Understanding Wellbeing
People's ability to live happy, healthy and contented lives.
What is wellbeing?
Tiny particles measuring 2.5 micrometres or smaller.
What is PM2.5?
The way something is distributed across space.
What is a spatial pattern?
Conditions created by people, governments and societies that influence wellbeing.
What are human factors?
Differences in wellbeing between places across Australia.
What is spatial variation?
The state commonly identified as having higher wellbeing and human development.
What is Kerala?
Alterations in the natural environment over time.
What is environmental change?
The three key components that strongly influence wellbeing.
What are health, education and income?
Vehicle exhaust and factory emissions are major sources of this environmental issue.
What is air pollution?
This climate generally provides fertile soils and reliable growing seasons.
What is a temperate climate?
A lack of these opportunities often leads to poverty and lower wellbeing.
What are employment opportunities?
The challenge created by Australia's vast distances.
What is the tyranny of distance?
People living in these areas are almost twice as likely to live below the poverty line than those in urban areas.
What are rural areas?
What is an ecological footprint?
High levels of meat consumption and energy use are most likely to increase this environmental measure.
A measurable piece of data used to assess wellbeing.
What is an indicator?
Air quality above 50 µg/m³ is classified as this.
What is very poor or unhealthy air quality?
Complete the chain: Low rainfall → poor agriculture → food shortages → _________ → reduced wellbeing.
What is malnutrition?
National averages may hide this between groups and communities.
What is inequality?
For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, wellbeing includes culture, spirituality and this connection.
What is connection to Country?
Poor roads, electricity and communication networks are examples of this factor contributing to poverty.
What is poor infrastructure?
A tsunami is an example of this timescale of environmental change.
What is instant change?
This index combines education, health and income into one measure.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
Children, older people and people with existing health conditions are especially vulnerable to this hazard.
What is air pollution
A volcanic eruption is an example of this type of environmental change.
What is a naturally induced environmental change?
Human factors are often described as this because one problem can create several others.
What is interconnected?
This national strategy aims to improve health, education, housing and employment outcomes.
What is Closing the Gap?
Droughts, floods and environmental degradation affect Indian farmers because they are largely dependent on this activity.
What is agriculture or farming?
Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and cyclones belong to this category.
What are natural processes?
A map that uses colours or shading to represent data.
What is a choropleth map?
PM2.5 particles are about 30 times smaller than this.
What is a human hair?
Increasing the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is an example of this response to climate change.
What is climate change mitigation (or a response to climate change)?
Meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
What is sustainability?
Geographers use maps for this reason: they help identify regional trends and inequalities.
What is comparing wellbeing between places?
Shared sanitation, water shortages and overcrowding are common characteristics of these settlements.
What are slums?
Changes caused by mining, deforestation and pollution are known as this.
What is human-induced environmental change?