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 …
Elaboration | ACHGK062 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK063
exploring environmental challenges to food production from land degradation (soil erosion, salinity, desertification), industrial pollution, water scarcity and climate change
Elaboration | ACHGK063 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Year 9 Geography
There are two units of study in the Year 9 curriculum for Geography: ‘Biomes and food security’ and ‘Geographies of interconnections’. ‘Biomes and food security’ focuses on investigating the role of the biotic environment and its role in food and fibre …
Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Geography Year 9
By the end of Year 9, students explain how geographical processes change the characteristics of places. They analyse interconnections between people, places and environments and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGK063
Challenges to food production, including land and water degradation, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world
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ACHGK063 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK061
identifying the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems in flows of nutrients and water, and in biodiversity
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK061 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGK062
Environmental, economic and technological factors that influence crop yields in Australia and across the world
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ACHGK062 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGK061
Human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres, and the use of systems thinking to analyse the environmental effects of these alterations
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ACHGK061 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK062
evaluating the ways that agricultural innovations have changed some of the environmental limitations on and impacts of food production in Australia
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK062 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK068
exploring the environmental impacts of the consumer product on the places that produce the raw materials, make the product, and receive the wastes at the end of its life
Elaboration | ACHGK068 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGS071
Reflect on and evaluate findings of an inquiry to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic, political and social considerations; and explain the predicted …
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ACHGS071 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGS071
examining the environmental, economic and social factors that need to be considered in an investigation of a contemporary geographical issue such as ways of increasing Australian or global food production or the effects of information and communications …
Elaboration (1) | ACHGS071 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGS069
identifying the relevant layers of a geographical information system and using them to investigate how they can portray and analyse demographic, economic and environmental data
Elaboration | ACHGS069 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGS065
Represent multi-variable data in a range of appropriate forms, for example scatter plots, tables, field sketches and annotated diagrams, with and without the use of digital and spatial technologies
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ACHGS065 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
ACHGS070
Present findings, arguments and explanations in a range of appropriate communication forms, selected for their effectiveness and to suit audience and purpose; using relevant geographical terminology, and digital technologies as appropriate
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ACHGS070 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
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 (3) | ACHGK063 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum