AC9HG8K05 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 causes and impacts of a geomorphological hazard on people, places and environments, and the effects of responses

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the causes of a geomorphological hazard such as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, tsunami, landslide or avalanche
• 2 examining the environmental, economic or social impacts of a hazard at the local scale; for example, where people choose to live; the negative consequences for human wellbeing including loss of industry and unemployment; and lack of infrastructure and resources to prepare and respond to hazards
• 3 reflecting on observations of a location where the environment has been altered by human activities to explain how the change has heightened the impact of a hazard
• 4 reflecting on the principles of prevention, mitigation and preparedness to explain how the harmful effects of a hazard can be reduced by the implementation of a management strategy

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