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- %CO:A,12,72%Attainment target 5 : Human influences on the Earth
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- Pupils should develop knowledge and understanding of the ways in which
- human activities affect the Earth
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- Level 1 * know that human activities produce a wide range of waste
- products.
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- Level 2 * know that some waste products decay naturally but often do
- so over a long period of time.
- * be able to keep a diary, in a variety of forms of change
- over time.
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- Level 3 * know that human activity may produce local changes in the
- Earth's surface, air and water.
- * be able to give an account of a project to help improve the
- local environment.
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- Level 4 * know that some waste materials can be recycled.
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- Level 5 * be able to describe the sources, implications and possible
- prevention of pollution.
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- * be able to classify waste products as biodegradable and
- non-biodegradable.
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- * be able to argue for and against particular planning
- proposals in the locality which may have environmental
- impact.
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- Level 6 * understand the processes which affect water purity.
- * understand the importance of good water management.
- * be able to identify the positive and negative effects of
- exploitation of raw materials, including harmful effects on
- the environment.
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- Level 7 * understand the balance of advantages and disadvantages in
- the way human activity affects the enviroment.
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- * know that the impact of human activity on the Earth is
- relatively recent and understand that it is related to the
- size of the population, economic factors and industrial
- requirements.
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- Level 8 * understand that major changes in the biosphere can result
- from human activity and that the time-scale for its
- restoration is relatively long.
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- Level 9 * understand the basic scientific principles associated with a
- major change in the biosphere, for example, destruction of
- the ozone layer, "the greenhouse effect".
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- Level 10 * be able to select and weigh evidence to form reasoned
- judgements about some of the major ecological issues facing
- society.
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