A workshop/revision session for the Geography 2.1 standard at Takapuna Grammar School

1. Geography 2.1

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.
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 Processes include climatic processes; tectonic and
other internal processes; erosion, transportation,
deposition, and other surface processes.
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 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 ?

11. 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 ?

13. how a large natural environment is formed and
changes over time
 Evolution and change
 Landscape evolves by
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tectonic processes
and changes by
Fluvial Processes
Pangea splits
Sth America splits
from Africa
Nazca subducts
under sth American
Fluvial Processes

14. 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

15. 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.

18.  Use names and stats wherever you can
 Write specifically
 Use a good intro for each answer
 READ THE QUESTION !

19. Questions ?