Geography / Year 8 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 1: Landforms and landscapes

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Human causes and effects of landscape degradation (ACHGK051)

Elaborations
  • analysing the effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities, including farming and recreation, on landscape quality
  • examining the effects of mining and quarrying, and urban development, on landscape quality
  • describing the effects of river regulation including dams, locks, channel straightening and drains, on riverine and wetland landscape quality
  • investigating the effects of the built elements of environments (for example, urban development, marinas and sea walls) on coastal landscape quality
  • investigating the ways introduced plants or animals or activities such as mining affect landscape quality and examining the effects on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Human impact,  Sediment transport,  Soil degradation,  Erosion,  Construction

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GeogSpace: year 8 - exemplar

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This is a web page consisting of an overview and four illustrations of practice on the GeogSpace website, a resource for teachers. The illustrations relate to the Geographical Knowledge and Understanding, and the Geographical Inquiry and Skills strands of the Australian Curriculum: Geography. The four illustrations investigate ...

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The effects of climate change on coral bleaching

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This website is designed to support science and geography inquiry investigations about how coral ecosystems are being impacted by climate change. It contains information and images about the biology of corals and their vulnerability to changes in temperature and pH levels.

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Global assessment of ecosystems

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Marine stormwater pollution

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This website is designed to support science and geography inquiry activities on protecting the marine environment from stormwater pollution. It contains information and images about all aspects of land based stormwater pollution, its impact on marine environments and ways individuals can solve these issues.The information ...

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Locks, Weirs and Dams

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This lesson sequence examines structures that are used by water resource managers in the Murray-Darling Basin including dams, locks, weirs, barrages, fishways, channels and levee banks and explores the positive and negative effects of river regulation. It includes a teacher PowerPoint presentation, separate teacher notes ...

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Threats to coral reefs: what are they?

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Salinity and the Murray-Darling Basin

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Running the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin

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Fixing a scarred landscape

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Make no bones about ocean acidification

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Three Gorges Dam: hydro-electricity as a choice

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Severe erosion in the Upper Murray River

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