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Geography / Year 10 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Geographies of human wellbeing

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Curriculum content descriptions

Reasons for spatial variations between countries in selected indicators of human wellbeing (ACHGK077)

Elaborations
  • investigating the economic, social, technological, political and or environmental causes of spatial inequality between countries
  • examining differences in indicators by gender across countries and within selected countries
  • investigating the interrelationships between the rate of population growth and human wellbeing in countries
  • examining how access to natural resources (for example, minerals and water) can affect wellbeing and be a source of conflict
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Countries,  Wellbeing,  Social indicators

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