Geography Standards
The student understands the world in spatial terms
• Uses variety of maps, geographic technologies to depict geographic problems
• Understands advantages and disadvantages of using maps from different sources
• Uses mental maps to answer complex geographic questions
• Understands how cultural and technological characteristics can link regions
• Understands how various factors affect people’s mental maps
The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment
• Understands how social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors affect regions
• Understands past and present trends in human migration
• Understands how allocation and control of earth’s surface affects interactions of people from different regions
• Understands the global impact of human changes in the physical environment
• Understands how humans adapt to physical environments
• Understands the relationship between resources and explorations, colonization,, and settlement of different regions of the world
• Understands the concept of sustainable development
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