1a- science- Mr McKenzie

Bushfires

Explain what the terms ‘natural hazard’ and ‘natural disaster’ mean
- A natural disaster is a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or cyclone that causes
great damage or great loss of life. A natural hazard is an environmental phenomenon
that has the potential to impact societies and the human environment.

List the types of natural hazards that can affect people

- Some natural hazards can include droughts, tropical cyclones, air pollution, desert
locusts, floods and flash floods, landslides or mudslides, avalanches, dust storms and
sandstorms, and many more.

What is another name for a ‘bushfire’?

- Some other words for bushfires are brush fire, grass fire, wildfire, bonfire, campfire,
inferno, and Blackfire

Explain the difference between a forest fire and a grass fire

- Grass fires spread much more quickly than forest fires because grass is a fine fuel.
Grass fires tend to be less intense than a bushfire but still generate enormous amounts
of radiant heat, the taller and drier the grass the more intensely it will burn. A forest
fire will burn for a lot longer and will spread embers and ash everywhere which can
cause more fires throughout the rest of the bush.

Study Figure 1. With the aid of an atlas describe the distribution of bushfires in
Australia

- Bushfires in Australia are distributed across regions, and influenced by climate and
vegetation. Southern and eastern areas experience frequent fires, driven by hot, dry
conditions and inflammable eucalyptus forests.

Study Figure 2. With the aid of an atlas describe how the bushfire season
changes as you travel across the continent from south to north.

- The bushfire season for the north and south are different because it depends on what
season it is. The further north you go the fire season starts in winter and ends in
spring, a little bit further south the fire season is in spring, more south the fire season
is in spring and summer, more south the fire season is in summer, and the furthest
south the fire season is in summer and autumn.

1b- science- Mr McKenzie

2a- religion- Mrs Samuel

Dear Pope Francis,

I hope I this letter finds you in good health. I am a 15 year old boy that lives in NSW of
Australia. At the moment we are suffering, we are suffering from climate change. We are
suffering from huge bushfires up in the Barkley region of the northern territory, our sea
levels are rising and because the sea levels rising our beaches are disappearing and putting
homes at risk, there are big cyclones pounding all of our coasts, there are also massive
floods that happen almost every year and last year there were huge floods in the town of
Lismore which left many people homeless and without jobs, and finally our seas
temperature is rising and because of this our reefs and especially our great barrier reef is
suffering from this and it is dying.

I hope when you get this letter, you can bring people’s attention to these struggles that we
have done to ourselves. This cannot be stopped without people’s attention being brought to
it. I hoe when you get this letter you can understand the pain and suffering that our
beautiful country has felt and is feeling now and will forever feel until we do something
about it.

Yours faithfully,
Sam Cleary
Chevalier College, Burradoo.

2b- religion- Mrs Samuel

3a- pdhpe- Mrs Whitton

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3b- pdhpe- Mrs Whitton

Lesson sequence 5- road safety e drink and drug driving

A2
1 – using their mobile phone while driving, they were also speeding and weren’t looking at
the road.
2 – some other potential distractions for drivers while on the road are eating or drinking while
driving and also talking or texting with someone while driving.
3 – because they see a notification come down and they want to reply to it
4 – https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/safe-
driving
https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/driver-
licences/learner-driver-licence/safer-drivers-course
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/Safe-driving

A3

- Alcohol- Alcohol impairs coordination, reaction time, and judgement, endangering

lives and contributing to traffic accidents
- Cannabis- cannabis impairs concentration, coordination, and reaction time, posing
risks to driver safety and increasing accidents.
 - Ice- ice (methamphetamine) intensifies alertness but impairs judgement and
coordination, escalating the risks of accidents and danger

4a- agriculture- Mrs Caines

Weights of meat birds

High loin hybrid

8th march 2023.

46g.
47
43
44
42
44
48
42
42
46
44
42
39
Avg=43.7
Range=9

10th march 2023

62g
74
69
81
69
71
68
67
67
65
60
68
64
Avg=68
Range=21

13th march 2023

116g
141
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131
142
159
143
138
122
142
134
124
135
Avg=135.4
Grown=67
Range=43

15th march 2023

180g
213
212
213
191
190
192
216
200
210
203
183
182
Avg=194.07
Grown=
Range=36

20th march 2023

418g
424
359
435
365
378
427
329
436
425
375
425
430
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Grown=
Range=107

21st march 2023

402g
430
489
473
462
407
484
409
474
478
467
475
482
Avg=456.3
Grown=54.3
Range=82

24th march 2023

660g

671

623

661

582

607

651

560

616

472

661

658

659

Avg=621

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Range=188

4b- agriculture- Mrs Caines

Dear Mrs and Mr Good,

We would like to Thank you for the opportunity that you have given
us by providing the school with two dairy calves. This experience has
been one to remember, from learning what it takes to take care of
livestock. Firstly, feeding them, the whole process of taking time out
of our day to come down to the Ag plot and make the milk to then go
down and feed the calves, was genuinely so much fun. Secondly,
again being able to come down and clean out the shed and small
paddock they were in was a lot of fun. This whole experience has
taught the whole of our class, the many different aspects to taking
care of livestock. We have learnt what adequate living conditions look
like, what different feeds calves need to have to be satisfied, and just
in general how to work with our peers on this project.

We are so grateful to of been able to have this opportunity and hope

that we can work with you again in the future.

Sincerely,
Sam Cleary, Jackson Bryant and Kate Howard

5a-

5b-