Skills in Australian geography
Kleeman, Grant2003
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Brings together a collection of topographic map extracts, exercises that enable students to understand geography through practice and supporting explanatory text. Accompanying each map is a set of graded questions
Main title:
Skills in Australian geography / by Grant Kleeman and Andrew Peters
Imprint:
Port Melbourne Vic. Cambridge University Press 2003
Collation:
92 p illustrations (some colour) colour maps
Audience:
Secondary
Contents:
Section 1. Geography skills bank: Maps - Scale - Latitude, longitude and time zones - Direction, bearing and quadrants - Relief - Landform features - Interpreting topographic maps - Photographs and satellite images - Field sketches, line drawings and sketch maps - Climate graphs and weather maps - Graphs - Specialist maps - Interpreting statistical data. Section 2. Using your geography skills. Canberra topographic map extract - Camden Haven topographic map extract - Kosciuszko topographic map extract - Darling Harbour and Pyrmont - Wallis Lake topographic map extract - Eildon topographic map extract - Melbourne's Docklnad - Grampians topographic map extract - Lake Pedder topographic map extract - Lake St. Clair topographic map extract - Tamar topographic map extract - Barossa Valley topographic map extract - Port Headland topographic map extract - Darwin topographic map extract - Uluru topographic map extract - Daintree topographic map extract - Noosa topographic map extract - Mount Isa topographic map extract - Cairns topographic map extract - Hamilton Island topographic map extract - Section 3: Themes in Australian geography - Australia's place and space - Australia's landforms and deserts - Australia's climate - Natural hazards - Australia's vegetation - Australia's population - Indigenous Australians - Where Australians live - Economic activity and work - Tourism
ISBN:
0521775876 (pbk)
Dewey class:
919.4 SKI
Local class:
919.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
136410
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