Exam GEOGRAPHY Unit 1 & 2 Nature of the Study The study of Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of places that make up our world. Geographers are interested in key questions concerning places and geographic phenomena. Students explore key questions through fieldwork and investigation of a wide range of secondary sources. These methods underpin the development of a unique framework for understanding the world, enabling students to appreciate its complexity, the diversity and interactions of its environments, economies and cultures, and the processes that helped form and transform them. Is this for you? Are you interested in the environment? Do you want to know more Australia and the world? Are you interested in global issues? Are you good at analysing and interpreting data? Do you enjoy participating in field trips? Unit 1: Hazards and Disasters Unit 2: Tourism This unit examines hazards and hazard In this unit students investigate the events, looking at two different types of characteristics of tourism, with particular hazards; bush fires and floods at a range of emphasis on it has developed its various scales. Students learn to analyse, describe forms, how it has changed and continues to and explain the nature and impacts of hazard change and its impacts on people, places and events using visual representations and environments. topographical maps at various scales. A compulsory field trip is undertaken for this Students select contrasting examples of unit. tourism from within Australia and elsewhere in the world to support their investigations. A Areas of Study compulsory field trip is undertaken for this Characteristics of hazards unit. Response to hazards and disasters Areas of Study Outcomes Characteristics of tourism On completion of this unit students should be Impact of tourism able to: Analyse, describe and explain the nature Outcomes and impacts of hazards events at a range On completion of this unit students should be of scales. able to: Analyse and explain the nature, purpose Analyse, describe and explain the nature and effectiveness of a range of responses of tourism at a range of scales to selected hazards and disasters. Analyse and explain the impacts of tourism on people, places and Assessment environments and evaluate the
Exam GEOGRAPHY Unit 1 & 2 Nature of the Study The study of Geography is a structured way of exploring, analysing and understanding the characteristics of places that make up our world. Geographers are interested in key questions concerning places and geographic phenomena. Students explore key questions through fieldwork and investigation of a wide range of secondary sources. These methods underpin the development of a unique framework for understanding the world, enabling students to appreciate its complexity, the diversity and interactions of its environments, economies and cultures, and the processes that helped form and transform them. Is this for you? Are you interested in the environment? Do you want to know more Australia and the world? Are you interested in global issues? Are you good at analysing and interpreting data? Do you enjoy participating in field trips? Unit 1: Hazards and Disasters This unit examines hazards and hazard events, looking at two different types of hazards; bush fires and floods at a range of scales. Students learn to analyse, describe and explain the nature and impacts of hazard events using visual representations and topographical maps at various scales. A compulsory field trip is undertaken for this unit. Areas of Study Characteristics of hazards Response to hazards and disasters Outcomes On completion of this unit students should be able to: Analyse, describe and explain the nature and impacts of hazards events at a range of scales. Analyse and explain the nature, purpose and effectiveness of a range of responses to selected hazards and disasters. Assessment Unit 2: Tourism In this unit students investigate the characteristics of tourism, with particular emphasis on it has developed its various forms, how it has changed and continues to change and its impacts on people, places and environments. Students select contrasting examples of tourism from within Australia and elsewhere in the world to support their investigations. A compulsory field trip is undertaken for this unit. Areas of Study Characteristics of tourism Impact of tourism Outcomes On completion of this unit students should be able to: Analyse, describe and explain the nature of tourism at a range of scales Analyse and explain the impacts of tourism on people, places and environments and evaluate the
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