Answer Key for True/False and Map Skills (14-year-old student) — Vanuatu classroom worksheet

SECTION C — TRUE OR FALSE (Answers with short explanations)

1. True. Many small villages and local markets in Vanuatu prefer cash because card machines and reliable electronic payments are not always available.
2. False. ATMs can charge fees and some give poor exchange rates. The best rate is not guaranteed and extra bank/ATM fees can apply.
3. False. If inflation is high, prices rise, so 1,000 VT will buy fewer goods today than it did last year (your money loses purchasing power).
4. False. The CPI (Consumer Price Index) basket is made of commonly bought goods and services (food, transport, housing, clothing), not only luxury items.
5. True. Deflation means the general level of prices is falling over time.
6. False. Not all tourists travel only for pleasure — some travel for business, study, health, visiting family, conferences, or work.
7. True. Before paper money, people in Vanuatu sometimes used items like pigs (with valuable curved tusks) and woven mats as mediums of exchange.
8. True. A budget helps you track income and spending and shows areas where you can reduce expenses and save.
9. False. Exchange rates change all the time because of trade, interest rates, inflation differences, and market forces — the Vatu’s value compared to the Australian Dollar does change.
10. True. Tourism services include accommodation, transport, food (restaurants) and entertainment (tours, shows, activities).

SECTION D — MAP SKILLS

1. Where to mark the environments (use a small dot or shaded area and label):

• Great Australian Desert — mark the large arid area in central/southern Australia (around the interior: the Great Victoria Desert, Great Sandy Desert and Simpson Desert regions). Place the label roughly in central Australia, south of the tropic line.
• Sahara Desert — mark across northern Africa, stretching from the Atlantic coast (Mauritania/Morocco) in the west across Algeria, Libya and Egypt to the Red Sea and Sudan in the east.
• Amazon Basin / Tropical Rainforest — mark the northern half of South America around the Amazon River, mostly in northern Brazil and parts of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
• Greenland Desert — mark the ice-covered interior of Greenland (the central ice sheet). This is in the middle of the island, not the narrow coastal areas.

2. Colour and label climate zones (on the same map; choose those colours):

• Polar zones — Blue: colour the Arctic areas (northern Greenland, northern Canada, northern Russia) and Antarctica in blue.
• Temperate zones — Yellow: colour the mid-latitude bands in yellow — much of North America (U.S. and most of Canada’s south), Europe, parts of China, southern South America (Chile and Argentina), southern Australia and New Zealand.
• Tropical zone — Green: colour the area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn in green — central Africa, northern South America (Amazon), much of Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

3. Table — filled blanks (continent, country, capital, area):

Note: I filled only the blank cells requested (for Senegal I added the capital Dakar). However, the area number shown for Senegal (1,221,037 km²) is not the usual value for Senegal — the actual area of Senegal is about 196,722 km². The value 1,221,037 km² is close to the area of South Africa. If your teacher expects correct areas for every country, replace 1,221,037 with 196,722 for Senegal.

If you want, I can produce a printable version of the map with suggested dots, shading, and colour keys, or a clean table you can copy into your workbook.