WACE Geography Year 12 Notes

These are the 20 revision notes inside the WACE Geography Mastery Pack. Open any note to see what it covers before you buy.

1. Map scale: converting formats and calculating distance, area and travel timeSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Mapping skills

2. Position and direction: area and grid references, latitude/longitude in degrees and minutes, bearingsSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Mapping skills

3. Relief: contours, landforms, slope shape, average gradient and cross-sectionsSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Mapping skills

4. Annotated sketch maps, site and situation, and spatial patterns and relationshipsSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Mapping skills

5. Aerial, ground-level and satellite images: direction, scale comparison and change over timeSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Remote sensing skills

6. Reading Broadsheet data: descriptive statistics, boxplots, graphs, statistical maps and correlationSkills · Geographical skills (mapping, remote sensing, data)

   Geographical and statistical data skills

7. Core concepts: environment, natural and anthropogenic biomes, land cover change and sustainabilityUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

   Overview

8. Processes of land cover change and measuring them with remote sensingUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

   Overview

9. Drivers of land cover change: population, affluence, technology and differences between two countriesUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

   Overview

10. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land management and the impacts of land cover changeUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Overview

11. Climate option: global rainfall and temperature patterns and the natural climate systemsUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Depth study one

12. Climate option: causes, rate, evidence, albedo, carbon sequestration and impacts in two environmentsUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Depth study one

13. Biodiversity option: biomes, ecosystem structure and dynamics, causes, evidence, interrelationships and impactsUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Depth study one

14. Adaptation and mitigation: three adaptations and two mitigation strategiesUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Depth study two

15. Two strategies addressing land cover change impacts, evaluated with the concept of sustainabilityUnit 3 · Unit 3 – Global environmental change

    Depth study two

16. Urbanisation, liveability, population growth and urban-rural interdependenceUnit 4 · Unit 4 – Planning sustainable places

    Overview

17. Australian settlement: distribution factors, changing demographics and urban process definitionsUnit 4 · Unit 4 – Planning sustainable places

    Overview

18. Challenges facing places outside major cities in AustraliaUnit 4 · Unit 4 – Planning sustainable places

    Overview

19. Metropolitan Perth or a regional WA urban centre: morphology, demographics, challenges, stakeholders and strategiesUnit 4 · Unit 4 – Planning sustainable places

    Depth study one

20. A megacity: morphology, demographics, challenges and evaluating planning strategies for sustainability and liveabilityUnit 4 · Unit 4 – Planning sustainable places

    Depth study two