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K–12 Standards

Grades 9-12: Geography

Other Florida Social Studies sets

Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technology to report information.SS.912.G.1

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    Design maps using a variety of technologies based on descriptive data to explain physical and cultural attributes of major world regions.SS.912.G.1.1

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    Use spatial perspective and appropriate geographic terms and tools, including the Six Essential Elements, as organizational schema to describe any given place.SS.912.G.1.2

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    Employ applicable units of measurement and scale to solve simple locational problems using maps, and globes.SS.912.G.1.3

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    Analyze geographic information from a variety of sources including primary sources, atlases, computer, and digital sources, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and a broad variety of maps.SS.912.G.1.4

Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places.SS.912.G.2

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    Identify the physical characteristics and the human characteristics that define and differentiate regions.SS.912.G.2.1

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    Describe the factors and processes that contribute to the differences between developing and developed regions of the world.SS.912.G.2.2

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of regional issues in different parts of the world that have critical economic, physical, or political ramifications.SS.912.G.2.3

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of how selected regions change over time.SS.912.G.2.4

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of debates over how human actions modify a selected region.SS.912.G.2.5

Understand the relationships between the Earth's ecosystems and the populations that dwell within them.SS.912.G.3

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    Use geographic terms to locate and describe major ecosystems of Earth.SS.912.G.3.1

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    Use geographic terms and tools to explain how weather and climate influence the natural character of a place.SS.912.G.3.2

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    Use geographic terms and tools to explain differing perspectives on the use of renewable and non-renewable resources in Florida, the United States, and the world.SS.912.G.3.3

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    Use geographic terms and tools to explain how the Earth's internal changes and external changes influence the character of places.SS.912.G.3.4

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    Use geographic terms and tools to explain how hydrology influences the physical character of a place.SS.912.G.3.5

Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations.SS.912.G.4

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    Interpret population growth and other demographic data for any given place.SS.912.G.4.1

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze the push, and pull factors contributing to human migration within and among places.SS.912.G.4.2

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze the effects of migration both on the place of origin and destination, including border areas.SS.912.G.4.3

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of issues in globalization.SS.912.G.4.4

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of the development, growth, and changing nature of cities and urban centers.SS.912.G.4.5

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    Use geographic terms and tools to predict the effect of a change in a specific characteristic of a place on the human population of that place.SS.912.G.4.6

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    Use geographic terms and tools to explain cultural diffusion throughout places, regions, and the world.SS.912.G.4.7

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    Use geographic concepts to analyze spatial phenomena and to discuss economic, political, and social factors that define, and interpret space.SS.912.G.4.8

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    Use political maps to describe the change in boundaries and governments within continents over time.SS.912.G.4.9

Understand how human actions can impact the environment.SS.912.G.5

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    Analyze case studies of how the Earth's physical systems affect humans.SS.912.G.5.1

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    Analyze case studies of how changes in the physical environment of a place can increase or diminish its capacity to support human activity.SS.912.G.5.2

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    Analyze case studies of the effects of human use of technology on the environment of places.SS.912.G.5.3

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    Analyze case studies of how humans impact the diversity and productivity of ecosystems.SS.912.G.5.4

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    Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of policies, and programs for resource use and management.SS.912.G.5.5

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    Analyze case studies to predict how a change to an environmental factor can affect an ecosystem.SS.912.G.5.6

Understand how to apply geography to interpret the past and present and plan for the future.SS.912.G.6

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    Use appropriate maps and other graphic representations to analyze geographic problems, and changes over time.SS.912.G.6.1

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    Develop databases about specific places and provide a simple analysis about their importance.SS.912.G.6.2

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    Formulate hypotheses and test geographic models that demonstrate complex relationships between physical and cultural phenomena.SS.912.G.6.3

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    Translate narratives about places and events into graphic representations.SS.912.G.6.4

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    Develop criteria for assessing issues relating to human spatial organization and environmental stability to identify solutions.SS.912.G.6.5

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