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YEAR 12: OES > Unit 4: Outcome 2 > Flashcards

Unit 4: Outcome 2 Flashcards

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Importance for healthy outdoor environments

Individual

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  • Healthy outdoor environments are important because they allow individuals to participate in pursuits that contribute to their mental health and physical and social wellbeing.
  • Healthy outdoor environments provide individuals with places for recreation and adventure, place for inspiration and places for education
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Individuals
Inspiration and creativity

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  • artists and musicians get inspiration from outdoor environments.
  • personally visiting outdoor environments affect us in some way and helps us recognise the natural beauty.
  • taking photos and posting them on social media indicated that the photo has inspired you
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Individual
Recreation and adventure

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  • Individuals see healthy outdoor environments as a place to participate in challenging activities.
  • These environments also provide opportunities for recreation such as surfing and bushwalking.
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Individual
Education.

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  • People want to learn about the outdoor environments and this is shown through the increase in participation in school subjects such as outdoor ed.
  • national park operators are successfully improving visitor education centres due to public demand.
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments

Society

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  • Having healthy outdoor environments is crucial to maintain human society in the future.
  • The earth relies on outdoor environments for the product of resources.
  • Scientific research, resource and economic value
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Society
Resource

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Provides clean water and provides timber

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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Society
Resource
Provides clean water

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The environments trap and filter water into the river systems

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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Society
Resource
Provides timber

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Timber is an important resource for construction

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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Society
Scientific research

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  • Healthy outdoor environments provide sites for us to monitor the changes in our environments, such as climate changes and effects of logging.
  • may find future medicinal sources that could cure diseases.
  • Greater understanding of natural medicines and new food sources
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Importance for healthy outdoor environments
Society
Economic value

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  • Healthy outdoor environments are essential to the strength of the Australian community.
  • Timber, food, tourism, minerals and electricity are all directly related to the natural environment.
  • These resources create thousands of jobs and generate billions of dollars
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Impact on society and outdoor environments

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Land degradation, climate change, introduced species and urbanisation

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Land degradation

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Social erosion

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Land degradation- soil erosion

Impact on environment

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  • Soil erosion of coastal dunes impacts sand dunes and their vegetation.
  • once the dunes are damaged, sand is blown or washed away.
  • erosion of sand dunes is effecting beach and dune systems and coastal flora.
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Land degradation- soil erosion

Impact on society

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  • soil erosion of coastal dunes is impacting society due to loss of land on coastal water fronts.
  • the land disappears due to erosion which causes the land values to decrease, and have financial impact on land owners
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Introduced species

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Foxes

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Introduced species- foxes

Impact to environment

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Foxes Impact native fauna species such as ground nesting birds, small mammals and and small reptiles such as green turtles.

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Introduced species- foxes

Impact to society

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Foxes Impact society due to causing economic losses to farmers by preying on newborn lambs, goats and chickens

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Climate change

Impacts to environment

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  • increased risk of bushfires
  • increased intensity of floods and droughts
  • ecosystems changing as new flora and fauna species appear and disappear
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Climate change

Impacts to society

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  • society will need to adapt to increased temperatures (or we could just act to reduce climate change(
  • rising sea levels which cause flooding will result in damaged infrastructure and cost a lot to rebuild
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Urbanisation

Impacts to environment

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  • loss of vegetation, habitats and biodiversity.

- increases in air, soil, and water pollution due to increasing developed areas

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Urbanisation

Impacts to society

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  • Negative impacts to the atmosphere from increased greenhouse gasses.
  • Reduction in natural environments, reducing the availability of outdoor recreation areas

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