G Skills

Keywords

Keywords allow us to describe our physical and human environment.

They describe and identify natural landscapes and locations, spatial dimensions and natural and human resources.

To do: Physical geography questions

Location tells you where a place is.

For example, Adelaide is in the state of South Australia, the city is on the east side of the Gulf of St Vincent, it is 1374 km east of Sydney NSW.

Research and describe the location of the following sites.

  • The Twelve Apostles

  • Belair, SA

  • Mt Everest

  • Vietnam

  • Sydney NSW

Now describe your suburb using the 5 physical geography keywords

  1. Location

  2. Relief

  3. Climate

  4. Vegetation

  5. Drainage

Keywords

Keywords allow us to describe our physical and human environment.

To do: Human geography questions

Use the Human geography words to describe the three locations

Settlement, population and function.

1. Boltss

BOLTSS is an acronym for the components of a map that make it more useful.

Border

Orientation

Legend

Title

Scale

Source

To do: Draw a map of the school using BOLTSS.

2. Map my House

Use your G skills to map your house.

Use your new mapping skills to create a spatial investigation of your home and its location.

Part 1. A satellite map of your house.

Screenshot an image of the location of your house relative to the Adelaide CBD.

Annotate the following information.

  • A line from the CBD to your home

  • The distance from the CBD to your home.

  • Annotation highlighting your house location

Part 2. A picture of your house using Google Street View.

Just click on the Google Guy

Part 3. An annotated satellite view of your house

  • Annotation highlighting your house location

  • Annotation showing interesting urban elements nearby IE Parks and ovals

Part 4. Hand drawn map of your neighbourhood with key locations labelled