World Geography End-of-Course Review
 Describe the impact of significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced
migration patterns and shaped the distribution of culture groups – Beringia
 Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment – Bridges, Tunnels
 Analyze ways significant major technological innovations have allowed humans to adapt to places – Air
Conditioning in the Sunbelt
 Analyze the impact of desertification
 Interpret political, economic, social and demographic indicators (GDP, life expectancy, literacy, and
infant mortality) to determine the Human Development Index level
 Evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions – Spanish colonization in Latin
America
 Evaluate the experiences of various racial groups during and after apartheid
 Identify examples of cultures that maintain the ways of traditional societies
 Evaluate the spread of cultural traits to find examples of cultural convergence and divergence – The
English Language
 Describe reasons why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
 Describe major world religions – animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism
 Explain how elevation, latitude, wind systems, ocean currents, position on a continent and mountain
barriers influence climate
 Describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development – Himalaya
Mountains, tectonic plate movement, identify peninsulas
 Classify where socialism falls along the economic spectrum between free enterprise and communism
No government
influence
Some government
influence
Government owns many
businesses
Complete government
ownership
 Describe why fewer people tend to live in the center of a typical modern American city than in its
residential and suburban areas
 Compare economic, political or social opportunities in different cultures for women, ethnic/ religious
minorities and other underrepresented populations – Afghanistan
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Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to create conflict/ war and impact
international relations of sovereign nations – US troops in Afghanistan
 Locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of
settlements – Fresh Water
 Compare maps of political boundaries to make inferences about the distribution of political power –
Independence Movements in Africa
 Explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns – urbanization
 Examine benefits and challenges of globalization including connectivity and pandemics
 Explain how political, economic, social and environmental push and pull factors affect flows of human
migration
 Analyze population pyramids to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to
predict future trends
 Compare ways cultures depend on the physical environment including the influences of culture and
the development of technology/ innovations
 Compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization including
outsourcing and specialization
 Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences
of extreme weather and other natural disasters – an earthquake in Haiti compared to an earthquake
in San Francisco
 Analyze how the creation, distribution, and management of key natural resources affects
specialization and the movement of products
 Evaluate the economic and political relationships between settlements and the environment including
sustainable development and renewable/ nonrenewable resources – Lumber, World Oil Reserves
 Identify physical and/ or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political
units, river systems and religion that constitute a region – Amazon Rainforest
 Describe different types of regions including formal, functional and perceptual regions
 Evaluate relationships between past events and current conditions – Israel
 Compare global trade patterns over time and examine the implications of globalization including
outsourcing and free trade zones – NAFTA, EU
 Describe the forces that determine the distribution of goods and services in free enterprise, socialist
and communist economic systems
 Assess how changes in climate, resources and infrastructure (technology, transportation and
communication) affect the patterns of economic activities – growth of high tech industries in Brazil
 Evaluate the significance of major technological innovations in the areas of transportation and energy
and their effects on the environment – Combustion Engine
 Evaluate the geographic and economic impact of policies related to the development, use and scarcity
of natural resources such as regulations of water
 Understand the connections between levels of development and economic activities – Primary,
Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
 Asses causes, effects and perceptions of conflicts between groups of people, including modern
genocides and terrorism
 Explain how citizenship practices, public policies and decision making may be influenced by cultural
beliefs including nationalism and patriotism
 Describe trends in world population growth and distribution – J Curve
 Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to impact international political
relations of sovereign nations – China’s Population
 Compare maps of voting patterns to make inferences about the distribution of political power - South
Africa
 Describe how democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, republic, theocracy and totalitarian systems operate
in specific countries
 Explain the influence of climate on the distribution of biomes in different regions – Steppes
 Explain weather conditions and climate in relation to Earth-Sun Relationships
 Describe and compare patterns of culture such as language, religion, land use, education and customs
that make specific regions of the world distinctive – Japan
 Describe the impact of new information technologies such and the internet, Global Positioning System
and Geographic Information System
 Analyze the human and physical factors that influence the power to control territory – Russian/
Chechen Conflict
 Compare global trade patterns over time – Silk Road
 Analyze cultural changes in specific regions caused by migration, war, trade, innovations and diffusion
– Portuguese in Brazil, Democracy in India, the spread of Islam
 Compare life in a variety of urban and rural areas in the world – homogeneous, heterogeneous
 Trace the spatial diffusion of phenomena such as the Columbian Exchange and describe its effects on
regions of contact
 Identify and give examples of different points of view that influence the development of public policies
and decision-making processes on local, state, national and international levels
 Describe elements of culture including language, religion, beliefs and customs, institutions and
technologies – Indian Caste System
 Examine the environmental, economic and social impacts of advances in technology on agriculture and
natural resources – Motorized Farm Equipment
 Compare ways people satisfy their basic needs through the production of goods and services such as
subsistence agriculture versus commercial agriculture