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The Major Themes of Geography are: location, place, human interaction
with the environment, movement, and regions.
Geography is connected to the economy and culture of a region.
Maps, atlases, and graphs help us to understand the physical and
political world.
Knowledge of the language and symbols of geography can help us to
better understand the world.
We can read and create maps and graphs.
Reading maps uses receptive language, creating maps uses expressive
language.
The discipline of geography has a specific vocabulary.
Geographic terms are used to describe the physical world.
Demographic terms are used to describe the political world.
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Use map
and to interpret different kinds of projections, as well as topographic,
landform globe skills learned in pre-kindergarten to grade five, political,
population, and climate maps.
Use
geographic terms correctly, such as delta,
glacier, location, settlement, region, natural resource, human resource,
mountain, hill, plain, plateau, river, island, isthmus, peninsula, erosion,
climate drought, monsoon, hurricane, ocean and wind currents, tropics, rain
forest, tundra, desert, continent, region, country, nation, and urbanization.
Interpret
geographic information from a graph or chart and construct a graph or chart
that conveys geographic information (e.g., about rainfall, temperature, or
population size).
Explain
the difference between absolute and relative location and give examples of
different ways to indicate relative location for countries or cities across
the world.
Identify
how current world atlases are organized and the kind of information they
provide for each continent and country.
Identify
what time zones are, and when and how precise measurement of longitude was
scientifically and historically determined, the function and location of
the international date line, and the function of the Royal Observatory in
Greenwich, England, and give examples of difference in time in countries in
different parts of the world.
Use the
following demographic terms correctly: ethnic
group, religious group, and
linguistic group.
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Sample Assessments
Sample Learning Experiences
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