Featured Geography Video for Term 4, 2019

Crime, Safety and Liveability

Place and Liveability

What can be done to reduce crime, increase safety and improve liveability in different communities? This clip considers factors influencing crime rates and perceived safety, and compares relevant facts and statistics from two different Melbourne suburbs – Richmond and Camberwell.

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Strategies for Managing Malaria

Understanding Malaria

Including interviews with world-leading scientists and researchers, this video evaluates the many management strategies that have been employed in the fight against malaria. From physical barriers, to hazardous natural predators, controversial pesticides, and costly drugs and repellents, students will come to understand that no single measure is perfect on its own.

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Tropical Cyclones

Weather Hazards

Tropical cyclones, also called hurricanes and typhoons, cause catastrophic damage when they strike land. This programme explores the life cycle of cyclones – how atmospheric conditions, ocean temperatures and the Earth’s rotation combine to create them, how they are driven by winds and eventually weaken after moving over land.

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