Geography syllabus, dot point by dot point
Every dot point in the WA Geography syllabus, in syllabus order, with a focused answer for each. Open any dot point for the answer, exam-style questions and links to related points.
Unit 3: Global Networks and Interconnections
Unit overview →How do transnational corporations organise global networks, and what is their geographical influence?
How do global flows of people, capital, goods, information and ideas create interdependence between places?
How are global production and consumption organised through commodity and value chains?
How can the degree of globalisation and connectivity of a place be measured and mapped?
How do flows of information, communication and ideas interconnect places in a digital world?
How does globalisation distribute benefits and costs unevenly between and within places?
How do flows of capital and foreign investment interconnect places, and what are their consequences?
How does international aid interconnect places, and how effective is it at reducing global inequality?
What causes international migration and how does it affect source and destination places?
How does international trade interconnect places, and who gains and loses from the patterns of global trade?
How does international tourism interconnect places, and what are its economic, social and environmental consequences?
How do global flows reshape culture, and do they homogenise or diversify places?
What are the environmental consequences of global networks and flows, and how can they be managed?
Unit 4: Planning and Sustainable Futures
Unit overview →What do sustainability and liveability mean, and how are they measured?
Why do some countries concentrate population in one dominant city, and what are the consequences?
What causes urbanisation, and why does it occur at different rates in developed and developing countries?
How are urban and regional places planned and governed, and by whom?
What are the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability, and how do they interact in planning?
How are spatial technologies used to investigate, plan and manage sustainable places?
Why do many rural and regional places decline, and how can their futures be made more sustainable?
Why do cities sprawl outward, and what are the consequences of low-density suburban growth?
Why are megacities concentrated in the developing world, and what challenges do they face?
What strategies create more sustainable and liveable places, and how is fieldwork used to investigate them?
How is fieldwork planned and conducted, and how is primary data processed and evaluated?
How can cities manage the challenges of growth to become more sustainable and liveable?