Place and Livability
What does the term liveability mean?
How suitable and pleasant a place is to live in.
What percentage of Earth's surface is approximately covered by water?
About 71%.
What is a landform?
A natural physical feature of Earth's surface.
What is deforestation?
The clearing or removal of forests.
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific Ocean.
Name one essential service that makes a place more liveable.
A hospital, school, public transport, clean water or electricity.
What is the process called when liquid water changes into water vapour?
Evaporation.
What is the name for a large, flat area of land that is elevated above the surrounding land?
A plateau.
Name one human activity that contributes to climate change.
Burning fossil fuels, deforestation or some agricultural activities.
What is the capital city of New Zealand?
Wellington
What is urbanisation?
The increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities.
Why is most of Earth's water not suitable for drinking without treatment?
Most is salt water in the oceans.
What are the three main processes that shape landscapes through the movement of rock and soil?
Weathering, erosion and deposition.
What is biodiversity?
The variety of living things in an area or across Earth.
Which country has the largest population in the world?
India
Why might people living in rural areas have less access to some services than people in cities?
Services may be further away because populations are smaller and more spread out.
Explain one way drought can affect farming communities.
Crops may fail, livestock may suffer, and farmers may lose income.
How does a meander form in a river?
Erosion on the outside of a bend and deposition on the inside gradually create a curved channel.
Explain how fertiliser runoff from farms can harm aquatic ecosystems.
Excess nutrients can cause algal blooms, which may reduce oxygen in the water and harm aquatic life
Which imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The Equator.
A city has high employment but severe traffic congestion, expensive housing and limited green space. Explain one way its liveability could be improved.
Improve public transport, increase affordable housing or create more parks and green spaces.
Explain how the removal of vegetation in a catchment can affect water quality in rivers.
More soil can erode into rivers, increasing sediment and potentially carrying pollutants.
Why are steep mountain slopes often more vulnerable to landslides after heavy rainfall?
Water can saturate the soil, increase its weight and reduce the stability of the slope.
A town wants to expand housing into a nearby forest. Identify one environmental impact and one strategy to reduce it.
Impact: habitat loss. Strategy: protect habitat corridors, retain native vegetation or develop on previously cleared land
Which country contains the world's largest area of tropical rainforest, the Amazon rainforest?
Brazil