Nature
Another name for the Earth's biosphere.
What is Mother Nature?
Contains Victoria's highest mountain, Mount Bogong.
What are the Alps?
The reason why we do things.
What is motivation?
What is a positive response?
Focused on using the environment as a means of financial gain.
What is a resource?
Species and their environment must have this type of relationship for it to be called an ecosystem.
What is interdependent?
An environment dominated by grasses and other small plants, such as herbs and wildflowers. Home to the barred bandicoot and the striped legless lizard.
What are Grasslands?
Motivation from within ourselves.
What is intrinsic motivation?
A response that can be both a positive and a negative response to the outdoors.
What is curiosity?
Creates a deeper level of connection to the environment. Often seen in the connection between Indigenous Australians and the land.
What is a spiritual connection?
Big, remote and relatively untouched by humans.
What is Wilderness?
Found in the N/W of Victoria, such as around the Murray River.
Motivations from external sources.
What is extrinsic motivation?
Revolution is a form of this response to the outdoors.
What is a negative response?
Obtaining knowledge and understanding from the environment through actively engaging with it.
What is experiential knowledge?
Areas that are created or modified by people. May include buildings, parks and transport systems.
What is a built environment?
What are dry forests and woodlands?
Described as feeling at one with the world.
What is FLOW state?
Age is an example of this.
What is a factor that influences personal response to the outdoor environment?
Developing a basic knowledge of what has occurred in a specific environment throughout a period of time.
What is environment and natural history?
Victoria has 8 of these.
What is a biome?
We will be visiting this type of environment during our camp.
What are coastal and marine environments?
Examples include being the first to achieve something.
What is competence/mastery motivation?
Includes how TV, the Internet and social media can impact personal responses to outdoor environments.
What is media?
A perspective that is grounded in biology and the interrelationships between a living organism and its physical surroundings.
What is an ecological perspective?