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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.
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6.5.4. Identify and account for the distribution pattern of the world’s climates.
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HUMAN SYSTEMS
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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6.3.4. Relate population growth rates to health statistics, food supply, or other measures of well-being.
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6.3.5. Map the distribution patterns of the world’s major religions, and identify architectural features associated with each.
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6.3.6. Describe the effect of religion on world economic development patterns, cultural conflict, and social integration.
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THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS
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.
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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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6.1.4. Locate major countries of the Eastern and Western hemispheres and principal bodies of water, regions, and mountains.
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6.1.5. Explain how latitude affects climates of continents.
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6.1.6. Explain the relationship between lines of longitude and time zones.
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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
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6.1.9. Give examples of how maps can be used to convey a point of view, so that critical analysis of map sources is essential.
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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
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.
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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).
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ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND URBANIZATION
6.4. Students describe rural and urban land use, ways of making a living, cultural patterns, and economic and political systems.
6.4.2. Understand the relationships between changing transportation technologies and increasing urbanization.
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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.
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6.4.6. Explain the meaning of the word infrastructure, and analyze its relationship to a country’s level of development.
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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).
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6.4.9. Identify patterns of economic activity in terms of primary (growing or extracting), secondary (manufacturing), and tertiary (distributing and services) activities.
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PLACES AND REGIONS
6.2. Students acquire a framework for thinking geographically, including the location and unique characteristics of places.
6.2.1. Name and locate the world’s continents, major bodies of water, major mountain ranges, major river systems, major countries, and major cities.
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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.
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