GEOGRAPHY TRANSITION LECTURE

MORRIS ALLEN

ASSESSMENT COMPONENTS

FIELDWORK 25% INQUIRY 20% FOLIO 4 pieces of work 25% EXAMINATION 30%

FIELDWORK

Let us chat about this

INQUIRY

Let us chat about this

FOLIO examples on My Uni

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REPORT ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT RESPONSE POPULATION PYRAMID EXERCISE BIOMES ANALYSIS..

Some Touchstone Terms

BiodiversitySustainability

Ecological Footprint

Sustainability in action

The phrase "ecological footprint" is a metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population would hypothetically need to provide the resources required to support itself and to absorb its wastes, given prevailing technology. The term was first coined in 1992 by Canadian ecologist and professor at the University of British Columbia, William Rees.

A url to check in the holidays

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/

Or at least the google entry ‘worldmapper’..

Land Area

What does this show?

Total Population

Total Population

OK What does this show?

Carbon Emissions 2012

A url to check in the holidays No……just put ‘population

pyramids’ into a search engine

A url to check in the holidays

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/

IPCC

http://www.ipcc.ch/

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