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Number: SS.8.G.2

Title: Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places.

Type: Standard

Subject: Social Studies

Grade: 8

Strand: Geography

This cluster includes the following benchmarks

Code	Description
SS.8.G.2.1:	Identify the physical elements and the human elements that define and differentiate regions as relevant to American history.
SS.8.G.2.2:	Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of regional issues in different parts of the United States that have had critical economic, physical, or political ramifications.
SS.8.G.2.3:	Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of how selected regions of the United States have changed over time.

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
SS.8.G.2.AP.1:	Identify the physical elements and the human elements that define and differentiate regions.
SS.8.G.2.AP.2:	Use geographic terms and tools to identify the economic, physical, or political ramifications of cataclysmic natural or man-made disasters.
SS.8.G.2.AP.3:	Use geographic terms and tools to identify how selected regions of the United States have changed over time.

Standard 2 : Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places.