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ACHGE071

The relationship between land cover change and climate change and the long-term impact of climate change on land cover.

ACHGE075

The causes, rate and projected impacts of global climate change.

ACHGE078

A local initiative designed to address the effects of global climate change on land cover.

Unit 3: Land cover transformations Geography

This unit focuses on the changing biophysical cover of the earth’s surface, its impact on global climate and biodiversity, and the creation of anthropogenic biomes. In doing so, it examines the processes causing change in the earth’s land cover. These …

Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum

ACHGE077

The effects of climate change on land cover, for example, vegetation, ice sheets, glaciers and coral reefs.

ACHGE076

The interrelationships between land cover change and climate change, for example, the impacts of land cover loss on surface reflectivity (albedo) and the process of natural carbon sequestration.

ACHGE072

The impacts of land cover change on local and regional environments.

ACHGE082

A local initiative designed to address the effects of biodiversity loss or change.

ACHGE065

The identification and classification of land cover change using remotely sensed images and aerial photographs.

ACHGE066

The interpretation of data sourced from spatial technologies and fieldwork to explain the nature, rate, extent and consequences of land cover change.

ACHGE067

World population growth, growing affluence, advances in technology and their impact on the rate and extent of land cover change and biodiversity.

ACHGE080

The interrelationships between land cover change and biodiversity loss, for example, the processes of evolutionary diversification and species extinction and their implications for land cover in the future.

ACHGE084

a program designed to address the issue of land cover change and its consequences at a local scale (for example, coast dune rehabilitation, urban zoning regulations)

ACHGE068

The differences in the process of land cover change between countries due to factors such as government policy, institutional arrangements, land ownership, type of economy, ideology and culture, in addition to the range of physical factors.

ACHGE073

Human-generated land cover change and its consequences including: the competitive advantages of indigenous and introduced species; the balance within each of these groups; and the effects such changes might have on land cover changes and biodiversity …

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