Geography Sac 1B

Front 1

Know mapping geographic convention. That is BOLTSS

Back 1

Border, orientation, legend, title, scale, source

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Social Factors:

Back 2

Are features and values of a particular society.

Front 3

Historical Factors:

Back 3

Are evident when past actions or thinking may have influenced the present characteristics of a natural or human environment.

Front 4

Environmental/physical Factors:

Back 4

Are the characteristics of a natural or human environment. The natural factors are often referred to as physical factors, and include the shape of the land, drainage, soils, vegetation and climate.

Front 5

Economic Factors:

Back 5

Are the activities linked to the creation and spending of money

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Political Factors:

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Are the work of individuals, government agencies and non-government organizations, which shape natural and human environments.

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Technological Factors:

Back 7

Show the influence of developments in engineering and communications in our globalised world.

Front 8

Understand the difference between policies and strategies:

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Policy is like a rule in a sense, and strategies is the way in which the policy will be achieved.

Front 9

Describe factors of Macquarie Marshes and the troubles with water and affects of this:

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Has Ramsar protection. Has more bird species than Kakadu National Park. Because of more irrigation farming and the construction of dams less water is reaching the Macquarie Marshes. As well as an increase in the number of water liscences has put the Macquarie Marshes in a long term drought. Trees and marsh vegetation have died off, bird species are declining. The value of grazing property has dropped while the value of irrigation farms has increased.

Front 10

Conflicts over water use:

Back 10

Social education: interests exposure to the discussion. Demographic: increasing and more affluent populations require more goods and services. The changing age of Australia’s population is significant when managing the future of Australia’s resources.

Historical: past connection to the location site or resource.

Economic: will we/I benefit in financial terms.

Environmental/physical: is this the matter of an individual’s knowledge, visual appreciation or past experience. Who has the role of representative in a debate. Physical: the importance of processes such as evaporation, precipitation, global warming and erosion vary in each debate.

Political: past and present government policies and actions. This applies to all levels of government.

Technological: new methods, treatments and discoveries can influence current/future practise.