Chapter 5

Question 1

What is a push factor?

Answer 1

Push factors are reasons that encourage people to leave a place and go somewhere else.E.g natural disasters ,no job opportunities and no family or friends

Question 2

What is a pull factor?

Answer 2

Pull factors are positive aspects of a place that attract people to come and live in a place.E.g job opportunities,family and friends that might live there and peaceful country

Question 3

What are the four factors that influence the liveability of places or why people decide to live there.

Answer 3

Four factors that influence the liveability of a place are 1. Available resources(money),2.employment,3.relationships with other people(for example,wanting to be near family or move for a partners job) and 4. Lifestyle

Question 4

Urban Decay

Answer 4

A situation in which a city area has fallen into a state of disrepair through its people leaving the area or not having enough resources to look after them

Question 5

Remote

Answer 5

describes a place that is distant from major population centres

Question 6

Fly in, fly out (FIFO)

Answer 6

describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work 4,8 or 12-day shifts and then fly home

Question 7

Sparse

Answer 7

thinly scattered or unevenly distributed; often used when referring to population density

Question 8

Why did so many soldier settlements fail after ww1

Answer 8

So many soldier settlements failed after ww1 because the soldiers weren’t suited to farming.Farms were too small and soldiers did not have enough money for equipment and stock

Question 9

Irrigation

Answer 9

water provided to crops and orchards by hoses, channels, sprays or drip systems in order to supplement rainfall

Question 10

Horticulture

Answer 10

the growing of garden crops such as fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts

Question 11

Sea change

Answer 11

the act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small coastal town.e.g someone who leaves Melbourne to live in Cardwell,Queensland

Question 12

Tree change

Answer 12

the act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small country town, in the bush, or on the land as a farmer.E.g a person who leaves Melbourne to go Bendigo

Question 13

Identify two natural factors an two human factors that might have influenced people to choose the Griffith area

Answer 13

Two natural factors that have influenced people to move to Griffith are fertile land for farming and a good climate.Two human factors that may pull someone to Griffith are job opportunities and public transport.