AC9HG9K02
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG9K02 | Year 9 Geography: Biomes and food security
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the effects on environments of human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Biomes and food security
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 Geography. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying the biomes in Australia and a country in Asia that produce some of the foods and plant material people consume
- • Elaboration explaining the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems in flows of nutrients and water, and in biodiversity; for example, the tropical rainforest biome in Indonesia produces food such as fruit, grains, nuts, vegetables and spices, and non-food products such as wood, rubber, coffee, chocolate and palm oil
- • Elaboration explaining how human alteration of biomes (for example, drip irrigation, fertilisers, pesticides, genetically modified seeds, agrobiotics, terracing, and controlling erosion and overgrazing) has increased agricultural productivity in Australia and a country in Asia
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