AC9HG8K07 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.

differences in the distribution of urban settlements and urban concentration in Australia compared with another country such as the United States of America, and their implications

Elaborations

• 1 representing the location of urban settlements in Australia and the United States of America, identifying similarities and differences in the distribution
• 2 examining the causes of urban concentration in Australia; for example, the history of European settlement, migration, the export orientation of the economy, the centralisation of state governments, environmental constraints and the shape of transportation networks
• 3 examining the effects of urban concentration in a country other than Australia; for example, the decline in biodiversity and increase in waste, the increase in carbon emissions leading to a large carbon footprint, or the decline in access to adequate clean water and the development of slums
• 4 interpreting and explaining the relationship between population density and proximity to urban centres at the national scale; for example, higher population density towards the urban central business district (CBD) as a centre of employment, education, culture and government, such as in Brisbane, and declining towards the rural-urban fringe (core and periphery)

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