Sustainable Biomes
Biomes as systems, how they are altered, and what it would take to use them without destroying them.
- Global biome distribution
- Climate and biome type
- Biome productivity and food production
NSW Geography Stage 5 (Year 9) concepts - sustainable biomes, food and fibre, human wellbeing - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Geography Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Biomes as systems, how they are altered, and what it would take to use them without destroying them.
Where food and fibre come from, how production is changing, and the trade-offs in feeding a growing population.
What a good life requires, how to measure it, and why wellbeing varies so sharply between places.
A Geography Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| discuss | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.