GEOS1001 Land suitability mapping
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Task 1: Land suitability mapping [10 Marks]
The Challenge class in Week 6 required you to produce maps of land suitability for wheat production, and where wheat is actually grown. Submit these maps.
Task 2: Measuring sea-level rise and its effects: from Greenland to Bangladesh [40 Marks]
The Challenge classes in Week 7 and Week 10 address global sea-level change. You must include these maps, and cross-reference these in your text. You should also use additional external references to support your analysis.
Write a 800 word mini essay that describes: (i) trends in the annual ice melt in Greenland using the 1979-2007 data analysed in class and citing this 2022 article in The ConversationLinks to an external site.
Task 3: Environmental assessment of acid mine damage [10 Marks]
In no more than 400 words, and using the graphs you generated in class, and referring to content covered in the Week 9 challenge:
3.1 Explain how arsenic (III) varies across the study site (4 Marks).
3.2 Describe the correlation between iron and arsenic at the site. Discuss, based on your knowledge of acid mine drainage, whether you think that these data make sense? (6 Marks)
Note: If you are unsure how to answer this question, read through the articles at the bottom of the 9.3 Challenge page.
Task 4: Population growth, incidence of long-term health conditions and urban heat stress in Sydney [40 Marks]
Use the maps you produced in Week 11 and Week 12 as the basis for an 800-word mini essay to the following question: what relationships do you observe between the geography of heat stress in Sydney and the geography of long-term health conditions and projected population growth? You must include the maps produced in your practical classes, and cross-reference your observations from the maps in your text, as well as use some external references to support your analysis.
2025-05-30