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Humanities: Landforms in Australia

A Lib Guide for Year 7 History

Wilpena Pound

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Notetaking

One effective strategy for improving retention is note taking – not just because you’ll have a written record to refer to in the future, but also because the actual act of taking notes can help cement concepts in your mind. There is no single way of taking notes.  Browse these resources to find what suits you.

Tips on how to organise the information you've read into a useful set of notes State Library of Victoria - Ergo

Once you've read this, watch the Cornell Method video. This is an excellent strategy.

Note-taking (University of Melbourne)

Creating References

Referencing or citing your sources is an important part of academic writing and research. It lets you acknowledge the ideas or words of others and helps avoid plagiarism.

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Coastal landforms

The links below will take you to some well-known and not so known landforms of Australia.

  1. Australian Landmarks - 'Top 10 Australian Landforms' 
    https://australianlandmarks.com.au/lists/australian-landforms-top-10-list   

  2. Kid Cyber - Australian Landforms 
    https://www.kidcyber.com.au/australian-landforms   

  3. Australian Government - Geoscience Australia 
    http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms 

Click on the link below to go to a video on coastal landforms produced by the ABC, 2023.

Landscapes and Landforms: Coastal landscapes - ABC Education

Torquay

Can you identify the coastal landforms of Torquay below?

 

'Hide Out' - Rocky Point, Torquay | AlexanderShorePhoto

Point Danger - Torquay | Andrew | Flickr

23 Phenomenal Things to Do in Torquay (Our 2024 Guide)

Depositional and erosional land forms.

NST Geography Trips on X: "Coastal landforms are the ...

NST Geography Trips on X: "Coastal landforms are the ...

Erosion and weathering

For an explanation of swash and backwash, watch this short video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN42EWWTP3w

Longshore Drift

For an explanation of longshore drift, watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29o5ntbxjJs

A drawing explaining the process of longshore drift.

An analysis of coastal erosion on coastal landforms by Geoscience Australia.

Coastal erosion | Geoscience Australia (ga.gov.au)

Coastal landforms and features.

Coastal landforms explanation from BBC Bitesize.

Landforms created by erosion - Coastal landforms - KS3 Geography (Environment and society) Revision - BBC Bitesize

A video from ABC Geoscience examining the Twelve Apostles.

Twelve Apostles (youtube.com)

 

The diagram below includes some common coastal land forms.

A diagram of various erosional landforms. | Landforms ...

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