This document outlines the key concepts required to demonstrate geographic understanding of a large natural environment. It discusses the natural characteristics and processes that shape environments, including landforms, climate, soils, vegetation, climatic processes, tectonic processes, erosion and more. It also addresses how humans interact with and perceive natural environments, through cultural, economic, political and other interactions, and how these perceptions can change over time. The document provides guidance on explaining the characteristics, elements, processes, formation, changes, and human interactions of a large natural environment with specific examples and details.

1. Geography 2.1

2.  This achievement standard involves demonstrating
geographic understanding of a large natural
environment.
 Demonstrate comprehensive geographic understanding
of a large natural environment involves:
 fully explaining aspects of the large natural environment
including the use of geographic terminology and
concepts, showing insight.
 integrating comprehensive supporting case study
evidence

3.  Natural characteristics (elements) of an environment
include landforms (relief), climate, soils, and
vegetation.
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 Processes include climatic processes; tectonic and
other internal processes; erosion, transportation,
deposition, and other surface processes.
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 Interaction of people with the natural environment may
include cultural, economic, or political interaction.

4.  the characteristics of a large natural environment
 how the elements and processes of the large natural
environment interact
 how a large natural environment is formed and changes
over time
 how people interact with a large natural environment
 how people's perceptions of a large natural environment
change over time.

5. the characteristics of a large natural environment
 What are the characteristics ?
 Soils? Types and Pattern
 Landforms ? Types and Pattern
 Vegetation ? Type and Pattern
 Can you locate the different ones on a map ?

11. how the elements and processes of the large
natural environment interact
 What are the elements of the environment ?
 Soils, climate, landforms, vegetation
 Names ?
 How do these elements interact ?
 What are our processes we talk about ?
 Vegetation processes, fluvial processes, climate
processes
 How/Where do these interact ?

13. how a large natural environment is formed and
changes over time
 Evolution and change
 Landscape evolves by
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tectonic processes
and changes by
Fluvial Processes
Pangea splits
Sth America splits
from Africa
Nazca subducts
under sth American
Fluvial Processes

14. how people interact with a large natural
environment
 How have people used the landscape ?
 Trans Amazonian Highway - Settlers
 Jari - Forestry
 Carajas - Mining
 Shifting Cultivation - Ranching
 How has the landscape affected the people ?
 Climate affects people
 Soils affect people
 Rivers and floods affect people

15. how people's perceptions of a large natural
environment change over time.
 How did people see the landscape in the past ?
 Use it as much as possible
 How do they see it now ?
 Look after it , use it
 How did certain perspectives change ?
 People saw it as fertile but learned that it was not
 People saw it as a place to be used but now want to
save it.
 Indigenous views have not changed.

18.  Use names and stats wherever you can
 Write specifically
 Use a good intro for each answer
 READ THE QUESTION !

19. Questions ?