SKILLS BOOKLET

HSIE

Subject: Geography

Year: 10 Task: #1

Due Date: Term 2 Week 1 Mark: /116

Weighting: 15% Assessment Mode: Skills Booklet

Outcomes GE5-7 acquires and processes geographical information by selecting and using appropriate and relevant

geographical tools for inquiry

GE5-8 communicates geographical information to a range of audiences using a variety of strategies

Marking Criteria: Students will be assessed on:

• Geographical skills completion

• Use of paragraphs and media scaffold

• Use of geographical terms.

• Use of complete sentences and topic sentences in scaffold

• Use of sentence punctuation (capitals and full stops).

Submission / Late Policy Students are expected to submit their assessment tasks during the period the class meets on the due date. Students submitting assessment tasks at the staff room should only submit these tasks to their teacher or a nominated representative from the faculty. If the task is collected by anyone else the student MUST ask for a signed submission receipt.

Students who wish to submit their assessment task on the due date but later than the class time MUST negotiate an alternative time with their class teacher. Late penalties will apply after this.

Year 7-10 will lose 10% of the final mark for every consecutive school day that the assessment task remains outstanding. This will occur for 3 consecutive school days. On the 4th day the student will receive zero for the task.

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Task One: Geographical Terminology (25 marks)

To be completed in Google Classroom

Part A – select the correct term to match the provided definition (15 marks)

Part B – select the correct term to match the provided definition (10 marks)

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Task Two: Mapping (20 marks)

Using the website provided, indicate the top birth countries of migrants to Australia in 2018.

https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/latestProducts/3412.0Media%20Release12017-18

Write a suitable title for the map (1 mark)

a. Label the location and colour the top 10 countries migrant arrivals to

Australia were born in 2018 (10 marks)

b. Create a legend for point a above that displays the number of people in each

group. (5 marks)

c. Label the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn and mark these major

lines of latitude with a straight blue line (one mark each) (2 mark)

d. Label the Prime Meridian and International Date Line and mark these major

lines of longitude with appropriate red lines (one mark each) (2 marks)

Title: ………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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Task Three:

Map Reading Part A (10 marks)

Use the map below to answer the questions located on Google Classroom.

Map A

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Map Reading Part B (10 marks)

Use the map below to answer the given questions in Google Classroom.

Map B

https://www.google.com.au/maps

Map Reading Part C (10 marks)

Use the map below to answer the given questions in Google Classroom.

Map C

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Task Four: Geographical Data & Graphs (26 marks)

Population Pyramids (12 marks)

Use the pyramids below to answer the given questions in Google Classroom.

(Clearer images are available on the quiz form)

Population graphs for Western Asia and Western Africa 2019

Estimated population growth Western Asia and Western Africa

Use the information above to answer the questions on Google Classroom. AFTER you

have answered those questions, answer the questions on the next page. (14 marks)

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1. What does this difference suggest?

Western Asia

Western Africa

(2 marks)

2. What is the projected trend in population growth?

Western Asia

Western Africa (2 marks)

3. What will this mean for environmental management in both countries?

Western Asia

(5 marks)

Western Africa

(5 marks)

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Task Five: Media Research (15 marks)

Using the internet, find one media article that shows issues created by urbanisation for people

and/or the environment. Read your article thoroughly and complete the scaffold below.

Article Title: (1 mark) ___________________________________________________________

Author: (1 mark)

Date of Article: (1 mark)

Source of Article: (Website, newspaper, etc) (1 mark)

Summary of Article: (Provide a brief overview of the article) (3 mark)

Connection to Question: (Explain the issue/consequences created by urbanisation for people and/or

the environment. Does the article suggest any solutions?) (5 mark)

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Propose your own solution to the issue: (3mark)