Around the World
The largest continent by area
What is Asia?
GIS stands for this.
What is Geographic Information System?
The capital city of South Australia.
What is Adelaide?
GPS stands for this
What is global positioning system
A natural hazard measured in the richter scale.
What is Earthquakes?
The capital city of Canada
What is Ottawa?
Urbanisation is this.
What is the growth of towns and cities?
The Australian state known as the sunshine state.
What is QLD?
The direction opposite to SW.
What is NE?
Molten rock is called this once it reaches Earth's surface
What is Lava?
A country that starts with the letter A, but does not end with the letter A.
What is Afghanistan?
Name one renewable energy source.
What is
Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, etc.
In the Gold Coast hinterland, it sits nearly 1000 metres above sea level and you can feed the rosella's.
What is O'Reilly's?
The type of map that shows height and elevation
What is topographic?
Part of the cyclone that is calm
What is the eye?
The seven continents. Name them.
What are:
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia/Oceania
The term for people moving from one place to another,
What is migration?
This desert covers much of WA and SA.
What is the Great Victorian desert?
There are 180 degrees west and east of this line.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The difference between a hazard and a disaster. A hazard is
A hazard is a potential threat. a disaster occurs when people are seriously impacted
3 countries that border China.
What are:
India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Geographers often use satellite imagery for this.
What are observations and analysis of spatial patterns and changes over time.
The largest sand island in the world.
What is Fraser Island?
A map scale of 1:100,000 means 1 cm on the map equals how many kilometres in reality?
What is 1km?
The shift in plates where they move past each other.
What is transformative?