Key Concepts
The study of the relationship between people and their environments.
What is Geography?
The process where waves wear away the coastline.
What is erosion?
The gas released by cars that causes air pollution.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
The term for people travelling away from home for more than 24 hours for leisure, business, or other purposes.
What is tourism?
Rome’s most famous ancient monument.
What is the Colosseum?
When evaluating a management strategy, what should you consider?
Limitations, benefits and an overall judgement of the effectiveness
The Victorian town known for severe beach erosion and sandbag walls.
What is Inverloch?
The city in Victoria where air quality often worsens due to car use and winter wood smoke.
What is Melbourne?
Too many visitors at once cause this.
What is overtourism?
The main type of tourism that attracts people to Rome
What is cultural or heritage tourism?
A hazard becomes a disaster when this happens.
What is when it causes serious harm or loss?
Strong storm waves and rising sea levels
What are the main causes of coastal erosion at Inverloch?
Asthma or respiratory problems
What is one health effect of poor air quality?
Tourism that aims to protect the environment and benefit locals.
What is sustainable tourism or ecotourism?
This app helps manage tourist movement in Rome.
What is the POPGuide app?
How people and places are linked through natural processes or human activities — for example, global trade, tourism, or climate systems connecting different regions
What is interconnection?
Removing vegetation or building too close to dunes?
What is one human action that has worsened erosion near Inverloch?
A major source of air pollution in developing cities such as Delhi or Jakarta, and one reason it is difficult to manage.
What is vehicle and industrial emissions combined with weak enforcement or limited public transport infrastructure?
The three pillars of sustainability.
What are environmental, economic, and social/cultural when discussing sustainability?
One way Melbourne promotes sustainable tourism.
What is free public transport?
Explain what spatial association means and give one example related to air pollution.
What is when two spatial patterns are related — for example, high air pollution levels often occur near major roads or industrial areas?
A long-term management strategy to slow erosion.
What is dune revegetation or beach nourishment?
One government or community strategy used in Melbourne to reduce air pollution.
What is promoting public transport and electric vehicles, or running “no burn” air quality alerts?
Explain how globalisation has influenced patterns of international tourism.
What is that improved transport, communication, and technology have made travel faster, cheaper, and more connected, increasing international visitor flows and competition between destinations?
Explain how climate change is creating challenges for one type of tourism.
type of tourism.What is that rising temperatures and reduced snowfall are threatening snow tourism in Victoria’s alpine regions, reducing the reliability of ski seasons and increasing the need for artificial snowmaking?