Getting Better Grades

Construct a balanced short answer explaining how urbanisation can support economic growth and GDP while also creating social and environmental challenges, including slum development.

Describe common living conditions in slums and explain how rapid urbanisation can contribute to those conditions.

Explain what an ecological footprint measures and how a city's footprint is estimated.

Recommend features and actions that help a city meet sustainability objectives and reduce its ecological footprint.

Classify migration examples as internal or international, immigration or emigration, and permanent, temporary, or seasonal.

Explain how push and pull factors can combine to cause rural-to-urban migration, migration to Australia, or movement within Australia.

Interpret net interstate migration data and explain how migration information helps governments plan services and infrastructure.

Construct an evidence-based short answer that describes Australia's uneven population distribution, identifies areas of high and low concentration, and explains why the population is concentrated near the coast.