Semester One Exams

Question 1

SPICESS

Answer 1

Space
Place
Interconnection
Change
Environmental 
Scale
Sustainability

Question 2

What are the seven types of landscapes?

Answer 2

The seven types of landscapes are karst, mountain, built, coastal, desert, riverine, tropical rainforest.

Question 3

How are volcanos formed?

Answer 3

Volcanos are formed when magma pushes its way from beneath the earths crust. The material comes out of the volcano and builds up the earths surfaces.

Question 4

What are tectonic plates?

Answer 4

two sub-layers of the earths crust that move, float and fractures and whose interactions causes continental drift, earthquakes.

Question 5

How are mountains formed?

Answer 5

Mountains are formed where the surface of the earth has been pushed upwards.

Question 6

Mount noorat- location, fact file.

Answer 6

Mount Noorat is located six kilometers north of Terang, Victoria, Australia, Noorat.

Question 7

What is Feudalism?

Answer 7

Feudalism is a way of organising society through a hierarchy which the most important at the top and the others ranked underneath in decreasing order of importance.

Question 8

What were the houses and towns like?

Answer 8

The houses were made out of wood and the roof were straw. The peasants did all the farm work and they had to grow crops. The Knights had to protect the kingdom and fight when people were attacking. The nobles and church officials collected taxes. And the loyals just sat around and sometimes checked on the kingdom.

Question 9

Who tortured the people? And why?

Answer 9

The people in the town tortured the person like if they steal or do something wrong.

Question 10

How did they treat witches?

Answer 10

They treated the witches by burning them on the stake.

Question 11

What influence did people believe the church had on their lives?

Answer 11

The people believed the church sent them to hell if they did something wrong by the church. They got there knowledge from there. Also if you didn’t go to church for no reason, everyone dismembered you and you couldn’t go anymore.

Question 12

How did the church react to the Black Death?

Answer 12

The church sent priests to go help but then they started dying so they hid so they wouldn’t catch it.

Question 13

What does natural and built mean?

Answer 13

The natural environment: it’s naturally on earth and its resources effect human survival and economic activity.

The built environment: is a man-made surrounding.

Question 14

Identify/ locate some famous mountains

Answer 14

Mount Vesuvius: located 9km east of Naples. It erupted in 1994.

Mount Fuji: located in Japan.
Mount Etna: located in Italy.
Mount St Helens: located in America.

Question 15

Products from a volcano.

Answer 15

Magma, lava, ash, gases.

Question 16

What impact do tectonic plates have on the environment?

Answer 16

Tectonic plates form things such as volcano eruptions, earthquakes, mountains, continental drifts.

Question 17

Type of mountains

Answer 17

Volcanic, block, and fold

Question 18

Different types of volcanos.

Answer 18

Dome, cinder cone, shield, and composite

Question 19

What are five famous oceans

Answer 19

Pacific Ocean, southern ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and artic ocean

Question 20

What does depopulation mean?

Answer 20

To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation.

Question 21

What are some long term effects of the Black Death?

Answer 21

Weakening of feudalism, peasant unrest, weakening of the church, Renaissance and the start of the slave trade.

Question 22

What are some short term effects of far the Black Death?

Answer 22

Depopulation, the effects on towns, impact of region, burial of the death, the peasants revolt.

Question 23

Impact of religion

Answer 23

Many religious people died and some saw this as proof that the lifestyles of these religious people had displeased God. Some thought God was punishing them.

Question 24

The peasants revolt

Answer 24

The peasants were often treated badly but after the Black Death they used it as an advantage of getting better pay and better rights but that was soon turned down when the Black Death wore off.

Question 25

Weakening of feudalism

Answer 25

The massive drop of population affected trade and manufacturing and food productions.

Question 26

What are five torture weapons

Answer 26

Breast ripper, tongue twister, rat cage, guillotine,

Question 27

Another name for Black Death

Answer 27

Bubonic plague

Question 28

What animals carried the Black Death?

Answer 28

Fleas and rats

Question 29

What’s a song for the Black Death

Answer 29

Ring around the Rosie

Question 30

How did you know if someone was a witch?

Answer 30

Dunk them under water and if they drown they are innocent and if the live they are guilty.