Year 9 Geography Biomes and Food Security

Topic outline

• General
  
  

  General

  • News forum
  • Powerpoints Database
  • Assessment Task 1 - Plantation Crops UPLOAD Assignment
• 01 What is a Biome?
  
  

  01 What is a Biome?

  • What is a Biome? File
  • What is a Biome? - Activities Assignment
  • Ecosystems and Biomes File
  • 2. Biomes video sheet and map File
  • Why are Biomes Different? File
  • Activities - Why are Biomes Different? Assignment
  • Blue Planet Biomes Webquest URL
• 02 The Impact of Human Activity on Biomes
  
  

  02 The Impact of Human Activity on Biomes

  • What are Australia's Major Biomes? File
  • How is food produced in Australia? File
  • Australia's Biomes Mapping Activity File
  • How is food produced in Australia? Activities. Assignment
• 03 Challenges to Food Production.
  
  

  03 Challenges to Food Production.

  • How Does Farming Affect Biomes? File
  • How do we lose land? File
  • Who is not hungry? File
  • How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? File
  • How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? Retrieval Sheet File
  • What food aid occurs at a global scale File
  • Topic Review Quiz
• 04 Plantation Crops
  
  

  04 Plantation Crops

  • Assessment Task 1 - Impact of Plantation Crops File
  • Assessment Task 1 -Plantation Crops - Marking Key File
  • Guide to citing sources URL
  • Citing Sources (for bibliographies) Quiz
  • Palm Oil
    

  • How It's Made - Palm Oil File

    How It’s Made, 15 August 2016, How It’s Made – Palm Oil, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-GiulGlqg , [Date accessed]

  • Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry File

    TIME, 29 Nov 2016, Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry is Destroying More Than Forests, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDapJEZWQV4, [date accessed]

    
    

  • Malaysian Palm Oil Benefits File

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogv38JM1os
    

  • Sustainable Palm Oil Production File
  • The Problem with Palm Oil File
  • Coffee
    

  • Coffee and Climate File
  • Coffee Production Process File
  • Small Holders File

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvkOwXtDFzs
  • CAT 1 Plantation Crops UPLOAD Assignment
• 05 Interconnectedness
  
  

  05 Interconnectedness

  • How do we see places? File
  • How do we access places? File
  • How do we access places? - Activities Assignment
  • Are we all connected? File
  • Are we all connected? Activities Assignment
  • How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer File
• 06 Trade
  
  

  06 Trade

  • Trading Places File
  • How Does Trade Connect Us? File
  • How does trade connect Australia to the world? File
• 07 Music Festival
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  07 Music Festival

  • Music Festival - Task Sheet File
  • Proposal Workbook File
  • Marking Key File
  • Belmont City Council Application File
  • Music Festival - UPLOAD Assignment
• Topic 8
  
  

  Topic 8