Year 12 · VCE / Geography
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Geography
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- Name the seven categories of present-day global land cover used in VCE Geography.
- Distinguish between 'land cover' and 'land use'.
- Where is forest land cover mainly concentrated globally today?
- Where is tundra land cover distributed, and what defines it?
- What were the two key periods used to compare past global land cover, and roughly when did they occur?
- Define a glacier and an ice sheet.
- State two natural characteristics of forests as a land cover.
- What are the two land-cover-change processes studied in Unit 3 AOS1?
- Explain the role of natural processes versus human activity in melting glaciers and ice sheets.
- Define the ice-albedo feedback and its role in melting ice.
- List three main human causes of deforestation globally.
- Where is deforestation most concentrated today?
- Define remote sensing and give one use in monitoring land cover change.
- What does 'spatial association' mean as a geographic concept?
- For a selected glacier-melt location, name one common environmental impact of the change.
- Identify one social and one economic impact of melting glaciers/ice sheets.
- Give one local/national response and one global response to glacier and ice-sheet melting.
- Name one environmental, one economic and one social impact of deforestation.
- State one local/national and one global response to deforestation.
- What is REDD+?
- When evaluating the effectiveness of a response, name three criteria you could apply.
- What is the difference between 'effectiveness' and 'likely effectiveness' in evaluating responses?
- In Unit 3 AOS2, what is investigated through fieldwork?
- Distinguish between primary and secondary data in a fieldwork investigation.
- Why is the interconnection of a study area with its surrounding region important in a land use change investigation?
- Name three factors that can influence a local land use change.
- What is a GIS (Geographic Information System) and one way it aids land use management?
- Define a topographic map and state two features it shows.
- Describe the broad spatial distribution of the present-day global population.
- Define birth rate and death rate (crude rates).
- Define total fertility rate and state the approximate replacement level.
- Define infant mortality rate and explain why it is a useful indicator.
- Define life expectancy.
- What is the formula for the rate of natural increase, and what is it usually expressed as?
- How has global population growth changed since the 1700s?
- What is projected for global population in the 21st century?
- What is a population (age-sex) pyramid and what does it show?
- Contrast the pyramid shape of a rapidly growing population with that of an ageing population.
- Define the dependency ratio.
- Distinguish between voluntary and forced population movements.
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