Standard 2: Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places.

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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

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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.

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