Humanities

Question 1

Section A: Definitions

Answer 1

These questions will require you to give the definition to some or all of the following words.

Question 2

Liveability

Answer 2

The state of a place in terms of living. If a place is liveable, it is suitable for living in.

Question 3

Place

Answer 3

A region or an area in the world.

Question 4

Location

Answer 4

A place or geographical location in the world.

Question 5

Metropolitan

Answer 5

Relating to the major or large cities, its surrounding regions, etc.

Question 6

Accessibility

Answer 6

The status of how easily something can be reached or used.

Question 7

Service

Answer 7

A supply of utilities, e.g. Water, electricity and gas.

Question 8

Facility

Answer 8

Something that is designed to serve or accommodate, e.g. Education.

Question 9

Urban Sprawl

Answer 9

An uncontrollable spread of developing in neighbouring regions.

Question 10

Housing Density

Answer 10

How dense the houses are; for example, if a suburb has low housing density, they usually have only one or two storeys per house. If a suburb has high density, they would have 10 or more storeys per building.

Question 11

Population Density

Answer 11

How densely populated a place is; for example, Australia is a very big country, yet only 24 million people live here. It is a very sparse country. Bangladesh is a country not as big, yet there are far more people living there than people living in Australia. Bangladesh is a very densely populated country.

Question 12

Demographics

Answer 12

Data concerning a population. This could be anything from age range, literacy rates, or average income per year.

Question 13

Community

Answer 13

A social group of people that live together.

Question 14

Social Connectedness

Answer 14

The way that people interact with each other. This can be relationships or events, etc.

Question 15

Isolation

Answer 15

The state of being isolated, solitary or separated from others. Towns can be isolated, too.

Question 16

Environmental Quality

Answer 16

The quality of the environment. How good the environment is for a certain location.

Question 17

Rural

Answer 17

Related to or concerning living in the countryside.

Question 18

Remote

Answer 18

To describe places where services prove difficult to access.

Question 19

Phenomena

Answer 19

A scenario or circumstance that is observed within nature.

Question 20

Orientation

Answer 20

One’s position in the world, usually compared to (true) North.

Question 21

Sustainability

Answer 21

The ability or status of being sustained or supported. This usually is to do with living, or life.

Question 22

Section B: Multiple Choice

Answer 22

This section requires you to know the following to answer the questions in this section.

Question 23

Reasons for influencing people’s choice of environment

Answer 23

There are many factors for someone choosing somewhere to live. These factors include accessibility to resources, sanitation, health, crime rate, traffic rate, culture, housing, shopping access, public transport and many others.Different people like different things, Many older people would prefer a lower crime rate to feel safe, a park or two to stroll in, and a place where it’s nice and quiet. Businessmen would prefer big houses to boast about, or good access to internet if it’s important for their business. Families may choose somewhere close to schools for their kids, and somewhere where they feel safe as well.

Question 24

Percentages for Australians living in the Five different categories on the Remoteness Appendix (Major Cities includes Major and Other cities.)

Answer 24

Major Cities: 61.6%
Other Cities: 13.8%
Inner Regional: 6.4%
Outer Regional: 6.3%
Other Regional: 9.2%
Remote: 1.2%
Highly Remote: 1.6%

Question 25

Cities in the world that were built for the purposes of administration and government.

Answer 25

These are capital cities. Some of the countries in the world ad planned them. Canberra is an example of one. It was carefully planned by Walter Burley Griffin, who won the competition planned to design Canberra. It is halfway between Melbourne and Sydney, the two cities which were vying for capitalship, and has the parliamentary triangle, with a famous building at each point, as well as a municipal and water axis, which run parallel to each other, and a land axis, which runs along the bridge that crosses Lake Burley Griffin, and intersects the two axes.

Question 26

Demographic Characteristics

Answer 26

These are any patterns or trends you can see in the population, such as “the majority of the people living here are over 50,” or “there are many more males living here than females. Then, you draw conclusions, like “This is because there is a retirement village and the majority of the population live in there.”

Question 27

Australian government responsibilities in relation to our growing population and housing.

Answer 27

Australia is a growing country, especially with refugees and asylum seekers. Australia is working to make stricter borders to prevent too many of them coming in. As a result, Australia is working to prevent overpopulation, especially with how little land here is liveable. That is one of the ways that the government is influencing population growth.

Question 28

Section C: Data Analysis

Answer 28

This section requires you to to draw conclusions from your pictures and maps that you have with you in the exam, as well as using and annotating a map.

Question 29

Drawing conclusions

Answer 29

With the information you have gathered from your surveys that you also have with you in the exam, you must make conclusions. What patterns or trends do you see? What can you deduce from this information? And so on.

Question 30

Sketch Map

Answer 30

For your pictures, you must make a sketch map and also draw conclusions from there.

Question 31

Annotating

Answer 31

For your maps, you must highlight and give reasons for why your local area would be or not be liveable.

Question 32

Best of luck for your Humanities Exam.

Answer 32

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