Chapter 5 - Where Do Australians Live

Question 1

Pull Factor

Answer 1

Attracts a person or a group of people to a country

Question 2

Four factors that influence the liveability of places

Answer 2

Available resources
Employment
Relationships with other people
Lifestyle

Question 3

Urban Decay

Answer 3

A situation in which a city area has fallen into a state of disrepair through its people leaving the area or not having enough resources to look after them

Question 4

Remote

Answer 4

Describe a place that is distant from major population centres

Question 5

Sparse

Answer 5

Thinly scattered or unevenly distributed; often used when referring to population density

Question 6

Why did so many soldier settlements fail after WWI?

Answer 6

Because the soldiers were not always suited for farming. Farms were often too small and farmers didn’t have enough money to invest in stock or equipment.

Question 7

Irrigation

Answer 7

We ater provided to crops and orchards by hoses, channels, sprays or drip systems in order to supplement rainfall

Question 8

Horticulture

Answer 8

The growing of garden crops such as fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts

Question 9

Two natural factors and two human factors
that might have in uenced people to choose to live in the Grif th area.

Answer 9

Natural: Fertile Land and Flat Land

Human: Work opportunities and Quieter lifestyle

Question 10

Sea change

Answer 10

The act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small coastal town

Question 11

Push factors

Answer 11

Reasons that encourage people to leave a place and go somewhere else

Question 12

FIFO

Answer 12

Describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work 4-, 8- or12-day shifts and then fly home