Human landscapes
What Human landscapes means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The features people have created, including settlement, communication and land-use, which can be inferred by linking map symbols to the underlying physical geography.
Features shown on maps including population distribution, population movements, transport networks and settlement layouts such as nucleated or linear villages.
Areas where human activities can be inferred from map evidence, such as transport networks, settlement patterns and industrial features like quarries.
Topics that use Human landscapes
- Cartographic skills (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Annotation
- Cartographic interpretation
- Cartographic skills
- Contour lines
- Contour patterns
- Curved line distance
- Direction
- Fluvial landscapes
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