Geography Fieldwork Vocabulary Quiz

Geography Fieldwork Vocabulary

• An ecosystem is a geographic area where living and non-living things interact.
• Producers are organisms like plants and trees that can make their own food.
• A gridded quadrat is a square frame used to estimate coverage of a species in a sampling site.
• A lux meter measures light intensity in the field.
• Coniferous woodland consists of trees like spruce and pine, while deciduous woodland has trees with broad, flat leaves.
• Abiotic factors in an ecosystem include non-living things like water, soil, sunlight, and rocks.
• "Sense of place" refers to the unique physical and human attributes that give a place character.
• Grid references are numbered lines used to locate a place on a map.
• Physical geography studies natural features like mountains, rivers, and oceans, as well as climate.
• Human characteristics of a place include culture, language, religion, buildings, and landmarks.
• Contour lines join points of equal elevation on a map and show the steepness of a slope.
• A food web is a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains in an ecosystem.