Landscape Values
What value describes the beauty or appearance of a landscape?
Aesthetic value.
What is a perception?
The way a person sees or understands something.
In which Australian territory is Uluru located?
Northern Territory.
In which country is Mount Fuji located?
Japan.
Who are the Traditional Owners of Uluru?
Anangu.
What value relates to jobs, income and business profits?
Economic value.
Name one group of people who may value the Grand Canyon.
For example: tourists, locals, Indigenous people, geologists, business owners or park services.
What type of sandstone makes up most of Uluru?
Arkose sandstone.
What type of volcano is Mount Fuji?
A stratovolcano (composite volcano).
What Japanese religion regards Mount Fuji as sacred?
Shinto.
What value relates to a place’s traditions, history and community identity?
Cultural value.
How might tourists and business owners value a landscape differently?
Tourists may value scenery and experiences; business owners may value income from visitors.
What natural process gradually removed surrounding material and exposed Uluru?
Erosion.
How tall is Mount Fuji?
3,776 metres.
What is Tjukurpa in Anangu culture?
A living system of law, knowledge, beliefs and responsibilities connected to Country.
What value describes what people can learn from a landscape?
Educational value.
How is a perception different from a value?
A perception is how someone sees a place; a value is why they consider it important.
Approximately how high does Uluru rise above the surrounding plain?
348 metres.
What materials build up the layers of a stratovolcano?
Hardened lava and volcanic ash.
Name two negative environmental impacts of tourism at Mount Fuji.
Any two: littering, trail erosion, overcrowding.
A geologist studies the Grand Canyon’s rock layers to understand Earth’s past. Which value is this, and why?
Educational value: its rock layers provide evidence about Earth’s history.
Explain why Indigenous Traditional Owners and tourists might value the same landscape differently.
Traditional Owners may have cultural, spiritual and ancestral connections and responsibilities to Country; tourists may focus on scenery or recreation.
Put these processes in order: erosion exposes rock; sediment is deposited; tectonic forces tilt layers; sediment becomes sandstone.
Sediment deposited → compaction and cementation form sandstone → tectonic forces tilt layers → erosion exposes Uluru.
At what type of plate boundary does the lesson explain Mount Fuji formed?
A convergent plate boundary.
Why was climbing Uluru permanently closed in 2019?
To respect the cultural significance of Uluru and the long-standing wishes of Anangu Traditional Owners.