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UNIT 1:
UNIT 1:
Hazards and Disasters
This unit investigates how people have responded to specific types of hazards and disasters. Students will examine their causes, impacts, human responses, and connections to natural phenomena, including climate change.In this unit, students will investigate two contrasting types of hazards and the responses to them. Additionally, students will undertake fieldwork and produce a fieldwork report.
UNIT 2:
UNIT 2:
Tourism: Issues and challenges
In this unit students will investigate the characteristics of tourism: where it has developed, its various forms, how it has changed and continues to change and its impact on people, places and environments, issues and challenges of ethical tourism. Students will study tourism at local, regional and global scales with an emphasis on the interconnection within and between places as well as the impacts, issues and challenges that arise from various forms of tourism. Students will study contrasting examples of tourism from within Australia and elsewhere in the world.
UNIT 3:
UNIT 3:
Changing the Land
This unit focuses on two investigations of geographical change: change to land cover and change to land use. Land cover includes biomes such as forest, grassland, tundra, bare lands and wetlands, as well as land covered by ice and water. Land cover is the natural state of the biophysical environment developed over time as a result of the interconnection between climate, soils, landforms and flora and fauna and, increasingly, interconnections with human activity. Natural land cover is altered by many processes such as geomorphological events, plant succession and climate change.
Students investigate two major processes that are changing land cover in many regions of the world: melting glaciers and ice sheets, and deforestation.
They investigate the distribution and causes of the two processes. They select one location for each of the processes to develop a greater understanding of the changes to land cover produced by these processes, the impacts of these changes and responses to these changes at different scales.
People have modified land cover to produce a range of land uses to satisfy needs such as housing, resource provision, communication and recreation. Land use change is a characteristic of both urban and rural environments and occurs at both spatial and temporal scales.
At a local scale students investigate land use change using appropriate fieldwork techniques and secondary sources. They investigate the processes of change, the reasons for change and the impacts of change.
UNIT 4:
UNIT 4:
Human Populations: Trends and Issues
Students investigate the geography of human populations. They explore the patterns of population change, movement and distribution, and how governments, organisations and individuals have responded to those changes in different parts of the world.
Students study population dynamics before undertaking an investigation into two significant population trends arising in different parts of the world. They examine the dynamics of populations and their environmental, economic, social, and cultural impacts on people and places.
Students investigate the interconnections between the reasons for population change. They evaluate strategies developed in response to population issues and challenges, in both a growing population trend of one country and an ageing population trend of another country, in different parts of the world.
Unit 3 and 4 Assessment breakdown
Unit 3 Coursework 25%
Unit 4 Coursework 25%
End of Year Exam 50%
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