AC9HG7K02 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the location and distribution of water resources in Australia, their implications, and strategies to manage the sustainability of water

Elaborations

• 1 representing the location of Australia’s water resources, such as surface water and groundwater
• 2 describing the distribution of Australia’s water resources, and its implications for people; for example, limited access to water for people in rural and remote places and its implications
• 3 identifying the causes of variability in water resources or water scarcity; for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical cause), inadequate development of water resources (economic cause), or the ways water is used (such as farming, industry, drinking, washing or watering)
• 4 explaining the factors that contribute to variability in water resources or water scarcity; for example, location, climate, topography, seasonality or evaporation
• 5 examining why water is a difficult resource for communities to manage and sustain; for example, because of its shared and competing uses, and variability of supply over time
• 6 examining how a strategy may manage the sustainability of water resources; for example, recycling (“grey water”), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water consumption

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