Geo Skills
This imaginary line runs around the circumference of the Earth and divides it north and south.
What is the equator?
This type of graph shows annual temperatures and precipitation.
What is a climate graph?
This process involves the wearing away of the Earth's surface by natural forces such as wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
This index measures a country's average achievements in health, education, and income.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
These four terms are known as the four cardinal directions.
What is north, south, east, and west?
These lines, most commonly know as longitudes, begin and end at Greenwich.
What are meridians?
These symbols are provided alongside a chart or graph in order to understand what data is being represented.
What is a key?
This process describes the movement of sediment along the coastline due to wave action.
What is longshore drift?
This term refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live based on current mortality rates.
What is life expectancy?
This type of map shows the physical features of a terrain, including elevation.
What is a topographic map?
This term refers to the direction that a slope faces.
What is aspect?
A graphical representation showing the number of people within each age group, divided by gender, and typically in a certain shape.
What is a population pyramid?
Rising sea levels, an increase of severe weather events, loss of biodiversity, and disruption of ecosystems are significant impacts of this concept.
What is climate change?
This is a common way of measuring a nation's wealth and the market value of the goods it produces.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
This term is used to identify the ratio of the size of a map compared to the real world.
What is scale?
This term refers to the visibility of one location from another, usually affected by features in the landscape.
What is intervisibilty?
This type of chart includes measurements of atmospheric pressure.
What is a synoptic chart?
This coastal management strategy involves the shifting and replenishment of large amounts of sediment that has been removed from coastal areas.
What are sand motors?
This index is often presented as an alternative method for measuring human well-being
What is the Happy Planet Index (HPI)?
This is a type of map that uses different colors or shading to show the distribution of a variable, like population density.
What is a choropleth map?
This type of photograph provides an angled overhead view of an area, often used in mapping.
What is an oblique aerial photograph?
This measurement system, typically involving 6 digits, is used to specify locations on a map.
What is a grid reference?
This practice involves using renewable resources in a way that meets present needs without compromising future generations.
What is sustainable development?
This term refers to differences in human well-being in differing locations on Earth's surface
What are spatial variations?
This unit is often used to measure distances on maps, equivalent to 1/100,000 of a meter.
What is a centimeter?