AS 91427 · 4 credits · External
Cultural geography
Demonstrate understanding of how a cultural process shapes geographic environment(s)
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This standard asks you to pick a cultural process (like tourism, farming, or urban development) and a specific place it affects, then explain how that process actually shapes the environment and people living there. You need to show how the cultural process operates—what makes it work—and trace how that operation directly causes real impacts on people.
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What you actually do
- ·Pick a cultural process with clear, identifiable parts (like tourism with its stages of development, or agriculture with its land-use decisions) and a specific geographic environment you can study in detail
- ·Create a map or diagram that shows where and how the cultural process impacts both the natural and cultural environment
- ·Analyse how the elements of the cultural process actually work together to create those impacts—don't just describe what happened, explain why it happened because of how the process operates
- ·Link the operation of the cultural process directly to impacts on people, using specific case study evidence to show real consequences (social, economic, environmental)
- ·Organise and evaluate multiple impacts by categorising them (e.g. social vs economic, short-term vs long-term, positive vs negative) and show how significant each impact is
AAchieved
You identify a cultural process and location, describe several impacts of that process on people, and give basic reasons why the process caused those impacts using some case study evidence.