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Geography (Seven Key Concepts (Sustainability (Actions to improve…

- - - - Places and people can be linked in many different ways that can be categorised as:
        
        human activities, such as the movement of people, the production and trade of goods and the flow of investment and money within and between different countries.
        
        natural processes, such as the water cycle and the food chain
  - - - Local – Recycling of paper by individuals, schools and households reduces the amount of trees that need to be cut down
      - International – Efforts to protect endangered whale species around the world have attracted media attention and focused public opinion on maintaining breeding grounds free of large whaling vessels
      - National – In Australia the government has begun to encourage sustainable use of energy through the establishment of wind farms and hydroelectric power plants and the use of solar panels
  - - - It has three main elements
        
        organisation – how and why things are arranged and managed on the Earth’s surface by people.
        
        spatial distribution – the shapes and patterns in which things are arranged on the Earth’s surface
        
        location – where things are located on the Earth’s surface
- - - - Weather maps show conditions in the atmosphere, such as air pressure, wind speed, temperature and wind direction.
    - - Thematic maps show a particular theme or topic; for example, how many cows and sheep are in Australia.
    - - Topographic maps show the shape of the land by using contour lines. Numbers on some of the contour lines show the height of the land above sea level.
- - - - Pollution
      - Deforestation
      - Desertification