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Mmmmm Flashcards

1
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Size of Australia

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7682 million km

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Hemispheres

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Eastern and Southern

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Environment

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The natural world/surroundings

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Climate

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Long term variation of the atmosphere relating mainly to temperature and precipitation

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Scale

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Distance on a map represents distance in real life

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Elevation

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Somethings in relation to sea level

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Population density

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Population over area

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Exclusive economic zone

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Sea boundaries that a country has the exclusive rights to explore, exploit, conserve and manage

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Dreaming

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Stories that describe the dreamtime, a time in which Aboriginal people believe is how the world came to be

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Immigration

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The movement of people into a country

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Lake Eyre

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Australia’s lowest point, with an elevation of 15m below sea level

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Heatwave

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A prolonged period of abnormally hot weather

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Kinship

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Being in a familial relationship

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Drainage basin

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Area of land that feeds a river , or a whole area of land drained by a river and its tributaries

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High pressure system

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Area of sinking air, generally fine weather, winds rotate in an anti-clockwise direction

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Continental shelf

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The part of a continent found under shallow sea

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Indigenous

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The descendants of the original inhabitants of an area

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Endemic

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Native to a particular area and found nowhere else

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Low pressure system

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Area of rising air, generally cloudy weather with a good chance of rain, and winds rotate in a clockwise direction

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Australian land use

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Farming, mining, urban

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Distance

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The amount of space between two places

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Where do most Australians live?

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A narrow coastal strip from Brisbane to Adelaide. 86% live there

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Popukation if Oz

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24 million

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Budgerigars

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They feed on seeds produced by native plants. They are nomads, and in large flocks of a few thousand or more they follow the flowering cycle

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Camel

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Double row of eyelids to keep out glare and grit, it stores energy as fat in its hump and can swallow around 100L of water at a time

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Mulga

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They have specially designed leaves and branches that funnel rainfall to the base of the tree

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Termites

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Live in tall mounds of clay, they are protected inside the mound from the hot dry desert winds

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Spinifex

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Their leaves roll into tight cylinders during the hot desert day to reduce the surface area exposed to the sun. Spinifex roots spread deep and wide to pick up both ground and surface water.

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Rock wallabies

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Rest in shady caves and crevices during the hottest part of the day. When no grasses are available they can eat leaves, bark and roots

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Death adders

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Commonly found at night soaking up heat from the roads

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Bilbies

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Always stay close to one of several burrows they dig. These protect them from desert heat and predators

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Spinifex hopping mouse.

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It doesn’t sweat, its droppings are dry and its urine is very concentrated. A female feeds her young on concentrated milk and drinks their urine

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Honey ants

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Store food and water in their abdomen which swells up like a plastic bubble. When food is scarce they vomit up nectar to fee the colony

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Desert spadefoot toad

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Hibernates in burrows for most of the year, coming out to bread and lay eggs only when it rains

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Marsupial mole

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Is blind because it has no need for eyesight when living underground. It moves underground by ‘swimming’ through the sand

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Most easterly point

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Cape Bryon

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Most westerly point

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North west cape

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38
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Mast southerly point

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Wiston’s Promontory

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Most northerly point

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Cape York

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Large scale maps

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Show detailed info about a small area

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Small scale maps

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Show broad patterns of large areas

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42
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Mt Kosciuzko

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2228m above sea level

43
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What are Australian summers like?

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Hot, rainy

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What are winters like

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Mostly warm, pretty dry

45
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What does a clockwise arrow mean on a synoptic chart?

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It is around a low pressure system

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Anticlockwise arrow on a synoptic chart

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High pressure system

47
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What is a cold front?

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A line with triangles. It separates warm and cold air, with the cold air behind the front. Fall in temperature, may bring rain and storms. Front moves in the direction of the arrowheads

48
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How many seas are there?

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4

49
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What are the seas

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Timor sea, Tasman sea, Coral sea, Arafura sea

50
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Where is the Timor sea

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Off the north coast of WA

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Where is the Arafura sea?

