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The student understands how physical processes shape patterns in the physical environment. The student is expected to:
Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth-Sun relationships.
Describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic forces, erosion, and soil-building processes.
Examine the physical processes that affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
The student understands the patterns and characteristics of major landforms, climates, and ecosystems of Earth and the interrelated processes that produce them. The student is expected to:
Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate regions.
Describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development.
Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions.
The student understands how political, economic, and social processes shape cultural patterns and characteristics in various places and regions. The student is expected to:
Analyze how the character of a place is related to its political, economic, social, and cultural elements.
Interpret political, economic, social, and demographic indicators (gross domestic product per capita, life expectancy, literacy, and infant mortality) to determine the level of development and standard of living in nations using the terms Human Development Index, less developed, newly industrialized, and more developed.
The student understands the types, patterns, and processes of settlement. The student is expected to:
Locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of settlements.
Explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transportation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities.
The student understands the growth, distribution, movement, and characteristics of world population. The student is expected to:
Construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends.
Explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration.
Describe trends in world population growth and distribution.
Examine benefits and challenges of globalization, including connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture.
The student understands how people, places, and environments are connected and interdependent. The student is expected to:
Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology.
Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters such as El Niño, floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
Evaluate the economic and political relationships between settlements and the environment, including sustainable development and renewable/non-renewable resources.
The student understands the concept of region as an area of Earth's surface with related geographic characteristics. The student is expected to:
Identify physical and/or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political units, river systems, and religion that constitute a region.
Describe different types of regions, including formal, functional, and perceptual regions.

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