AC9HG8K04 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.

the interconnections between human activity and geomorphological processes, and ways of managing distinctive landscapes

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the interconnections and effects of erosion and sedimentation produced by human activities on the quality of the environment; for example, the effects of overuse of tourist tracks in bushland or the effects of land-clearing for the production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia
• 2 explaining the interconnections and effects of mining, quarrying and urban development on the quality of the environment; for example, the interconnections of the quality of the environment and uranium mining in Kakadu, urban development in Singapore or the extension of land area in Tokyo Bay
• 3 explaining the effects of river regulation, including dams, locks, channel straightening and drains, on the quality of riverine and wetland environments; for example, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, or dams and weirs on the Murray–Darling River system
• 4 identifying the contribution of the knowledges of First Nations Australians to the use and management of distinctive landscapes; for example, Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge (IPK) incorporated into modern management of diverse landscapes and landforms such as Kakadu National Park, Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef and the Snowy Mountains

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