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Any place where information comes from.
What is a source?
Uses data about rainfall, land slope and nearby water systems.
What is a flood-risk map?
Helps us understand why people disagree and what each group values.
What is comparing perspectives?
Some examples of this includes:
a. measurements
b. surveys
c. drone images
What is a primary source?
Individuals, groups or organizations affected by or involved in an issue
what is a stakeholder?
Show how patterns change overtime.
What is a trend?
Some examples of this includes:
a. charts
b. maps
c. websites
What is a secondary source?
Helps us understand where things are and why they are there.
What is spatial significance?
Often comes from experts, government agencies, organizations that share verified data.
What are reliable sources?
Arrangements that repeat or form noticeable shapes
What are patterns?
A system of satellites that orbit the earth and send signals to receivers on the ground.
What is a GPS? (Global Positioning System)
Often uses emotional or persuasive language, leaves out important details, doesn't explain how the information was collected, focuses on opinions instead of facts.
What are unreliable sources?
information that can be measured or counted
What is quantitative data?
Uses symbols, colours and lines to show what is on the land.
What is a a topographic map?
Captures images of land, water and changes overtime.
What is remote sensing and satellite images?
The spread of housing, roads, and shopping areas into rural land around cities.
What is urban sprawl?
The removal of trees for logging, farming, or urban development.
What is deforestation?
Creates maps using data layers.
What is a GIS? (Geographic Information System)
each _________ __________ represents a specific elevation, and the closer they are, the deeper the terrain.
What is a contour line?
Examples include interviews, written descriptions, photos, drawings, and personal stories.
What is qualitative data?
The ways in which people, places and the environment influence each other.
What are interrelationships?
Helps us to see where areas rise, slope or stay flat.
What is elevation?
Geographers collect this using GPS devices, mapping apps, GIS software, or satellite images.
What is locational data?
Geographers consider social, environmental, economic and political factors.
What is geographic perspective?
Tools which allow geographers to collect, organize, and analyze data that has location attached to it.
What are geospatial technologies?