QCE GeographyPractice Examination 16

This paper covers

• Unit 3: Responding to Land Cover Transformations — deforestation, biogeochemical carbon cycle, albedo feedbacks, enhanced greenhouse effect, REDD+ mechanisms
• Unit 3: Remote sensing and satellite imagery for measuring forest carbon stocks and land cover change in Borneo
• Unit 3: Palm oil agriculture as a driver of land cover transformation at regional and local scales
• Unit 3: Indigenous land rights and community-based forest management as a management response to deforestation
• Unit 4: Population distribution and demographic change in Borneo/Indonesia/Malaysia contexts
• Unit 4: Voluntary and forced migration — displacement of Indigenous Dayak peoples by deforestation and plantation expansion
• Unit 4: Managing demographic challenges — impacts of plantation labour migration on place of origin and destination
• Geographic skills: interpreting satellite imagery, NDVI data, carbon stock graphs, and deforestation rate tables
• Geographical terminology: net primary productivity, biomass, carbon sequestration, albedo, biogeochemical cycle, REDD+, demographic transition, dependency ratio
• Multi-stimulus analysis: synthesising spatial, temporal, and demographic data to assess the Borneo deforestation challenge

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.