HSC Geography 2025

Practice HSC Exam-Style Extended Response Questions

Ecosystems and Global Biodiversity: 

1. Evaluate management strategies and innovation in sustainability across TWO ecosystems you have studied (20 marks)

2. Compare the dynamics of ecosystem functioning of two ecosystems you have studied (20 marks)

3. Explain the importance of contemporary research on the continued management of TWO ecosystems you have studied (20 marks)

Rural and Urban Places

1. Evaluate responses to the challenges of living in a large city outside of Australia. Consider sustainability at an environmental, social and cultural level (20 marks)

2. Compare/contrast the challenges of living in rural and urban places (20 marks)

3.  Compare/contrast the processes (human and physical) shaping a place in a rural and urban setting (20 marks)

4. Explain the changes affecting a place in a rural and urban setting (20 marks)

5. Explain how sustainability can be addressed in rural and urban places (20 marks