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1. Rural decline occurs when people from rural areas move into urban areas and leave the rural areas with less population
2. Gulargambone is a small town north of Dubbo, halfway between Gilgandra and Coonamble. It lies in the Coonamble Shire Council area. It has extremes of heat in the summer, up to 45 degrees, and extreme cold in winter, around -5 degrees.
3. - The atmosphere is very dry and humid.
- The hydrosphere is also very dry, getting little rain.
- The Lithosphere of the town is pretty good. Although the town is usually dry it lies next
to a river which is also usually dry but flows underground.
4. Blocks of land allocated to veterans.
5. Gulargambone Cypress timber mill, Sheep wool, beef cattle and the production of cereal crops and oilseeds
7. 477 people lived in the town. 1072 live in farms and property around it.
8. The Community Development Employment Program
B) i - north-west
ii - north
iii - west-north-west
9. a) i - 148 degrees 16 minutes East, 31 degrees 17 minutes South
ii - 148 degrees 16 minutes East, 31 degrees 23 minutes South
iii - 148 degrees 22.5 minutes East, 21 degrees 14.5 South
d) i -
ii -