Revision notes.

Try this with Geography

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Map scale: converting formats and calculating distance, area and travel time
• Position and direction: area and grid references, latitude/longitude in degrees and minutes, bearings
• Relief: contours, landforms, slope shape, average gradient and cross-sections
• Annotated sketch maps, site and situation, and spatial patterns and relationships
• Aerial, ground-level and satellite images: direction, scale comparison and change over time
• Reading Broadsheet data: descriptive statistics, boxplots, graphs, statistical maps and correlation
• Core concepts: environment, natural and anthropogenic biomes, land cover change and sustainability
• Processes of land cover change and measuring them with remote sensing
• Drivers of land cover change: population, affluence, technology and differences between two countries
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land management and the impacts of land cover change
• Climate option: global rainfall and temperature patterns and the natural climate systems
• Climate option: causes, rate, evidence, albedo, carbon sequestration and impacts in two environments
• Biodiversity option: biomes, ecosystem structure and dynamics, causes, evidence, interrelationships and impacts
• Adaptation and mitigation: three adaptations and two mitigation strategies
• Two strategies addressing land cover change impacts, evaluated with the concept of sustainability
• Urbanisation, liveability, population growth and urban-rural interdependence
• Australian settlement: distribution factors, changing demographics and urban process definitions
• Challenges facing places outside major cities in Australia
• Metropolitan Perth or a regional WA urban centre: morphology, demographics, challenges, stakeholders and strategies
• A megacity: morphology, demographics, challenges and evaluating planning strategies for sustainability and liveability