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Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Geography are available as PDF documents. Geography: Sequence of content 7-10 Geography: Sequence of achievement 7-10

PDF documents | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

ACHGK037

Classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource

Elaborations ScOT Terms

There are two units of study in the Year 7 curriculum for Geography: ‘Water in the world’ and ‘Place and liveability’. ‘Water in the world’ focuses on water as an example of a renewable environmental resource. This unit examines the many uses of water, …

Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACHGK037

classifying resources into renewable, non-renewable and continuous resources, and investigating examples of each type

ACHGK039

The quantity and variability of Australia’s water resources compared with other continents

Elaborations ScOT Terms

Structure Geography

The Australian Curriculum: Geography is organised in two related strands: geographical knowledge and understanding, and geographical inquiry and skills. Geographical knowledge and understanding strand Geographical knowledge refers to the facts, generalisations, …

Structure | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACHGK077

examining how access to natural resources (for example, minerals and water) can affect wellbeing and be a source of conflict

Elaboration ACHGK040

investigating the causes of water scarcity (for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic), or the ways water is used)

Elaboration (3) ACHGK063

investigating the impacts of alterations of biomes on the productivity and availability of staple resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (for example, murnong or yam daisy in Victoria)

Elaboration (2) ACHGK053

describing how the effects caused by geomorphological hazards are influenced by social, cultural and economic factors (for example, where people choose to live, poverty, and lack of infrastructure and resources to prepare and respond)

Elaboration ACHGK062

describing how environmental factors (for example, climate, soil, landform and water), can support higher crop yields and investigating the environmental constraints on agricultural production in Australia (for example, soil moisture, water resources …

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