AC9HG8K07
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG8K07 | Year 8 Geography: Changing nations
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor 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
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Changing nations
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 location of urban settlements in Australia and the United States of America, identifying similarities and differences in the distribution
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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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