Skills

Question 1

What measures wind?

Answer 1

Anemometer

Question 2

What measures air humidity?

Answer 2

Hygrometer

Question 3

What is the blue dotted line?

Answer 3

low pressure trough

Question 4

What is the blue spikey line?

Answer 4

Cold front

Question 5

What is the red bumpy line?

Answer 5

Warm front

Question 6

What are the black lines?

Answer 6

isobars

Question 7

What does the H and L mean?

Answer 7

High and low pressure region

Question 8

How do you know what direction a cold or warm front is moving?

Answer 8

It is the direction that the bumps/spikes are facing

Question 9

What is a GIS?

Answer 9

• Geographic information system
• computer system that analyzes and displays geographic information

Question 10

What is a clinometer?

Answer 10

instrument used for measuring angles of slope, elevation, or depression of an object

Question 11

What is a barometer?

Answer 11

Device used to measure air pressure

Question 12

What map is this?

Answer 12

Choropleth

Question 13

What map is this?

Answer 13

Synoptic

Question 14

What map is this?

Answer 14

cadastral

Question 15

What map is this?

Answer 15

cartogram

Question 16

What map is this?

Answer 16

topographic

Question 17

What map is this?

Answer 17

Flowline

Question 18

What map is this?

Answer 18

Précis

Question 19

What are isoline maps used for?

Answer 19

To connect data points with the same value

Question 20

What is the difference between isoline maps and synoptic charts?

Answer 20

• Synoptic charts are a type of isoline map
• Not all isoline maps are synoptic charts

Question 21

In what order are urban hierarchies usually in?

Answer 21

Biggest to smallest

Question 22

What are examples of a spatial technology tool?

Answer 22

• Google maps/Earth
• GIS
• GPS
• Any virtual maps/satellite images

Question 23

What is urban renewal?

Answer 23

a process of redeveloping and revitalizing older, deteriorated urban areas

Question 24

What is an urban village?

Answer 24

a distinct residential area within a city that fosters a sense of community and walkability

Question 25

What is exurbanisation?

Answer 25

* the migration of affluent people from urban areas to rural or exurban (beyond the suburbs) locations * they maintain an urban lifestyle through commuting and technology

Question 26

What is spatial exclusion?

Answer 26

* the practice of restricting access to and use of urban spaces, often resulting in the marginalization of certain groups * e.g. gated communities

Question 27

What is suburbanisation?

Answer 27

* the outward expansion of urban areas * characterized by the movement of people, businesses, and services from the central city to surrounding areas

Question 28

What is urban consolidation?

Answer 28

policies and practices that increase population density within existing urban areas, rather than expanding outward into previously undeveloped land

Question 29

What is counterurbanisation?

Answer 29

demographic and social process in which people move from urban areas to rural areas

Question 30

What is decentralisation?

Answer 30

* the dispersal of people, economic activities, and infrastructure away from a central urban core to surrounding areas * often leads to the growth of smaller urban centers and rural areas