Year 7 Place and Liveability

What is the definition of liveability?

• Assessment of what a place is like to live in, using particular criteria, for example, environmental quality, crime and safety, education and health provision, access to shops and services, recreational facilities and cultural activities.

• An excessive amount of noise that may make completing activities in a place difficult or impossible.

• The area around the student’s home or school that can be explored in a few hours.

• The organisation of systems such as roads, transport and communication systems that serve an area, country or region.

Which picture depicts an urban area?

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Access to services e.g. shops and schools are examples of liveability criteria

• True

• False

What does the O stand for in BOLTSS?

• Optional

• Oreos

• Orientation

• Organs

Which of these are reasons people move to a place?

• High crime rate

• Access to goods and services

• Nice climate

• Close to family and friends

What is liveability

• A fun place to live

• Someone’s perception of how nice a place is to live in

• A bad place to live

• A name

What is HDI?

• Human Diversity Index

• Helpful Development Indicator

• Human Development Index

• Helpful Diversity Indicator

What does the Human Development Index assess?

• Health

• Education

• Standard of living

• Economic growth

A developing country is

• less developed industrially, and has a low HDI compared to other countries

• highly developed industrially, and has a high HDI compared to other countries

Measuring how friendly an area is to walking is known as....

• Distribution

• Liveability

• Density

• Walkability