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Updated 9/7/2021
1st & 2nd 9 Weeks:
Geographers use maps and data to depict relationships of time, space, and scale.
Define major geographic concepts that illustrate spatial relationships.
Geographers analyze complex issues and relationships with a distinctively spatial perspective.
Understanding where and how people live is essential to understanding global cultural, political, and economic patterns.
Changes in population are due to mortality, fertility, and migration, which are influenced by the interplay of environmental, economic, cultural, and political factors.
Changes in population have long- and short-term effects on a place’s economy, culture, and politics.
Changes in population are due to mortality, fertility, and migration, which are influenced by the interplay of environmental, economic, cultural, and political factors.
Cultural practices vary across geographical locations because of physical geography and available resources.
The interaction of people contributes to the spread of cultural practices.
Cultural ideas, practices, and innovations change or disappear over time.
The interaction of people contributes to the spread of cultural practices.
Cultural ideas, practices, and innovations change or disappear over time.
The political organization of space results from historical and current processes, events, and ideas.
Political boundaries and divisions of governance, between states and within them, reflect balances of power that have been negotiated or imposed.
Political, economic, cultural, or technological changes can challenge state sovereignty.
Availability of resources and cultural practices influence agricultural practices and land-use patterns.
Agriculture has changed over time because of cultural diffusion and advances in technology.
Availability of resources and cultural practices influence agricultural practices and land-use patterns.
Agricultural production and consumption patterns vary in different locations, presenting different environmental, social, economic, and cultural opportunities and challenges.
The presence and growth of cities vary across geographical locations because of physical geography and resources.
The attitudes and values of a population, as well as the balance of power within that population, are reflected in the built landscape.
Urban areas face unique economic, political, cultural, and environmental challenges.
Industrialization, past and present, has facilitated improvements in standards of living, but it has also contributed to geographically uneven
Economic and social development happen at different times and rates in different places.
Environmental problems stemming from industrialization may be remedied through sustainable development strategies.
