Ecosystem at Risk
This term refers to the state of being exposed to the possibility of being harmed.
What is vulnerability?
World cities act as headquarters for these multinational corporations, which have significant global influence on production, trade, and economic decisions.
What is TNCs?
These tours are designed for travelers who prefer to experience local culture and history with minimal impact on the environment.
What is Ecotourism?
The world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi).
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
These lines on a topographic map connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
Totemism or subsistence fishing is an example of what type of management strategy?
The term used to describe how regional centres absorb the population of small towns causing their demise.
What is the "The Sponge Effect"?
This term refers to the large-scale movement of tourists that can overwhelm local infrastructures, often leading to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization.
What is Overtourism?
This invasive species and prolific breeder was introduced in the early 1900s has made a large impact on the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment.
What is Carp?
This type of graph shows the relative proportion of three variables, often used in geography to display land use or population composition.
What is a Ternary Graph?
This management approach focuses on maintaining ecosystems without human use, often using strategies like exclusion and legislation (PUCE)
What is Preservation?
Hosting major cultural events, such as Wimbledon and the Olympics, gives world cities this form of authority, making them centers for global social networks and entertainment.
What is Cultural Authority?
This country is the largest spender on international travel, with tourists from here spending over $261 billion globally in 2016.
What is China?
Introduced in 2004, this plan created zones in the Great Barrier Reef with different rules for fishing and tourism activities and is managed by the GBRMPA
What is Zoning?
This method is used to enhance the vertical scale of a cross-section relative to its horizontal scale, making the terrain appear steeper.
What is Vertical Exageration?
This evaluation criterion examines whether a management strategy maintains biodiversity and ensures species survival.(ESD)
What is Maintainence of Biological Diversity?
Since 1950, cities in developing countries have joined traditional world cities in size and influence due to these two factors: high rates of natural increase and this type of migration.
What is Rural-Urban Migration?
This type of tourism package typically includes airfare, accommodation, and entertainment, sold together at a discounted price.
What is Package Tour?
A Suburb in Western Sydney located 30km from Sydney centre that has mainly a Vietnamese East Asian demographic and can be expressed as an Urban Village?
If the rise between two points is 100 meters and the run is 2,000 meters, the gradient is this fraction. 1: ...?
What is 1:20?
The term used to describe the amount of Biomass present in an ecosystem and energy that flows through it.
What is productivity?
Megacities are often reliant on this kind of economy, characterized by informal jobs that are neither regulated nor taxed.
What is informal Economy?
Located in Snow mountains, this is the central hub of activity and houses the majority of Perisher Ski resort Employees?
What is Jindabyne?
A type of housing architecture where rows of individual homes share side walls, giving streets a continuous and harmonious aesthetic. This is mostly found in the inner west and eastern suburbs of Paddington.
What is a Terrace House?
On a map with a 1:50,000 scale, this is the actual ground distance represented by 1 cm on the map.
What is 500m or 0.5 km?