Place and Liveability Revision

Place

100

Which coast of Australia is the most populated?

The East Coast

200

By population, which city is the world's largest?

Tokyo - 24 million people

300

What significance would Uluru have to the local Aboriginal population?

Cultural/historical

400

Which of the following factors would NOT influence the cultural characteristics of a place? Language, Climate, Government, or Religion

Climate

500

What is the name given to areas outside of urban and metropolitan centres where people live?

Rural and regional areas

Liveability

100

Which Australian city has been rated as the world's most liveable in 2024?

Melbourne 

200

Name and example of a man-made hazard that may impact the liveability of an area.

Examples may include: crime, war, pollution, poverty.

300

Services and facilities such as roads, public transport, post offices and electricity are all examples of...

Infrastructure

400

What factor relates to the cost of living, availability of jobs and the price of housing?

Economic factors

500

What is the name given to the measurement of livability in cities across the world?

The Livability Index

General Geography

100

What two factors does a climate graph measure?

Temperature and rainfall

200

What is the best definition of a landform?

• (A) The difference in altitude between the highest and lowest points in a small geographical area
• (B) An area, created by a combination of geological, geomorphological, biological and cultural layers that have evolved over time
• (C) The individual surface features of the Earth identified by their shape
• (D) The location and arrangement of particular phenomena or activities across the surface of the Earth

C - The individual surface features of the Earth identified by their shape

300

Name the 6 features all good maps should contain.

Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale and Source.

400

This continent is home to the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes Mountains

South America 

500

Changes in global temperatures and rainfall as a result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is known as...

Climate change

Sustainability

100

The practice of producing food in stacked layers is known as...

Vertical farming

200

Electricity produced from photo-voltaic panels on the roofs of buildings is known as...

Solar power

300

What are two examples of non-renewable (fossil fuel) resources?

Examples could include: Oil, natural gas or coal.

400

Water that is pushed through a turbine to create electricity is known as...

Hydroelectricity

500

Which fossil fuel is the highest source of greenhouse emissions?

Coal

Miscellaneous

100

A group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity is known as a...

Windfarm

200

What is the line of longitude, located at 0°, that runs through Greenwich, England, and is used as the starting point for measuring time zones called?

Prime Meridian

300

What continent is the only one without a permanent human population?

Antarctica

400

Which of the following are all factors that explain why people’s perceptions of the liveability of places vary?

• (A) Age, stage of life, financial status
• (B) Gender, marital status, favourite food
• (C) Social media, access to transport, geographic location
• (D) Place, change, scale

A - Age, stage of life, financial status

500

This sea, bordered by more than 20 countries including Turkey, Greece, and Italy, was the centre of trade and culture for ancient civilisations like the Romans and Egyptians.

Mediterranean Sea