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DC.6.World Geography and Cultures
World Geography and Cultures
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
6.5. Students acquire a framework for thinking about Earth’s physical systems: Earth-sun relationships, climate and related ecosystems, and land forms.
6.5.1. Recall and apply knowledge concerning Earth-sun relationships, including “reasons for seasons” and time zones.
6.5.3. Explain the difference between weather and climate.
6.3. Students identify and analyze the human activities that shape Earth’s surface, including population numbers, distribution and growth rates, and cultural factors.
6.3.1. Explain key migration patterns and the interrelationships among migration, settlement, population distribution patterns, landforms, and climates (e.g., East Indian-Polynesian).
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6.3.10. Identify international organizations of global power and influence (e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization/NATO, the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations/ASEAN, and the Non-Aligned Movemen
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6.1. Students use maps, globes, atlases, and other technologies to acquire and process information about people, places, and environments.
6.1.10. Explain that people develop their own mental maps or personal perceptions of places in the world, that their experiences and culture influence their perceptions, and that these perceptions tend to influence their decision-making.
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6.1.2. Explain that maps contain spatial elements of point, line, area, and volume.
6.1.3. Locate cardinal directions, poles, equator, hemispheres, continents, oceans, major mountain ranges, and other major geographical features of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
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6.1.7. Locate and define various large regions in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and divide those regions into smaller regions based on race, language, nationality, or religion.
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6.1.8. Ask geographic questions and obtain answers from a variety of sources, such as books, atlases, and other written materials; statistical source material; fieldwork and interviews; remote sensing; word processing; and GIS. Reach conclusions and give oral, w
6.6. Students analyze ways in which humans affect and are affected by their physical environment.
6.6.1. Identify human-caused threats to the world’s environment: atmospheric and surface pollution, deforestation, desertification, salinization, overfishing, urban sprawl, and species extinction.
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6.6.5. Analyze world patterns of resource distribution and utilization, and explain the consequences of use of renewable and nonrenewable resources.
6.6.6. Assess how people’s perceptions of their relationship to natural phenomena have changed over time, and analyze how these changing perceptions are reflected in human activity and land use.
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6.6.7. Explain and evaluate the relationships between agricultural land uses and the environment (grazing, grain cropping, and tree farming).
6.4.5. Map the worldwide occurrence of the three major economic systems: traditional, command, and market. Describe the characteristics of each, and identify influences leading to potential change.
6.4.7. Explain how change in communication and transportation technology is contributing to both cultural convergence and divergence. Explain how places and regions serve as cultural symbols (e.g., Jerusalem as a sacred place for Jews, Christians, and Muslims).
6.4.9. Identify patterns of economic activity in terms of primary (growing or extracting), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (distributing and services) activities.
6.2.2. Give examples and analyze ways in which people’s changing views of places and regions reflect cultural change.
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6.2.3. Explain that the concept of “region” has been devised by people as a way of categorizing, interpreting, and ordering complex information about Earth.