AC9HG8K01 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

geomorphological processes that produce different landscapes and significant landforms

Elaborations

• 1 explaining the diversity of landscapes, such as wetlands, grasslands, forests, and cold and hot deserts, and landforms at the national scale; for example, mountains – Himalayan Mountains, Nepal; grasslands – the Steppe, central Asia; forests – Daintree, Australia; hot deserts – Gobi, China
• 2 explaining how tectonics, volcanism, folding, faulting, chemical weathering and physical weathering such as erosion, transportation and deposition shape places; for example, folding – MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia; faulting – Great Sumatran Fault (Semangko Fault), Indonesia; volcanism – Krakatoa, Indonesia
• 3 explaining the effects of rock type on a selected landform at the local scale; such as Fraser Island, Queensland or Twelve Apostles, Victoria; for example, sedimentary – igneous and metamorphic; chemical weathering – oxidation and solution; physical weathering – exfoliation and frost wedging
• 4 explaining the effects of erosion, transportation and deposition of water and wind on a selected landform at the local scale; for example, Fraser Island, Queensland, formed by wind, waves and ocean currents; the Twelve Apostles, Victoria, formed by erosion, tides and ocean currents

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