1.2 Geographical Data, Vocab

observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation

• quantitative

• Landscape

• Phenomena

• fieldwork

professional images captured from planes within the atmosphere

• qualitative

• quantitative

• Phenomena

• aerial photography

relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.

• Landscape

• Synthesising

• qualitative

• quantitative

The central ideas or principles that guide government in its work, including the kind of laws it passes.

• government policy

• fieldwork

• remote sensing

• aerial photography

capable of being measured or expressed as an amount

• qualitative

• quantitative

• Landscape

• Synthesising

the act of physically visiting a location, place, or region and recording, firsthand, information there

• remote sensing

• field observation

• aerial photography

• fieldwork

a large area with a particular kind of scenery, such as a desert landscape

• quantitative

• Landscape

• qualitative

• Synthesising

Combine your own knowledge with what you have just read to create new ideas and thoughts.

• quantitative

• Synthesizing

• remote sensing

• qualitative

the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places

• Phenomena

• fieldwork

• qualitative

• remote sensing

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long-distance methods.

• fieldwork

• Synthesizing

• remote sensing

• qualitative