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Off the top of NT

52
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Where is the coral sea

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Great Barrier reef area

53
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Where is the Tasman sea

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Down near Tas

54
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What is between Vic and Tas?

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The bass straigt

55
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Where is Kangaroo island?

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The biggish island off SA

56
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Where is Fraser Island?

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The island off QLD

57
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Where is the Cape York peninsula

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The long bit off the top of QLD

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Where is the Torres Straight

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Off the top of QLD

59
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What is the spot between the bits that come of the top of Oz

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The Gulf of Carpentania

60
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Where is the great dividing range?

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Along the coast of Vic, NSW and QLD

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Where are the Flinders Ranges

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SA, near the border of NSW

62
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Where are the McDonald ranges

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Bottom of NT

63
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Where are the Hemersly ranges

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WA next to North West Cape

64
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Where is the Sturt Stony desert

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Bottom of QLD, wedged in between NWS and SA

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Where is the Simpson Desert

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On the border lines of QLD, NT and SA

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Where is the great victorian desert

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WA near the SA border

67
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Where is the great sandy desert

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Middle but a little higher of WA

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Where is Barkley tableland

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Highish NT into QLD a little

69
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Where is Arnhem land

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Top of NT

70
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Where are the Kimberlys

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Top of WA

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Where is the north west shelf

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Off the north west of WA…

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Where is lake eyre

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SA, and if you were to extend the borders of NSW and NT so they met its about there

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How many digits is area reference?

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4

74
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How many digits is grid reference

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6

75
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Contour lines definition

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Lines on a topographic map to join places of equal height or elevation above sea level.

76
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What is the contour interval

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The height difference between the contour lines

77
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What does brown mean on a topographic map

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Natural features, including contour lines

78
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What does blue mean

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All water and river features

79
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What is green used for

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Vegetation and ground cover

80
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What is black and red used for

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Human features

81
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What does it mean if contour lines are close together

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It does be steep

82
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What sustainable energy does oz use

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Geothermal, wind, tidal, biomass(combustion of organic matter), solar and hydro-electric

83
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How do we manage hazards

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Preparing-eg clearing area around house for bushfire, preventing-don’t live on flood plains, recognising and responding to hazards so quickly they can’t turn into disasters

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What is bushfire

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A fire burning out of control in the open

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What causes bushfires

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Lightning, spontaneous combustion and arsonists

86
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What is surface fire

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Burn grass, low shrubs, and ground litter, high speed, relatively easy to control.

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Crown fire

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Crowns of trees on fire, hard to control, very bad with winds and dry trees

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Cost of bushfires

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In Vic alone, billions of dollars

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Community response to bushfire

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Volunteers for brigade, banding together to raise money, etc

90
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Government response to bushfires

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They set up agencies to protect communities against bushfires

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Species

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A group of plants or animals of the same kind that are able to breed with each other

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Regolith

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The layer of broken rock and soil on top of the solid rock of the Earth’s crust, also known as mantle rock

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Perspective

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A way of viewing the world

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Epicentre

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The point on the earths surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

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Standard of living

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The amount of goods and services, mainly food, clothing, housing, education and health, that is available for use in the community per head of population

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Emmigration

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The movement of people out of a country

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Drought

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A prolonged period of below average percipitation

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Net overseas migration

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The number of people migrating to a country minus the number of people emigrating to live in other countries. It is expressed as a percentage of the total population

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Natural increase

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The excess of births over deaths, usually expressed as a percentage

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Community

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Group formed by people with something in common and based on a shared space and social organisation

101
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What factors can contribute to a sense of identity and community?

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Culture, heritage, place, occupation, gender, religion, hobbies, sports

102
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What are three effects on the physical environment of climate change

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60% of the great barrier reef could be bleached, vertebrates in the World Heritage Wet Tropics would lose half their habitat, snow covered alpine areas shrink by 10%-40%

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What are three impacts of climate change on the human environment

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Twice as many people exposed to flooding, malaria zones spread southward, population at risk from dengue fever increase from 0.17 million to 0.17-1.6 million

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