HSIE Skills
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Who gave the Apology speech?
Kevin Rudd
At the end of WWII, who were the two new superpowers?
The US and the USSR
What are biotic and abiotic features?
Biotic are living features and abiotic are non-living features.
What is a biome?
A biome is a large collection of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat.
What is CE?
Common Era
Who led the Australian Freedom Rides?
Charles Perkins
Until 1950, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam made up an area called?
Indochina
The atmosphere relates to the air, and the hydrosphere relates to...
water
List four dimensions of human wellbeing.
Health, population, economic resources, family and community, housing, culture, leisure, education and training, social connections and relationships, environment, education, material living standards, personal activities, work, political voice and governance, security,
What is a choropleth graph?
A map that uses graded differences in shading or colour or the placing of symbols inside defined areas on the map in order to indicate the quantity in those areas.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
State and federal laws that enforced racial segregation in the South of the United States
What was the domino theory?
The U.S believed that if Vietnam fell under communism, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the whole of Southeast Asia would fall under communism.
What is the biggest factor causing global warming?
Carbon dioxide emissions
What are spatial variations?
The differences in measures of human wellbeing that occur as a result of social, political and economic factors.
Which is longitude and which is latitude?
Lat is flat
In what year did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples get the right to vote?
1962
Who were the Viet Cong?
Communist guerilla forces from North Vietnam
What is the greenhouse effect?
What does HDI stand for?
Human Development Index
Name all the oceans and two seas.
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean and two seas.
Who paved the way for Native Titles to be introduced?
*Native titles recognise that Indigenous Australians have a prior claim to land taken by the British Crown since 1770.
Eddie Mabo
What was signed to withdraw US troops and end the Vietnam War?
The Paris Peace Accords
What is a fossil fuel?
A natural fuel formed in part from the remains of living things.
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Emigrate means to leave one location, such as one's native country or region, to live in another. Immigrate means to move into a non-native country or region to live.