Year 12 Geography
Geography Skills and Tools
Ecosystems at Risk
Study Resources
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Part 3
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• How Abiotic and Biotic Factors Make an Ecosystem
• Biosphere Reserves in a Nutshell
• Why is Biodiversity So Important?
• Living Landscapes - An Australian Ecosystem Series
• ABC on Great Barrier Reef Bleaching
• Wetlands: Keeping Our Planet Alive and Well
• TED: Let The Environment Guide Our Development
• Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Classes of Values​
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• Physical Processes: The 4 Spheres
• What is the Greenhouse Effect?
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• Practical Subsistence Farming
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People and Economic Activity
Urban Places - World Cities
Study Resources
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Part 2
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Video Links
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• Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
• What is an Economic Indicator?
• Diversification of Business Strategies
• Income & Wealth Inequality: Crash Course Economics
• TED: How economic inequality harms society
• Why some countries are poor and others are rich
• TED: Agriculture: Farming for the Whole Planet
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• What is a Multinational Corporation?
• Newly Industrialised Nations
• A Case Study of a Newly Industrialised Country: India
• Africa's Largest Rubber Plantation
• What Are Free trade Agreements?
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Urban Places - Mega-Cities
Video Links
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• TED: How Megacities Are Changing the Map of the World
• TED Playlist: Understanding World Economies
• TED: Praise of Microfinance in Africa
• TED: Rise of the New Global Super-rich
• TED: How can we make crops survive without water
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Urban Places - Urban Dynamics
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• The Pros and Cons of Gentrification
• TED: What we don't understand about gentrification
• Ecological Footprint: Do we fit on our planet?
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