Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations, and diffusion
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United States Curriculum
Grade 9 Social Studies
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Analyze current events to infer the physical and human processes that lead to the formation of boundaries and other political divisions
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Analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends
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Analyze the environmental, economic, and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and natural resources
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Apply foundational language skills to engage in civil discourse about social studies topics, including those with multiple perspectives
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Assess how changes in climate, resources, and infrastructure (technology, transportation, and communication) affect the location and patterns of economic activities
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Citizenship. The student understands how different points of view influence the development of public policies and decision-making processes at national and international levels
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Compare the ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture or cottage industries
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Compare ways that humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment, including the influences of culture and technology
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Create and interpret different types of maps to answer geographic questions, infer relationships, and analyze change
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Describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education, and customs that make specific regions of the world distinctive
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Describe distinctive cultural patterns and landscapes associated with different places in Texas, the United States, and other regions of the world and how these patterns
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Describe how physical processes such as hurricanes, El Niño, earthquakes, and volcanoes affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere
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Describe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in traditional, free enterprise, socialist, and communist economic systems
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Describe trends in world population growth and distribution
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Economics. The student understands the economic importance of, and issues related to, the location and management of resources
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Evaluate the economic and political relationships between settlements and the environment, including sustainable development and renewable/non-renewable resources
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Evaluate the significance of major technological innovations in the areas of transportation and energy that have been used to modify the physical environment
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Explain governmental and democratic processes such as voting, due process, and caucuses using simulations and models
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Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent, and mountain barriers influence temperature, precipitation, and distribution of climate
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Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions
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Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth-Sun relationships
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Geography. The student understands how political, economic, and social processes shape cultural patterns and characteristics in various places and regions
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Geography. The student understands the types, patterns, and processes of settlement
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Government. The student understands the spatial characteristics of a variety of global political units
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History. The student understands how geography and processes of spatial exchange (diffusion) influenced events in the past and helped to shape the present
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Identify different points of view about an issue or current topic
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Identify examples of cultures that maintain traditional ways, including traditional economies
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Science, technology, and society. The student understands how current technology affects human interaction
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Understand the connections between levels of development and economic activities (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary)
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Use social studies terminology correctly
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