills, forests) Human features (mosques, roads, buildings, houses) Combination of the two
What are the characteristics of a place?
100
A map that provides detailed and accurate information of features that appear on the Earth's surface.
What is a topographic map?
100
the reversal (every few years) of the more usual direction of winds and surface currents across the Pacific Ocean. This change causes drought in Australia and heavy rain in South America
What is El Nino?
200
There are two types of natural resources.
What are non-renewable and renewable resources?
200
The water in freshwater, lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers.
What is blue water?
200
Positive aspects of a place; reasons that attract people to come and live in a place
What is a pull factor?
200
A drawing or map that contains our memory of the layout and distribution of features in a place.
What is a mental map?
200
the change from year to year in the amount of rainfall in a given location
What is rainfall variability?
300
Consumed by use (fossil fuels, coal, oil, natural gas) Recyclable (aluminium,gold, lead, silver, tin, mercury)
What are non-renewable resources?
300
Water that is stored in the soil or that stays on top of the soil or in vegetation
What is green water?
300
Reasons that encourage people to leave a place and go somewhere else
What is a push factor?
300
A graphical tool that shows links between ideas, or concepts.
What is a concept diagram/ map?
300
Geographical concepts help you to make sense of your world. By using these concepts you can both investigate and understand the world you live in, and you can use them to try to imagine a different world. There are seven major concepts.
What is SPICESS (Space, Place, Interconnection, Change, Environment, Sustainability, Scale)
400
Constant supply (solar energy, tides, waves, water, air) Supply can be affected by human activity (fish, forests, soil, water, underground water)
What are renewable resources?
400
the process by which water is converted from a liquid to a gas and thereby moves from land and surface water into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
400
Describes a place that is distant from major population centres.
What is a remote place?
400
A combination of letters and numbers that help us locate specific positions on a map.
What are alphanumeric grid references?
400
People and things are connected to other people and things in their own and other places, and understanding these connections helps us to understand how and why places are changing.
What is interconnection?
500
a process that removes salt from sea water
What is desalination?
500
a situation that occurs in a country with less than 1000 cubic metres of renewable fresh water per person.
What is water stress?
500
Describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work and then fly home
What is FIFO (fly in fly out)?
500
Graphs that show climate data for a particular place over a 12-month period
What is a climate graph?
500
Using the time to better understand a place, an environment, a spatial pattern or geographical problem.
What is change?
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