Year seven

Geography
Homework
Booklet
Term Two
 Place and Liveability
Homework Tracker

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Week 1 – Lesson 2

Key skill – I can define key vocabulary and use it in a sentence.

Locate a definition for the following terms:

Place

Liveability

Knowing what these words mean, use them both in a sentence to explain what this terms unit
is about:
Week 2 – Lesson 1

Key skill – I can discover what makes people choose to live in a place.

The following survey is designed to identify the liveability score of a place. You will need to
ask 3 adults about the neighbourhood in which you live and then assess it against each of the
following liveability criteria.

1. Identify the place you investigating. In the space below, print a map of the local
neighbourhood/town. Be sure to include the conventions of BOLTSS.
PERSON 1
PERSON 2
PERSON 3
2. Tally the scores of your surveys and record your findings below:
Neighbourhood: .

Tally from survey

Person 1

Person 2

Person 3

Total Tally

Average Tally

3. Discuss the reasons for your ratings. Think: Do you believe the results of your survey
are an accurate score for the liveability of your local area? Explain your response.

4. Compare your survey results with other students. Do your liveability scores match
others? If no, why do you think that is?

Week 2 – Lesson 3
Key skill – I can create a map of my local area ensuring all conventions of BOLTSS have
been used.

Create a map of your local area, labelling the map with all local landmarks that are
important to you (my house, friends house, grandparents house, park, shops etc). Make sure
your map is coloured and meets all conventions of BOLTSS (Border, Orientation, Legend,
Title, Source, Scale)

Week 3 – Lesson 1
Key skill – I understand who our first nations people are and how they lived.

Read the following text, then answer the questions below.

The Indigenous tribes of the Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair people inhabited the Darling Downs
for at least 40,000 years before European settlement. Estimations place the Indigenous
population pre-settlement from 1500 to 2500 people. The Jagera people were of the foothills and
escarpment, Giabal were of the Toowoomba area and the Jarowair were of the northern areas
towards and including the Bunya Mountains. The Darling Downs was originally known as the
'upland area' and Indigenous people of this area used a technique in hunting food where they
would burn the grasslands as the new, green sprouts attracted animals. This earned them the
name "Gooneburra", or, "the ones who hunt with fire", by the coastal tribes.

What are the three Indigenous tribes that inhabited the Darling Downs?

Before European settlement, how many Indigenous people were estimated to live in the area?

Which Indigenous tribe inhabited the Toowoomba and Pittsworth area?

What was the Darling Downs originally known as?

What was the hunting technique used by the indigenous people?

What name did coastal tribes give them?

Week 3 – Lesson 2
Key skill – I use my research skills to locate information

Using the internet, locate the required information to complete the activities below.

Week 3 – Lesson 3
Key skill – I can comprehend a factual text

Read the text below, then answer the questions on the next page.
Week 4 – Lesson 1

Key skill – I can identify places I would like to live.

WOULD YOU RATHER? Below is a series of images that show places in Urban and Rural
settings. Identify which place you would rather live by circling the most attractive place to
you.
Week 4 – Lesson 2

Key skill – I can identify places I would like to live.

WOULD YOU RATHER? Below is a series of images that show places in Coastal and
Remote settings. Identify which place you would rather live by circling the most attractive
place to you.
Week 4 – Lesson 3

Key skill – I can identify factors that measure the liveability of a place.

Identify the key factors that are used to measure the liveability of a place and provide an
example of each in the liveability wheel below.
Week 5 – Lesson 1

Key skill – I can use data to create climate graphs.

Using the data-set below, create your own climate graph for New York City

Week 5 – Lesson 2-3

Key skill – I can comprehend a factual text

Read the text below to answer the questions following.

CASE STUDY: MOVING TO NOOSANGATTA

The warmer climate and stunning natural features of the south-east Queensland coastline mean this
region has many high-rating liveability factors. The region, in fact, has attracted many Australians,
particularly older people from New South Wales and Victoria, to make the move north. Just 50
years ago, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast were small holiday towns.

Today, the area has seen such extensive growth and development that the towns and cities along
this section of coastline may join together to form a continuous urban area known as a
megalopolis. Some geographers predict that Noosa in the north and Coolangatta in the south will
one day also join to form one vast urban area that some people have already nicknamed
‘Noosangatta’.

The high population growth in south-east Queensland over the last few decades has led to an
increasing demand for housing. As the suburban areas have spread, there has been a loss of 7500
hectares (75 square kilometres) of bushland and farms each year. The stunning natural features
and easy going lifestyle that attracted people to move to the area in the first place are coming
under threat. A victim of its own success, the area is in danger of becoming less liveable.

QUESTIONS

1. Why are many older Australians moving north to settle in south-east Queensland?

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2. Explain what is meant by the expression ‘a victim of its own success’.

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 3. Describe the importance of natural features such as rivers, mountains and coasts in
affecting the location and shape of cities. Use evidence from the map (Source 4.17) for
your description.

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4. Is it likely that the city of Toowoomba will join the Noosangatta megalopolis? Give
reasons for your answer.

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Week 6 – Lesson 1

Key skill – I can identify key vocabulary

Answer the following questions to complete the crossword on the next page.
Week 6 – Lesson 2

Key skill – I can interpret data about rainfall to

Choose one of the 10 most liveable cities in the world, according to the Global Liveability
Index. Use your research skills to discover more about your chosen city and list some of the
reasons why you think they city is considered such a high standard of living.

Next, find 9 friends (they do not have to be from your class) and swap a fact you know with
them. You will give them a fact and they will give you one. Write the name of the city and
the fact you are given. Be sure to get facts about cities you have not already researched.
Week 6 – Lesson 3

Key skill – I can identify what my assessment task is about

In a CER paragraph, explain how you will be assessed on your knowledge, understanding
and skills for this term.