Year 9 Geography practice questions

Lock in’s Year 9 Geography course has 5 units with 83 flashcards and 82 practice questions, plus timed exams built fresh each time.

• Biomes and environmental changeWhat and where are biomes?; Factors that shape biomes; Altering biomes: environmental challenges; Managing biomes sustainably
• Food production and food securityFood production systems; Food security; Challenges to food security; Strategies for sustainable food security
• Urbanisation and migrationUrbanisation around the world; Migration: causes and types; Urban patterns in Australia; Changing places: effects of urban change
• Liveability and sustainable citiesMeasuring liveability; Challenges to liveability; Urban sustainability; Case studies and strategies
• Geographical tools and skillsMaps: references, direction and scale; Relief: contours, gradient and cross-sections; Climate graphs; Population pyramids and choropleth maps; Data, statistics and fieldwork

Try each question before you open the answer. Written answers show what a full-marks response needs to include.

1. Question 1. Biomes and environmental changeMultiple choice

   Which biome covers most of inland Australia?

   1. ATropical rainforest
   2. BDesert and arid shrubland
   3. CBoreal forest
   4. DTundra
   Show answer

   B. Desert and arid shrubland

2. Question 2. Food production and food securityMultiple choice

   Which is NOT one of the four pillars of food security?

   1. APopularity
   2. BAccess
   3. CStability
   4. DAvailability
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   A. Popularity

3. Question 3. Food production and food security: food production systems3 marks

   Describe the inputs, processes and outputs of a farm system, using an example.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. On an irrigated rice farm in the Riverina, inputs include land, water from the Murrumbidgee River, seed, fertiliser, machinery and labour. Processes include levelling and flooding the bays, sowing, managing weeds and harvesting. Outputs are rice grain for sale, along with straw and run-off as waste.

   A full-marks answer:

   • Inputs with examples (land, water, seed, labour, machinery, fertiliser)
   • Processes with examples (ploughing, sowing, irrigating, harvesting)
   • Outputs with examples (crops/livestock, plus waste) linked to a named farm type
4. Question 4. Urbanisation and migrationMultiple choice

   Urbanisation means…

   1. APeople leaving cities for farms
   2. BBuilding more farms
   3. CThe growth of forests
   4. DAn increasing proportion of people living in urban areas
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   D. An increasing proportion of people living in urban areas

5. Question 5. Urbanisation and migration: Urban patterns in Australia2 marks

   Outline the difference between urban sprawl and urban consolidation.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. Urban sprawl is the outward spread of low-density housing onto farmland and bushland on the edge of a city. Urban consolidation increases density within the existing city, for example by building apartments near railway stations.

   A full-marks answer:

   • Urban sprawl: low-density outward spread onto the rural fringe
   • Urban consolidation: increasing density within existing areas, e.g. apartments near transport
6. Question 6. Liveability and sustainable citiesMultiple choice

   Which of these is a category in the EIU liveability index?

   1. ANumber of beaches
   2. BAverage height
   3. CFootball results
   4. DHealth care
   Show answer

   D. Health care

Geography questions reward the right terms and real examples. Use data from the map, graph or table in your answer and quote the numbers. Practise grid references, scale and reading climate graphs until they are automatic, because they come up every year.

In Lock in, every Geography topic has short notes, then flashcards that use spaced repetition: rate each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy and it comes back just before you would forget it. Practice questions come in three levels, Foundation, Standard and Complex. Three right in a row moves you up a level, and two wrong moves you back.

Press Study for me and the app builds a 15 to 20 minute session from the cards that are due, the mistakes that are due and questions on your weakest topics. Anything you get wrong comes back 1, 3 and 7 days later until you get it right. When an exam is close, sit a timed practice exam with AI marking.

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