AC9HG8K05
Official content description
the causes and impacts of a geomorphological hazard on people, places and environments, and the effects of responses
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What Year 8 HASS students should achieve
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- Students identify ways in which Australians express different aspects of their identity and explain perspectives on Australia’s national identity.
- They describe the roles of political parties and elected representatives in Australian government.
- They sequence events and developments to explain causes and effects, and patterns of continuity and change across societies and time periods.
- They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships.
- They describe the effects of human activity or hazards on environments.
- They explain how these interconnections change places or environments.
The Knowledge and understanding progression either side of AC9HG8K05
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Taught before · Year 7
- AC9HG7K01classification of environmental resources and the way that water connects and changes places as it moves through environments
- AC9HG7K02the location and distribution of water resources in Australia, their implications, and strategies to manage the sustainability of water
- AC9HG7K03the economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including First Nations Australians
Builds towards · Year 9
- AC9HG9K01the distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity
- AC9HG9K02the effects on environments of human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres
- AC9HG9K03the environmental, economic and technological factors that impact agricultural productivity, in Australia and a country in Asia
Other Year 8 Knowledge and understanding codes
- AC9HG8K01geomorphological processes that produce different landscapes and significant landforms
- AC9HG8K02the location and distribution of Australia’s distinctive landscapes and significant landforms
- AC9HG8K03the spiritual, aesthetic and cultural value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Country/Place of First Nations Australians
- AC9HG8K04the interconnections between human activity and geomorphological processes, and ways of managing distinctive landscapes
- AC9HG8K06causes of urbanisation and its impacts on places and environments, drawing on a study from a country such as the United States of America, and its implications
- AC9HG8K07differences 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
- AC9HG8K08reasons for, and effects of, internal migration and international migration in Australia, China or other countries
- AC9HG8K09strategies to manage the sustainability of Australia’s changing urban places
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