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Germany invades Poland |
September 1, 1939 |
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NAZI - Soviet pact |
August 23, 1939 |
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The Great Depression |
1928 - 1930's some say even through early 1040's |
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Treaty of Versailles |
1919 |
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NAZI party rise to power |
1933 |
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WW2 began |
September 3, 1939 |
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D-Day landings |
June 6, 1944 |
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Fall of Singapore |
February 15, 1942 |
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Road to end of war in Japan |
August 6&9 - bombings August 15 - Japan Surrenders September 2 - Japanese signs |
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Attack on Pearl Harbour |
December 7, 1941 |
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UN Declaration of human rights |
1948 |
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Nuremberg Trails |
1945-6 |
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Brown v. Board of Education |
1954 - abolished segregation of schools |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott |
1955-56 |
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Little Rock Nine |
1957 |
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Greensboro Sit-ins |
1960 |
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March on Washington |
1963 - "I Have a Dream" |
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Civil Rights Act of America |
1964 |
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Voting Rights Act of America |
1965 |
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Assination of Martin Luther King |
1968 |
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Day of Mourning |
January 26, 1938 |
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Wave Hill Walkoff |
1966 |
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Referendum for Federal Government to monitor State laws. |
1967 |
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Tent Embassy |
1972 |
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Mabo |
1992 |
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Wik |
1996 |
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Goodes incident |
2013 |
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What is the source function? |
How the environment provides us with resources we can use to live and thrive off. |
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What is the sink function? |
The safe absorption of the wastes and pollution produced by human activities and life is refer to as Earth's sink function. |
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What is the service function? |
Service refers to the provision of environment or ecosystem services that support life without requiring human action. |
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What is the spiritual function? |
Earth's intrinsic recreational, psychological, aesthetic and spiritual value of environments is reefed to as its spiritual function. |
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What is ecocentrism? |
Ecocentrism places a focus on nature rather than humans. Ecocentrism proposes that we should consider humans as part of the biotic community and that we should modify our behaviour to protect the ecosystems to which we also belong. |
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What is anthropocentrism? |
Anthropocentrism places a focus on meeting human needs and recognises humans as the dominant species on Earth. |
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What is technocentrism? |
Technocentrism proposes that environmental problems can be solved using science and technology. |
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What is biocentrism? |
Biocentrism endorses ethical treatment of all living things. It differs from ecocentrism because it focuses on living organisms rather than the physical environment. |
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What's a tributary? |
A stream or river that flows into a bigger river or lake. Does not flow into sea |
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What's a confluence? |
Where two or more rivers meet. |
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Whats a water shed? |
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing in two different rivers. |
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What is infiltration? |
Water that was been absorbed by the soil. It Either percolates down to the aquifer or becomes surface runoff. |
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How does depth of topsoil effect rate of infiltration? |
The deeper the top soil, the more room there is to absorb water. Therefore with deep topsoils, more infiltration. |
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How does the type of soil effect rate of infiltration? |
The more sandy the soil, the more water it can absorb. Sandier soils = more infiltration |
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How does vegetation effect rate of infiltration? |
More vegetation makes it harder for water to run off and so there will be more infiltration. A river has no trees so it has higher run off. |
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What is environmental flow and what are its advantages and disadvantages? |
Planned and intentional release of water from dams to aid ecosystems downstream. + = Aid ecosystems down stream - = The lack of water downstream can kill off other ecosystems |
Planned and intentional release of water from dams to aid ecosystems downstream. |
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What is wetland management and what are its advantages and disadvantages? |
Connecting steams and reducing rubbish to minimise the harmful impacts humans have on the environment. + = Maintaing the integrity of wetlands |
Connecting steams and reducing rubbish to minimise the harmful impacts humans have on the environment. |
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What are buffer zones and what are that advantages and disadvantages of use it? |
Creating channels or planting vegetation along shoreline of natural channels, lakes and wetlands. + = Reduces sedimentation by trapping sediments in the terrestrial environment. - = Excludes humans in area |
Creating channels or planting vegetation along shoreline of natural channels, lakes and wetlands. |
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What is land management and what are its advantages and disadvantages? |
Replanting forests and changing farming practices. + = Protect valuable topsoil |
Replanting forests and changing farming practices. |
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Australia aims for an annual increase in GDP of ... |
3-4% |
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What is participation rate |
Labour force / potential labour force |
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What is the potential labour force |
People aged 16 - 65 who are not full time students |
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Australia aims for an inflation rate of... |
2-3% |
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Australia aims for an unemployment rate of ... What is this rate called? |
~4.5% Full employment |
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The circular flow model categories |
Banks, forgien trade and government |
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Germans surrender |
May 7, 1945 |
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What does lebensraum mean? |
Living space |
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What does NAACP stand for |
National Assosiation for the advancement of coloured people |
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