2. This achievement standard involves demonstrating
geographic understanding of a large natural
environment.
Demonstrate comprehensive geographic understanding
of a large natural environment involves:
fully explaining aspects of the large natural environment
including the use of geographic terminology and
concepts, showing insight.
integrating comprehensive supporting case study
evidence
3. Natural characteristics (elements) of an environment
include landforms (relief), climate, soils, and
vegetation.
Processes include climatic processes; tectonic and
other internal processes; erosion, transportation,
deposition, and other surface processes.
Interaction of people with the natural environment may
include cultural, economic, or political interaction.
4. the characteristics of a large natural environment
how the elements and processes of the large natural
environment interact
how a large natural environment is formed and changes
over time
how people interact with a large natural environment
how people's perceptions of a large natural environment
change over time.
5. the characteristics of a large natural environment
What are the characteristics ?
Soils? Types and Pattern
Landforms ? Types and Pattern
Vegetation ? Type and Pattern
Can you locate the different ones on a map ?
6. how the elements and processes of the large
natural environment interact
What are the elements of the environment ?
Soils, climate, landforms, vegetation
Names ?
How do these elements interact ?
What are our processes we talk about ?
Vegetation processes, fluvial processes, climate
processes
How/Where do these interact ?
7. how a large natural environment is formed and
changes over time
Evolution and change
Landscape evolves by
tectonic processes
and changes by
Fluvial Processes
Pangea splits
Sth America splits
from Africa
Nazca subducts
under sth American
Fluvial Processes
8. how people interact with a large natural
environment
How have people used the landscape ?
Trans Amazonian Highway - Settlers
Jari - Forestry
Carajas - Mining
Shifting Cultivation - Ranching
How has the landscape affected the people ?
Climate affects people
Soils affect people
Rivers and floods affect people
9. how people's perceptions of a large natural
environment change over time.
How did people see the landscape in the past ?
Use it as much as possible
How do they see it now ?
Look after it , use it
How did certain perspectives change ?
People saw it as fertile but learned that it was not
People saw it as a place to be used but now want to
save it.
Indigenous views have not changed.
10. Use names and stats wherever you can
Write specifically
Use a good intro for each answer
READ THE QUESTION !