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Flashcards for SQA Advanced Higher Geography (course specification version 2.0, September 2019), split into three areas: reading OS maps, fieldwork and survey techniques, and handling geographical data. Each has numbered topics, from grid references to chi-squared, with formulae and short worked examples in the statistics topics.

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What is inside (36 subdecks)

  • 1 Map interpretation156 cards
    • 1.1 Scale, distance and area23 cards
    • 1.2 Grid references and location17 cards
    • 1.3 Relief and landforms31 cards
    • 1.4 Drainage and water features18 cards
    • 1.5 Settlement and urban land use22 cards
    • 1.6 Transport and communications14 cards
    • 1.7 Rural, recreation and other land uses16 cards
    • 1.8 Photographs, sketches, overlays and the atlas15 cards
  • 2 Gathering and processing techniques261 cards
    • 2.1 Stream analysis32 cards
    • 2.2 Pebble analysis21 cards
    • 2.3 Beach profile analysis18 cards
    • 2.4 Slope analysis18 cards
    • 2.5 Soil analysis29 cards
    • 2.6 Vegetation analysis23 cards
    • 2.7 Micro-climate analysis22 cards
    • 2.8 Environmental quality survey19 cards
    • 2.9 Questionnaires and interviews27 cards
    • 2.10 Perception studies18 cards
    • 2.11 Pedestrian and traffic surveys16 cards
    • 2.12 Urban and rural land use mapping18 cards
  • 3 Geographical data handling281 cards
    • 3.1 Data types and sources24 cards
    • 3.2 Sampling methods20 cards
    • 3.3 Hypotheses and significance17 cards
    • 3.4 Graphical presentation of data26 cards
    • 3.5 Map-based presentation29 cards
    • 3.6 Measures of central tendency17 cards
    • 3.7 Measures of dispersion27 cards
    • 3.8 Chi-squared analysis23 cards
    • 3.9 Nearest neighbour analysis17 cards
    • 3.10 Spearman's rank correlation coefficient28 cards
    • 3.11 Pearson's product moment correlation16 cards
    • 3.12 Linear regression analysis19 cards
    • 3.13 Evaluating techniques, data and sources18 cards

Some of its cards

  • What does Spearman's rank correlation coefficient measure?
    The strength and direction of the relationship between two ranked sets of data
  • Why are samples used in geographical investigations?
    Measuring everything is usually impossible in the time available
  • What is reliability in data?
    The extent to which repeating the method would give the same results
  • What is an oblique photograph?
    A photograph taken at an angle, showing landscape features from the side
  • Why are pebbles measured in river and beach studies?
    Their size, shape and roundness show how they have been transported and worn
  • What is a micro-climate?
    The climate of a very small area, such as a garden, a wood or a street
  • What is a bipolar analysis?
    A graph showing scores between pairs of opposite descriptors, such as clean and dirty, along a scale with a central zero
  • What is dispersion?
    How spread out a set of data is around its centre
  • What do contour lines join?
    Points of equal height above sea level
  • Which land use suits gently sloping fertile lowland?
    Arable farming

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