Geography

2. The individual surface features of the Earth identified by their shape, for example, dunes, plateaus, canyons, beaches, plains, hills, rivers and valleys.
4. Information that is directly recorded; it can be quantitative or qualitative.
5. When the forces of nature combine to become destructive and have potential to damage the environment and endanger communities.
9. The capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future.
11. The average types of weather, including seasonal variations, experienced by a place over a long period of time.
12. The concept that all people have the right to fair treatment and equal access to the benefits of society.

1. Places distant from major population and economic centres.
2. Health of land resources through human actions in ways that threaten their ability to maintain their environmental functions
3. Sources that are unprocessed, original materials collected by the student, for example, field notes from observations, measurements taken from experiments, or responses received from a survey or questionnaire.
6. Defined as the area around a home or school that can be explored in a few hours.
7. The quality of life of a population.
8. Any activity involving the observation and recording of information outside the classroom. It could be within the school grounds, around neighbouring areas, or in more distant locations.
10. Cne of the many worldviews that informs ways of achieving sustainability. When applied to the environment, it is an ethical position that supports the careful management of environmental resources for the benefit of present and future generations.