1. Photographs

2. Where is this picture taken?
What is the scale of the problem?
How does this contribute to climate change?

3. How does this contribute to
climate change?
Why is this a growing problem?

4. What is happening here?
What are the causes?
What will the effects be?

5. What does this picture show?
What are the causes? What are the impacts?

6. What is happening here?
What were the aims? How successful was it?

7. What is the message here?
Who produced this?
What other methods do they use to get people’s attention?

8. What is happening here?
What are the aims? What else do you know?

9. What is happening here?
What are the aims?
How is this an example of a
sustainable strategy?

10. What are these people doing?
How is this an example of sustainable development?

11. What is happening here?
What are the impacts? How could they be managed?

12. Interpreting photographs
Learning objective: to
understand and interpret
different types of photographs

13. Types of photographs
• Aerial photograph – taken directly
from above (vertical)
• Oblique photograph – taken from an
angle from above
Aerial photographs
show a ‘bird’s eye Oblique
view’ while oblique aerial
photographs show a
3d view.

14. Types of photographs
• Satellite photograph– taken from space.
• Can show a large area (e.g. the whole
Earth)
• They can also zoom in to street level.

15. Which type of photograph?

16. Which type of photograph?

17. Which type of photograph?

18. Which type of photograph?

19. Which type of photograph?

20. Which type of photograph?

21. Interpreting physical features
from photographs
Relief (the shape of the land):
• Is the land sloping or flat?
• If slopes, are they steep or gentle?
• Are there hills / mountains / valleys? What size / shape are they?
River / coastal features:
• Is there a river?
• Is it long / wide / short / narrow?
• Is there a lake?
• Are there rivers flowing into the lake?
• What is the coastline like?
• Is it straight or are there bays and headlands?
• Are there beaches? How long / wide are they?
• Are there islands in the rivers / sea? Describe their size and shape

22. Interpreting human features
from photographs
Farmland
• Are the fields large / small?
• Regular or irregular pattern?
• What colour is the land? What does this suggest about what is being
grown?
• How are the fields separated – hedges, roads, rivers?
Settlement
• Small settlement – what is the shape? (Nucleated, linear, dispersed)
• Housing developments – what pattern is the housing (grid, cul-de-sac
etc)? How large / small are the houses? Do they have gardens /
garages?
• Can you identify shops, schools, places of worship, tourist facilities?
Transport & communications
• What roads are there (motorways, A roads, small rural roads)?
• What transport links can be identified? (airports, railways, ports)

23. Task
• Look at the oblique aerial photograph
on p11 of your Skills Book.
• Describe the physical and human
features which can be seen.

24. What is the pattern of land use
in this photograph?

25. What are the human features
R,S,T in this photograph?