Course topics.

Try this with Geography

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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