GEOS1002 Introductory Geography - Final Exam

You should answer all 10 questions. Each question is worth 4.5 marks, for a total of 45
marks.

Max word length: 500 words per answer (not including references and figures)

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and upload your answers.

1. What does it mean to “think geographically”?

2. Why do some natural hazards (such as bushfires, floods, tropical storms or earthquakes)
produce greater disaster risk than others?

3. Why are Australia’s geomorphic landscapes often described as ‘old, flat, and red’?

4. Australia is influenced by a range of atmospheric processes, at multiple spatial and
temporal scales. Show how one atmospheric process at the global scale, and one
atmospheric process at the regional scale, influence Australia’s weather and climate.

5. Define ecological resilience, and discuss one example in which resilience of a
socioecological system has been altered by human activities.

6. In what ways does Indigenous geography offer a critical lens to the broader discipline of
geography?

7. The rural is often defined as what is ‘not urban’. Explain why this is problematic by
referring to rural imaginaries and realities.

8. Why, and in what ways, does place continue to matter in the global economy?

9. Using contrasting examples from different industries, explain the essential
characteristics of global production networks.

10. How is the ‘space of flows’ related to the ‘space of places’?