FV Liveability
Valley Challenges
Random Geo
Australia
Thinking like a Geographer
100

The extent to which a place is safe, attractive, accessible and enjoyable to live in.

What is Liveability?

100

Meeting current needs without reducing the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

What is sustainability?

100

What is the capital city of the Northern Territory?

What is Darwin?

100

This river is generally recognised as Australia's longest.

What is the Murray?

100

This geographical concept examines how easy it is for people to reach services and destinations.

What is accessibility?

200

These pieces of data were collected during our excursion and include photographs, pedestrian counts and surveys.

What is primary data?

200

This urban phenomenon often results from large amounts of concrete, buildings and limited vegetation.  Think hot.

What is the Urban Heat Island Effect

200

This line on a topographic map joins places of equal elevation.

What is a contour line?

200

An ecological hazard becoming more prevalent in the Great Barrier Reef.

What is coral bleaching?

200

This type of data that comes from a website, such as the ABS is this.

What is secondary?

300

This transport feature makes Fortitude Valley highly accessible to workers, residents and visitors.

What is the FV train station?

300

Temperature data and shade observations would be useful evidence for investigating this issue.

What is heat stress and/or lack of shade?

300

This process describes the increasing proportion of people living in urban areas.

What is urbanisation?

300

This climate dominates much of central Australia.

What is arid (dry)?

300

This part of a field report explains what the data means and identifies patterns and relationships.

What is analysis?

400

This characteristic is reduced when there is little green space, limited shade and few opportunities for recreation.

What is liveability?

400

Fortitude Valley caters for predominantly this demographic

What are males in the 20 - 50 age category?

400

This was the first ever megacity on our planet.

What is New York?

400

This natural hazard occurs most frequently in northern Australia between November and April.

What is a tropical cyclone?

400

In your ISMG, this is the part where you make a suggestion.

What is proposing actions?

500

The building that sits above the FV Train Station

What is the McWhirters Building?

500

Who is the original artist who sings the song the busker sang to use just after lunch?

Who is Bob Marley?

500

Geographers use this acronym to describe computer systems that analyse spatial data.

What is GIS?

500

This city is Australia's 2nd largest by population.

What is Melbourne?

500

the most popular choice for lunch last Wednesday was.

What is GYG?