Chapter 5 - Where Do Australians Live Flashcards
Pull Factor
Attracts a person or a group of people to a country
Four factors that influence the liveability of places
Available resources
Employment
Relationships with other people
Lifestyle
Urban Decay
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
Remote
Describe a place that is distant from major population centres
Sparse
Thinly scattered or unevenly distributed; often used when referring to population density
Why did so many soldier settlements fail after WWI?
Because the soldiers were not always suited for farming. Farms were often too small and farmers didn’t have enough money to invest in stock or equipment.
Irrigation
We ater provided to crops and orchards by hoses, channels, sprays or drip systems in order to supplement rainfall
Horticulture
The growing of garden crops such as fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts
Two natural factors and two human factors
that might have in uenced people to choose to live in the Grif th area.
Natural: Fertile Land and Flat Land
Human: Work opportunities and Quieter lifestyle
Sea change
The act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small coastal town
Push factors
Reasons that encourage people to leave a place and go somewhere else
FIFO
Describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work 4-, 8- or12-day shifts and then fly home