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Stage 4 Focus Areas
The Stage 4 Global Geography section of the Mandatory course comprises four focus areas:
- Investigating the World (10%)
- Global Environments (40%)
- Managing Global Environments (30%)
- Global Citizenship (20%).
4G2 Global Environments
Time allocation - 40% of course time
Principal focus
To understand the geographical processes that form and transform diverse global environments and to identify types of human communities and their interactions within environments.
Stage 4 outcomes
In this focus area a student will work towards the following Stage 4 outcomes:
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4.1
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identifies and gathers geographical information
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4.2
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organises and interprets geographical information
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4.3
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uses a range of written, oral and graphic forms to communicate geographical information
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4.4
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demonstrates a sense of place about environments outside Australia
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4.5
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describes the geographical processes that form and transform environments
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4.6
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identifies and discusses geographical issues from a range of perspectives
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4.7
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describes the interrelationships between people and environments
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4.9
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explains how geographical knowledge, understanding and skills contribute to active and informed citizenship.
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Content
In working towards Stage 4 outcomes, students will learn about:
Geographical processes contributing to diverse global physical environments
geomorphologic processes
- plate tectonics
- weathering and erosion
- topography (altitude, aspect, gradient)
- weather and climate
- seasonal changes in insolation
- continental and maritime influences
- global climate patterns
- global climatic change, including greenhouse gas emissions, ozone depletion and acid rain
biotic processes
ecosystems and food webs
Types of human communities
- shared spaces such as an urban community or neighbourhood, rural town, farming district, outstation, mining centre
- shared social organisations such as ethnic, indigenous language group areas, sporting, religious, occupational
- interactions between human communities and their physical environment
At least TWO studies of the interactions between a physical environment and a related human community outside Australia. One of the studies must include study of an indigenous community. These studies are to be selected from the following.
rainforests, river catchments, deserts, coasts, wetlands, mountains, grasslands, coral reefs, polar lands, tundra.
Each study should focus on:
- the global distribution of the ecosystem
- the nature of the physical environment of the ecosystem
- the effect of the physical environment on the related human community
- relevant contemporary geographical issues
- changing management strategies and peoples’ relationships to the land
- individual and community action, and conflict resolution.
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