What is geography?
Getting energy/electricity from renewable sources (eg wind or solar)
What is sustainability?
Includes elements of infrastructure
such as buildings, roads, transport, energy, sewerage and telecommunication systems.
What are human landscapes?
When two tectonic plates pull apart from each other.
What is divergent?
Investors buying up land, for the value of the land + its resources
What is economic value?
The direction with the shortened title SE.
What is South East?
All the living and non-living things found in a place. Includes plants, animals, soil, landforms and climate
What is environment?
Examples include caves, stalactites and sinkholes
What are Karst Landscapes?
The movement of sediment after it has been weathered away
What is erosion?
Indigenous Australians express the importance of the land to them through Dreamtime stories, song, dance and art
What is spiritual and cultural value?
These lines measure height above sea level.
What are contour lines?
A geographical concept that can span from local, national and global.
What is scale?
Located along the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, as well as, located closer to the Arctic and Antarctic circles
What are desert landscapes?
When two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other
What is transform?
A management strategy that aims to keep an environment in its existing form.
What is preservation?
Identify types of boundaries, roads, buildings, agriculture, industry, places of interest
What is legend?
Pollution in a river can cause the plants along the river to die
What is interconnection?
Shaped by the natural forces of the wind and waves.
What are coastal landscapes?
The result of a great amount of molten rock (magma)
pushing its way up under the Earth’s crust, then cooling.
What are Dome Mountains?
Managing rainfall, stabilising slopes with vegetation or engineered structures
What is preventing a landslide?
Allows a reader to calculate the size, height and dimensions of the features shown on the map.
What is scale?
Your home vs. Your home has a space for cooking and a space for sleeping
Landscapes characterised by rivers and fresh water.
What are riverine landscapes
Causes tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents in the mantle?
Promoting the enjoyment of landscapes by tourists in a responsible, sustainable CERTIFIED way.
In area reference, which axis comes first? Northings or Eastings?
What are eastings?