SAC revision

Question 1

State the abbreviation for the main land uses.

Answer 1

DRINCT

Question 2

State the expanded form of the abbreviation for the main land uses.

Answer 2

Dwellings.
Recreational areas.
Industrial use.
Nature protection areas.
Cultivated lands.
Transport routes.

Question 3

Outline the current land uses within Sunbury with examples.

Answer 3

As a peri-urban town, Sunbury supports a varyingly mixed amount of land uses. These land uses are evidently seen as bearing a range of ‘nature protection areas’ e.g Holden and Flora reserve; ‘cultivated lands’ e.g Goonawarra vineyard; ‘recreational areas’ e.g Reading Cinema; ‘transport routes’ e.g Gap rd; ‘dwellings’ e.g Sherwood; and ‘industrial use’ e.g Goonawarra Winery.

Question 4

List a at least 5 different NATURAL geographic characteristics of Sunbury.

Answer 4

Holden Flora Reserve.
Evans Street Wildflower Reserve.
Jacksons Creek.
Emu Creek.
Emu Bottoms Wetlands Reserve.
Western Victorian Volcanic Plains.
Sunbury Recreation Reserve.

Question 5

List a at least 5 different HUMAN geographic characteristics of Sunbury.

Answer 5

Goonawarra Vineyard.
Rupertswood Mansion.
Sunbury Asylum.
Sunbury Square.
Sunbury Railway Station.
Salesian College Rupertswood.
Clarke Oval.

Question 6

List the geographic characteristics which earmarked it as an Urban Growth Corridor.

Answer 6

Flatness of Western Victorian Volcanic Plains.
Proximity to Melbourne airport.
Large amounts of cheap land.
Sunbury Railway Station.

Question 7

Define ‘earmark’.

Answer 7

To designate (funds or resources) for a particular purpose.

Question 8

State the definition of land use.

Answer 8

Land use is the purpose to which land cover is committed.

Question 9

Describe the relative location of Sunbury.

Answer 9

Sunbury is a town located Australia, Victoria. It is approximately 40km North West of Melbourne’s CBD and known to be in Northern Westerly sector of the city of Hume. It is bounded in the North and South by Jacksons Creek; in the East by Emu Creek and in the West by the Calder Freeway.

Question 9

List the acronym for economic conditions.

And the expanded meaning.

Answer 9

BUPE

Business count.
Unemployment rate.
Pay median.
Employed total.

Question 10

List the acronym for social conditions.

And the expanded meaning.

Answer 10

POFA

Population.
Overseas born.
Foreign language usage.
Age median.

Question 11

List the following social conditions in Sunbury:
Population.
Overseas born.
Foreign language usage.
Age median.

Answer 11

Pop 38,000
Total born overseas 20%.
Other language 8%.
37 years old.

Question 12

List the negative impacts of land use change in Sunbury.

Think SHEE/PPT

Answer 12

Environmental/physical:
Rural/urban blight from neglectful land owners waiting for land prices to increase.
Increase in pollution from litter.
Increase in run off -> increase in pollution to waterways.

Social:
Increase in traffic
Loss of ‘country town’ feel.
Larger commutes to Melbourne

Question 13

List the positive impacts of land use change in Sunbury.

Think SHEE/PPT

Answer 13

Positive:
Social:
Increase in positive portrayal of Australia.

Economic:
Increase in job opportunities.

Question 15

List the following economic conditions in Sunbury.
Business count.
Unemployment rate.
Pay median.
Employed total.

Answer 15

Businesses 2,400.
4.4% unemployment.
50,000 $
19,700 persons employed.

Question 16

When was ‘Plan Melbourne’ introduced?
What does it outline?
What is its aim?

Answer 16

Released in 2014.
It outlines the vision for Melbournes growth in the years to 2050.
To reflect a long term vision for housing.
Increase jobs and liveability.
Integrate public transport and infrastructure.
Address climate change.

Question 17

When did the government accept a decision to add Hume in the UGB?

Answer 17

2012