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Credits: 1

Course Description:

In Geography Studies, students

• examine people, places, and environments at local, regional, national, and international scales from the spatial and ecological perspectives of geography
• describe the influence of geography on events of the past and present.

A significant portion of the course centers around the physical processes that shape patterns in

• physical environment
• characteristics of major land forms
• climate
• ecosystems
• interrelationships

Another portion of the course centers around the political, economic, and social processes that shape cultural patterns of

• regions
• types and patterns of settlement
• distributions and movements of world population
• relationships among people
• places
• environments
• concepts of regions

In World Geography, students

• analyze how location affects economic activities in different economic systems throughout the world
• identify the processes that influence political divisions of the planet and analyze how different points of view affect the development of public policies
• compare how components of culture shape the characteristics of regions and analyze the impact of technology and human modifications on the physical environment
• use problem-solving and decision-making skills to ask and answer geographic questions.