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SQA National 5 Geography

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Flashcards for SQA National 5 Geography (course code C833 75), split into Physical environments, Human environments, Global issues and Geographical skills, then by topic in the specification's order. Each landscape type and each global issue has its own subdeck, since a course studies only some of them. Delete or suspend any subdeck your course leaves out once the deck is yours.

Adding it gives you your own copy, with every subdeck below. Each card then comes back just before you would forget it, and every one you get right or wrong counts towards your mastery of its topic. You can delete or suspend the parts you are not studying once it is yours.

What is inside (40 subdecks)

  • Geographical skills129 cards
    • 1. Grid references16 cards
    • 2. Scale and distance13 cards
    • 3. Relief and contour patterns17 cards
    • 4. Gradient15 cards
    • 5. Human and physical features and patterns15 cards
    • 6. Photographs, sketches and cross-sections11 cards
    • 7. Numerical and graphical information27 cards
    • 8. Research and fieldwork skills15 cards
  • Global issues279 cards
    • 1. Climate change27 cards
    • 2. Natural regions49 cards
    • 3. Environmental hazards65 cards
    • 4. Trade and globalisation28 cards
    • 5. Tourism26 cards
    • 6. Health84 cards
      • 6.1 World disease distribution8 cards
      • 6.2 HIV/AIDS21 cards
      • 6.3 Heart disease9 cards
      • 6.4 Cancer9 cards
      • 6.5 Asthma6 cards
      • 6.6 Malaria11 cards
      • 6.7 Cholera8 cards
      • 6.8 Kwashiorkor6 cards
      • 6.9 Pneumonia6 cards
  • Human environments195 cards
    • 1. Developed and developing countries24 cards
    • 2. Global population distribution30 cards
    • 3. Birth and death rates21 cards
    • 4. Land-use zones in cities in the developed world25 cards
    • 5. Recent developments in developed-world cities24 cards
    • 6. Informal housing in developing-world cities22 cards
    • 7. Rural change in developed countries24 cards
    • 8. Rural change in developing countries25 cards
  • Physical environments269 cards
    • 1. Weather in the UK62 cards
    • 2. Glaciated uplands54 cards
    • 3. Coastal landscapes58 cards
    • 4. Upland limestone43 cards
    • 5. Rivers and their valleys52 cards

Some of its cards

  • What is an environmental hazard?
    A natural event that threatens people and property
  • What is cholera?
    A disease that causes severe diarrhoea, caused by bacteria in contaminated water
  • What is cancer?
    A disease where abnormal cells grow out of control
  • Why are places further north in the UK usually cooler than places in the south?
    Sunlight reaches them at a lower angle and is spread over a larger area
  • What is malaria?
    A disease caused by a parasite, spread by mosquitoes
  • What is gradient?
    How steep a slope is
  • What is an export?
    A good or service sold to another country
  • What is map scale?
    The ratio between distance on the map and distance on the ground
  • What is mass tourism?
    Large numbers of people visiting the same place, often on package holidays
  • What is heart disease?
    A condition where the heart or its blood vessels do not work properly

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