motivations Flashcards
What is nature?
Living things, ecosystems and processes that form them and where you find them.
what is mother nature?
Mother nature is called mother nature as the mother nurtures a baby and a baby can not live without the mother.
what is a built environment?
Recreation of already existing natural environments.
what is an urban environment?
Area of permanent infrastructure for high densities
what is wilderness?
big, remote and untouched
what is motivation?
the drive to do something, reasoning behind a persons desire to do something
what is a managed park?
What is an alpine
any high mountain area above a certain altitude.
where are the alps located?
The Victorian alps encompasses approximately 500,000 hectares
of the northeast and east of the state and extend along the Great
Dividing Range, including Isolate plateaus such as Lake Mountain,
Mount Baw Baw and Mount Buffalo.
2 facts of alps, endangered species.
baw baw frog, pygmy possum, covered in snow for 3+ months, Only 0.5 per cent of Australia is truly ‘ treeless’ alpine.
What is a grass land, location?
Large open areas of grass, Prior to European settlement, grasslands covered the plains
between the Murray Valley and the Great Dividing Range.
2 grassland facts, endangered species
-1% of vic is grassland, Very few tress, and very good soil for growing
crops (volcanic), Bush Stone-curlew, Eastern
Barred Bandicoot and Striped Legless Lizard
what is the coast, location?
2 coast facts, endangered species
marine environemts location, def
