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GeographyTeachers' Notes
Teachers' Notes
Introduction
Answers to Focusing Questions
Activity A Answers
Activity B Answers
Activity C Answers
Activity D Answers
Activity E Answers
Activity F Answers
Activity G Answers
Activity H Answers
Activity I - Criteria
Students' Activities
Fact Sheets
Resources
News Stories
Cartoons
Glossary
Downloads
Shark!


Activity B: geographic significance

Resources
Conserving our fisheries resources
The importance of the fishing industry to New Zealand
Life under the ocean wave
Hoki: export heavyweights
Snapper: everyone's favourite fish
Rock Lobsters: spiny wanderers
Orange Roughy: delicacy from the deep
History of fishing in New Zealand
News stories from the early 1980s
Important ideas
Patterns, processes and regions
Interaction
Culture and perceptions
Skills
Processing information
Evaluation
Selected answers
1 Why are these significant geographical issues?
They affect the problem, which is a resource issue - the sustainable use of fish.
2 At what level are they significant - local, regional and/or national?
At all levels.

 

Introduction | Focusing Q's Answers | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I

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