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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Environment: source, sink, service, spiritual

29 Friday Jul 2016

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Our environment

List as many words as you can think of to describe ‘environment’ or its components. [2 min]

How do humans use ‘the environment’ – ie the resources of the earth? Classify these resources as Renewable, Somewhat Renewable or Not Renewable.

Refer to this document. Outline how the earth functions as source, sink, service and spiritual.
What are some examples of these not listed in the document?

Homework

1. Finish the above.

2. Some ecosystem services are below. Give an example for each, and classify as source, sink, service or spirituality:

  • Dispersing seeds
  • Places for recreation and reflection
  • Purifying the air, providing oxygen
  • Moderating weather extremes
  • Building and maintaining soil fertility
  • Decomposing and dispersing waste
  • Providing food and fibre
  • Protection from river and coastal erosion
  • Filtering water
  • Plant pollination
  • Providing shade
  • Protection from UV rays
  • Controlling farming pests

[If time … could you draw this? Feel free to do this if you wish, but no compulsion!]

10GEO Semester 2 2016

26 Tuesday Jul 2016

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In Geography this Semester we will look at:

Environmental Management and Change

Key Focus 1 – The human-induced environmental changes that challenge sustainability
Key Focus 2 – Urban environments: A comparative study of Australian and international eg’s

Geographies of Human Wellbeing

Key Focus 1 – Human Wellbeing
Key Focus 2 – Inequalities in Human Wellbeing
Key Focus 3 – Improving Human Wellbeing

Week 1

8 groups of 3 to read from photocopy (Oxford Big Ideas – Geo 10, pp 6-12)

1 Place Space

2 Environment Interconnection

3 Scale Change

4 Place Environment

5 Space Scale

6 Interconnection Change

7 Sustainability Environment

8 Interconnection Sustainability

Geographical Concepts – table

 Answer these questions for your two conceptsin the table above:

  • What is it?
  • Does this concept have different categories?
  • What do geographers study in relation to this concept?
  • Why is this concept important?

Then, find someone who has a concept you need, and you have a concept they need. Share your answers. Discuss and clarify (go back to the handout if necessary)

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