Humanities Flashcards
Section A: Definitions
These questions will require you to give the definition to some or all of the following words.
Liveability
The state of a place in terms of living. If a place is liveable, it is suitable for living in.
Place
A region or an area in the world.
Location
A place or geographical location in the world.
Metropolitan
Relating to the major or large cities, its surrounding regions, etc.
Accessibility
The status of how easily something can be reached or used.
Service
A supply of utilities, e.g. Water, electricity and gas.
Facility
Something that is designed to serve or accommodate, e.g. Education.
Urban Sprawl
An uncontrollable spread of developing in neighbouring regions.
Housing Density
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.
Population Density
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.
Demographics
Data concerning a population. This could be anything from age range, literacy rates, or average income per year.
Community
A social group of people that live together.
Social Connectedness
The way that people interact with each other. This can be relationships or events, etc.
Isolation
The state of being isolated, solitary or separated from others. Towns can be isolated, too.
Environmental Quality
The quality of the environment. How good the environment is for a certain location.
Rural
Related to or concerning living in the countryside.
Remote
To describe places where services prove difficult to access.
Phenomena
A scenario or circumstance that is observed within nature.
Orientation
One’s position in the world, usually compared to (true) North.
Sustainability
The ability or status of being sustained or supported. This usually is to do with living, or life.
Section B: Multiple Choice
This section requires you to know the following to answer the questions in this section.
Reasons for influencing people’s choice of environment
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.
Percentages for Australians living in the Five different categories on the Remoteness Appendix (Major Cities includes Major and Other cities.)
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%
Cities in the world that were built for the purposes of administration and government.
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.
Demographic Characteristics
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.”
Australian government responsibilities in relation to our growing population and housing.
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.
Section C: Data Analysis
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.
Drawing conclusions
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.
Sketch Map
For your pictures, you must make a sketch map and also draw conclusions from there.
Annotating
For your maps, you must highlight and give reasons for why your local area would be or not be liveable.
Best of luck for your Humanities Exam.
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