GEOGRAPHIC SKILLS
Watch the videos associated with each of these skills and
then answer the questions that go with it
LATITUDE & LONGITUDE
Which coordinate comes first?
How many divisions are there?
What are the latitudinal/longitudinal coordinates for the
Great Pyramid at Giza?
Mt Ngauruhoe?
Now using an atlas find them for: The Sydney Opera House
 Ayres Rock
 Mt Cook
6 FIGURE GRID REFERENCE
Where is the Waimakariri River?
The horizontal lines travel in which direction?
The vertical lines travel in which direction?
Which is read first?
Which is read 2nd?
What is this the opposite of?
Give the grid references for:A
B
C
Surf Club
Kaiapoi River into Waimakariri
Oxidation ponds
School closest to the east of Kaiapoi River.
LOCATED BAR GRAPH
What is it?
What is the advantage of a located bar graph?
Which country in Southern Africa has the largest elephant
population?
Describe it’s location geographically.
What scale is used for population size in Southern U.S. states
in 2010?
SCATTERGRAPHS
What does GDP mean?
What factor goes on the x axis and why?
Why does GDP influence life expectancy at birth?
Describe the negative correlation on the scattergraph.
Explain why this happens.
Explain the relationship on the scattergraph he has drawn.
The trend line is also called the …. … ….
DOT DISTRIBUTION LINE
What is population density?
What are the ‘mapping conventions’?
What does one dot equal?
Why does he not draw all of the dots bunched up together?
Which is the most densely populated region?
Which region has sparse population?
How wide is ‘Make Believe “ Island?
WEATHER MAPS
What is an isoline map? Give 2 egs.
What is an isobar?
How is atmospheric pressure measured?
What is sea level air pressure?
What is considered to be high pressure?
A high pressure system is also known as an ……………………..?
What climatic conditions are associated with this weather
system?
A low pressure system is also known as …………………………?
What climatic conditions are associated with this?
What is the big difference between the high pressure system
and the low pressure?
What is the CORIOLIS effect? (Google this for more info)
In the Southern Hemisphere what direction do the high
pressure systems rotate in? Low pressure?
In the Northern hemisphere what happens?
What does it mean when the isobars are close together?
CROSS- SECTION
What does a cross section map show?
What fruit does he cut?
What do contour lines show?
What is the vertical index of Rongitoto Island?
How high is Rongitoto Island?
Name 6 parts of a x-section.
HISTOGRAM
Name 2 differences between a histogram and a bar graph.
What kind of trees are being graphed here?
CHOROPLETH MAPS
What is Darron’s choropleth map on?
Which area is the most popular region for this type of
farming?
Why?
MEAN, MEDIAN AND MODE
Mean= ?
What is the average temperature for Suva, Fiji?
Mode=
And the mode temp for Suva is……………?
Median=
What is the median house price?
What do you do if the 2 middle numbers are the same?
So this makes Suva’s median temperature…………….
%BAR GRAPH
Which 2 ways can it be drawn?
What scale does he use?
What are the percentages for India?
Which category goes first?
What animal sleeps at the end?
FLOWLINE MAP
What scale does he use?
How many NZers are part of Australia’s foreign born
population?
Therefore what thickness is the line from NZ to Australia?
PICTOGRAPHS
(year 11 this sort of graph can be used when you do your
research internal on where should a sports shop go in
Havelock North)
What is a Pictograph?
Which school consumed the most oranges?
Which school ate the most bananas?