Characteristics of GS
Is the place where we all live
What is Geographical Space?
This scale tells us about the characteristics of a place in greater detail.
What is a local scale?
Undulating movement of the Earth’s crust that happens when rock cracks suddenly under pressure.
What is an earthquake?
It’s the uppermost layer of the Earth, and is between 25 and 70 kilometers thick.
What is the continental crust?
Condition that prevents human beings from meeting their needs and from finding opportunities for development.
What is poverty?
We can find the geographic space in maps and other representations by using geographical coordinates.
What is location?
This scale is helpful if we need information about the activities of a state or region of the country
What is a national scale?
Molten, semiliquid rock found at high temperatures beneath the Earth’s crust.
What is magma?
Rocky and rigid blocks that float on top of the asthenosphere.
What are the tectonic plates?
Is when people living in poverty are unable to live decent lives due to the lack of public services like water, drainage, electricity, health care and access to housing and education.
What is social exclusion?
In a geographic space we can find a great variety of forms and processes that interact in different ways.
What is diversity?
This scale tells us how many times the area shown has been reduced in order to show it on a map.
What is a numerical scale?
Examples of these kind of disasters are car accidents, wars, and fire on buildings.
What are human disasters?
Steep-sided prominences that rise at least 300 meters.
What is a mountain?
Problem that people suffers when they do not have enough income to provide food for themselves.
What is hunger?
The geographic space is always changing. This means that there are natural and social transformations.
What is dynamism?
This scale is shown as a ruler divided into segments of one centimeter each and represents the number of kilometers on the land shown in the map.
What is a graphic scale?
Examples of these disasters include volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
What are Natural disasters?
Is the variety of living beings that inhabit a given area of the planet
What is biodiversity?
It means distinguishing or excluding people based on their income level, gender, ethnic origin, cultural background, sexual orientation, political ideas, religion, physical or mental disability, or other factors that prevent them from exercising their rights and enjoying the same opportunities for education, employment, medical attention and recreation as everyone else.
What is discrimination?
Natural, social, economic, politic, cultural....
What are the elements of Geographic Space?
In this projection the grid of parallels and meridians is made up of perpendicular lines.
What is a cylindrical projection?
Examples of these types of risks are tornadoes, floods and hurricanes.
What are hydrometeorological risks?
The country in Oceania with the most plant diversity
What is Australia?
Two of the worst consequences of poverty and social exclusion.
What are hunger and malnutrition?