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Curriculum content descriptions

Classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHASSK182)

Elaborations
  • classifying resources into renewable, non-renewable and finite/infinite resources, and investigating examples of each type and how they affect environmental sustainability
  • describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water) and treated or recycled (grey water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice or water vapour
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Energy resources,  Water resources,  Energy use

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