Elaboration ACHGK037
classifying resources into renewable, non-renewable and continuous resources, and investigating examples of each type
Elaboration | ACHGK037 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK037
describing how water is an available resource when it is groundwater, soil moisture (green water), and surface water in dams, rivers and lakes (blue water), and a potential resource when it exists as salt water, ice or water vapour
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK037 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK038
explaining how the movement of water through the environment connects places (for example, the melting of snow in spring feeding rivers and dams downstream)
Elaboration | ACHGK038 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK038
investigating the environmental, economic and social uses of water and the effects of water as it connects people and places (for example, the effects of water diversion in the Snowy Mountains)
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK038 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK038
investigating the importance of environmental flows
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK038 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK039
investigating the main causes of rainfall and applying their knowledge to explain the seasonal rainfall patterns in their own place and in a place with either significantly higher or lower rainfall
Elaboration | ACHGK039 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK039
interpreting the spatial distribution of rainfall in Australia and comparing it with the distribution of that of other continents
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK039 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK039
using the concept of the water balance to compare the effects of rainfall, run-off and evaporation on the availability of water in Australia and other continents
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK039 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK040
investigating the causes of water scarcity (for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic), or the ways water is used)
Elaboration | ACHGK040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK040
discussing the advantages and disadvantages of strategies to overcome water scarcity (for example, recycling (‘grey water’), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water …
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK040
examining why water is a difficult resource to manage and sustain (for example, because of its shared and competing uses and variability of supply over time and space)
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACHGK040
investigating whether the use of water in their place is sustainable
Elaboration (3) | ACHGK040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACHGK040
investigating land use management practices that have adversely affected water supply, such as land clearing and some farming practices
Elaboration (4) | ACHGK040 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK041
examining and comparing places in Australia and countries of the Asia region that have economies and communities based on irrigation (for example, rice production in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in NSW and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam)
Elaboration | ACHGK041 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK041
exploring the multilayered meanings (material, cultural and spiritual wellbeing) associated with rivers, waterways, waterholes, seas, lakes, soaks and springs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK041 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACHGK041
examining bays, rivers, waterfalls or lakes in Australia and in countries of the Asia region that have been listed as either World Heritage sites or national parks for their aesthetic and cultural value
Elaboration (2) | ACHGK041 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACHGK041
investigating the spiritual significance of water in an Asian culture
Elaboration (3) | ACHGK041 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK042
explaining the physical causes and the temporal and spatial patterns of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard through a study of either droughts, storms, tropical cyclones or floods
Elaboration | ACHGK042 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACHGK042
explaining the economic, environmental and social impacts of a selected atmospheric or hydrological hazard on people and places, and describing community responses to the hazard
Elaboration (1) | ACHGK042 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACHGK043
investigating their and others’ interpretations of the concept of liveability and choices about where to live (for example, connections to cultural groups, adolescent ‘bright lights’ attraction, retiree tree change and families with children locating …
Elaboration | ACHGK043 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum