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What is Human Geography?
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About how and where we live
(e.g. place we live in- how changing, what we do,why countries poor, how we depend on each other)
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Central Business District (CBD)
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In the centre of a settlement. The oldest part. The city began here
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Four figure grid reference
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Four figure grid refernces are used to LOCATE a partcular GRID SQUARE on a map.
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Settelement Hierachy
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Capital city
city
lare town
small town
large village
small village
hamlet
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Rural areas
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The countryside. Large isolated areas of a country with low population
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Urbanisation
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Movement of people from rural to urban areas causing cities to grow. (farms and villages to cities)
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Nucleated settlement
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Settlement clustered around a central point like a church or a village green
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Linear settlement
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Long ribbon of settlement formed along routeway like a road or canal
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Dispersed Settlement
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Settlement pattern of scattered isolated isolated dwellings.
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Settlement
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The villages, towns and cities we live in
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Sketch map
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Not an accurate map. It has a title/frame/key/labels/notes /detail to show shape and layout of place
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The Directions
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Course route, way to go
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Dereclict redevelopment
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Building on land which first needs to be treated and restored because it has been damaged by industrial use and is then abandoned
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Environmental Geography
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How we affect our surroundings
eg pollution of land,air,water, killing species, warming Earth, taking care
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Physical Geography
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About what our planet is like
eg seas, rivers, coast, weather, climate, earthquake, volcanoes, flood
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