9 Geography

Key inquiry questions for Year 9 Geography

• What are the causes and consequences of change in places and environments and how can this change be managed?

• What are the future implications of changes to places and environments?

• Why are interconnections and interdependencies important for the future of places and environments?

Term 1

Biomes, agriculture and food security 

Overview of the natural environment and its role in food and fibre production, including the environmental challenges of expanding food production in the future. 

Topic 1: Biomes - 3 weeks

• Distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity

• Human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres, and the use of systems thinking to analyse the environmental effects of these alterations

• Task 1. Deforestation report

 Topic 2: Agriculture - 3 weeks

• Environmental, economic and technological factors that influence crop yields in Australia and across the world

• Challenges to food production, including land and water degradation, shortage of fresh water, competing land uses, and climate change, for Australia and other areas of the world

• Agriculture alternatives

• Task 2. Farm proposal

Topic 3: Food (in)security - 2 weeks

• Can global ecosystems sustainably feed the projected future global population

Term 2

Geographies of interconnections

Investigating how people, through their choices and actions, are connected to places throughout the world in a wide variety of ways, and how these connections help to shape and change human and natural environments.

Topic 4: Globalisation - 2 weeks

• Interconnections between people and places through the production and consumption of goods and services.

• globalisation of transport and ICT and the resulting increase in communication and available goods and services.

• The effects of the production and consumption of goods on places and environments.

Tourism 5 - 3 weeks

• Identifying and managing the effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on the places they visit.

• The ways that places and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales 

• Task 3. Music Festival Report

The Humanities Expo - 2 weeks