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Unit 2: Earth processes – energy transfers and transformations Earth and Environmental Science

Earth system processes require energy. In this unit, students explore how the transfer and transformation of energy from the sun and Earth’s interior enable and control processes within and between the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. …

Unit 2 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum

ACHAH239

family background and status

ACELR007

approaches to characterisation, for example, the inclusion of archetypal figures, authorial intrusion, the dramatisation of a character’s inner life, and the use of interior monologue

ACSES045

Processes within and between Earth systems require energy that originates either from the sun or the interior of Earth

ACSES047

Transfers and transformations of heat and gravitational energy in Earth's interior drives the movement of tectonic plates through processes including mantle convection, plume formation and slab sinking

Rationale/Aims Earth and Environmental Science

Rationale Earth and Environmental Science is a multifaceted field of inquiry that focuses on interactions between the solid Earth, its water, its air and its living organisms, and on dynamic, interdependent relationships that have developed between these …

Rationale/Aims | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum

ACEEA158

drawing on background knowledge or contextual cues to guess the meaning of unknown words

ACHMH120

An overview of Australia in 1918 as background information for more intensive study of the period

ACHMH129

An overview of Germany in 1918 as background for more intensive study of the period

ACHMH135

An overview of Russia in 1917 as background for more intensive study of the period

ACHMH142

An overview of Japan in 1931 as background for more intensive study of the period

ACHMH164

An overview of China in 1937 as background for more intensive study of the period

ACHAH341

Thucydides’ background/exile and how it influenced his writing of The Peloponnesian War, and the influence of the tragic tradition on his writing

ACHMH113

An overview of the United States of America in 1917 as background information for more intensive study of the period

ACHMH149

An overview of India in 1947 as background for more intensive study of the period, including the impact of World War II

ACHMH156

An overview of Indonesia in 1942 as background for more intensive study of the period, including the Indonesian nationalist movement in the 1930s and the idea of Indonesia

ACHMH202

The background to, and the key features of, post-war capitalism and communism as competing economic and social systems in the 1950s

ACHMH215

An overview of the background to the establishment of the British mandate in Palestine and the establishment of the state of Israel, including the immediate consequences for relations between Jews and Arabs

ACHAH074

The background to Cao Cao, including an overview of Later Han dynasty society and the imperial bureaucracy, and the rise of Cao Cao (AD 155-220) as founder of the Wei kingdom

ACHMH158

The background, role and significance of Sukarno’s presidency, with particular reference to ‘Guided democracy’; the reasons for the growth of the Indonesian Communist Party; and the role of the military

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