Geography EoY

• Push and pull factors

Area Reference = AR _ _ _ _

• Four digit number with AR in front of it

• Bottom left corner of the square

Grid Reference = GR _ _ _ _ _ _

• Six digit number with GR in front of it

• Bottom left corner of the square

• Uses numbers to represent the place within the square

Latitude

• Horizontal lines

• Side to side

• Equator is line of latitude

  • Separates Northern and Southern hemisphere

  • 0 degrees latitude

• Lines of latitude are either North or South of the equator

Longitude

• Vertical lines

  • North to South

Prime Meridian/Greenwich Mean

• Line of longitude which divides globe in half vertically

• East or west of the prime meridian

International Date Line

• Line of longitude

• Approximately 180 degrees

• Marks start of new day

• On other side of earth to Prime Meridian

Line Sketches

• Basic, simple drawing of what is depicted in an image of a city or landscape

Synoptic Charts

• Weather —> daily conditions in the atmosphere

• Climate —> average temperature and conditions over a long time

• Isobars —> lines that join places of equal air pressure

  • The closer they are the stronger the wind

• High pressure system

  • Warm, mild weather

• Low pressure system

  • Unstable, wind, rain

• Cold front

  • Suddenly colder, windier

• Warm front

  • Warmer air is arriving

Population Pyramids

• Triangle = Developing country

  • People die earlier

  • More children born

  • Unstable economy

  • Usually shows bad healthcare

  • Shorter lifespans

• Barrel

  • Falling birth rate

  • Higher life expectancy

• Rectangular = Developed country

  • Fewer child deaths

  • Longer life expectancy

• Reverse Triangle = Ageing population

  • Fewer children being born

  • More people living until old age

  • Means that there are fewer people working

  • More money goes towards the elderly

Push Factors

• Things that make someone want to leave a place

Pull Factors

• Things that make people want to go to a place