AC9HG8K02
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG8K02 | Year 8 Geography: Landscapes and landforms
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the location and distribution of Australia’s distinctive landscapes and significant landforms
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Landscapes and landforms
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Geography. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration representing the distribution of Australian distinctive landscapes, such as the deserts in Central Australia, and significant landforms, such as Uluru in Central Australia
- • Elaboration locating iconic landscapes and landforms in Australia on a map and describing what makes them iconic
- • Elaboration comparing the distribution of Australia’s distinctive landscapes with distinctive landscapes in another country; for example, grasslands in Arnhem Land in northern Australia compared to grasslands in Mongolia; tropical rainforests in northern Australia compared to forests in Laos and Cambodia
- • Elaboration explaining the significance of a landform important to First Nations Australians; for example, the names, meanings and significance of the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales; Budj Bim cultural landscape within Gunditjmara Country; Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Northern Territory
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