Geography flashcards

39 VCE Geography cards across 2 modules (13 definitions, 26 key facts, 0 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Unit 3: Changing the land (20 cards, 7 dot points)
Unit 4: Human population - trends and issues (19 cards, 6 dot points)

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Definition
Deforestation as land cover change: VCE Geography
Define Commercial agriculture
Commercial agriculture is the single largest driver. In the Amazon, cattle ranching and soybean cultivation clear vast areas. In Borneo and Sumatra, oil palm plantations have replaced rainforest.
Definition
Rapid population growth challenges and responses: VCE Geography
Define Female education and empowerment
Female education and empowerment is the most effective long-term response, since educated women have fewer children later.
Definition
The global distribution of natural land cover: VCE Geography
Define Land cover
Land cover is the observed physical and biological material covering the surface of the Earth, including vegetation, water, ice, bare ground and built surfaces. Land use is the purpose humans apply to land, such as agriculture, mining, housing or conservation.
Definition
Migration and population movement: VCE Geography
Define Internal migration
Internal migration is movement within a country, such as rural-to-urban migration or movement between states.
Definition
Melting ice and snow cover as land cover change: VCE Geography
Define The albedo feedback
The albedo feedback is the key amplifying process: white ice reflects most sunlight, but once it melts the exposed dark ocean or land absorbs far more heat, warming the area further and melting still more ice. This is a self-reinforcing loop.
Definition
World population distribution and density: VCE Geography
Define Water
Water is essential, so people cluster along rivers (the Ganges, Nile, Yangtze) and coasts.
Definition
Salinity as land cover change: VCE Geography
Define Dryland salinity
Native deep-rooted vegetation such as eucalypts and mallee used most of the rainfall before it could sink deep. When this is cleared for shallow-rooted crops and pasture, more water passes through the soil, raising the water table and carrying stored salt to the surface. This is the dominant process across southern Australia.
Definition
Population dynamics and demographic transition: VCE Geography
Define Natural increase
Natural increase is the difference between the birth rate and the death rate. Where births exceed deaths the population grows naturally; where deaths exceed births it declines.
Key fact
Climate change and land cover change: VCE Geography
Tell me about How warming changes land cover
Bright sea ice reflects most of the sunlight that hits it, while open ocean absorbs most of it. As Arctic sea ice melts, the darker ocean absorbs more heat and warms further, melting more ice.
Key fact
Ageing population challenges and responses: VCE Geography
Tell me about Case study: Japan and Australia
Japan is the world's most aged major nation, with a very high share of people over 65 and a shrinking, declining population caused by very low fertility and high life expectancy.