9 Table of contents Part 1 Geography
1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7
Geographical concepts Geographical skills
2C What factors influence the production of our
2.11
2.12
Asking questions
Collecting information Representing data
2.13 2.14 2.15
driest inhabited continent
Identifying patterns and relationships
1.8
Concluding and decision-making
1.9
Communicating and reflecting
BIOMES AND FOOD SECURITY
D
Review Activity: Biomes
3. Food security 3A What is food security?
3.1
3.2 3.3
2A What are biomes? 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6
The world’s biomes Forest biomes The grasslands biome The desert biome Australia’s biomes Climate and biome productivity
2A Skills in context: Rainforests and sugar cane 2B What does it take to produce our food? 2.7 2.8
Environmental factors Human factors Overcoming problems High-tech farming
2C Skills in context: Growing rice on the world’s
Analysing maps
2. Biomes
food? Factors that influence food production
R AF
1.3
The impacts of food production The impact of palm oil plantations in Indonesia
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1. The geography toolkit 1.2
2.10
2B Skills in context: Climate change and food
SKILLS
1.1
2.9
Food security Levels of food security in different places Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and food security 3A Skills in context: Underweight children 3B What are the main challenges to food security?
3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9
Challenges to food security The challenge of population growth The challenge of land degradation The challenge of water scarcity The challenge of climate change The challenge of land competition 3B Skills in context: Poverty and food security
Where food is produced Food production in Australia
3C How can we improve food security? 3.10 3.11
Improving food security Increasing food production in Australia