Standard 3: Understand the relationships between the Earth's ecosystems and the populations that dwell within them.

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Number: SS.912.G.3
Title: Understand the relationships between the Earth's ecosystems and the populations that dwell within them.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Geography

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SS.912.G.3.AP.1
Using geographic terms, identify characteristics of major ecosystems of Earth, such as location, climate, landforms, and resources.
SS.912.G.3.AP.2
Use geographic terms and tools to describe how weather and climate influence a location.
SS.912.G.3.AP.3
Use geographic terms and tools to identify different opinions on the use of renewable and non-renewable resources in Florida, the United States, and the world.
SS.912.G.3.AP.4
Use geographic terms and tools to describe how Earth’s internal changes such as volcanoes and earthquakes and external changes such as droughts, floods, and erosion impact the characteristics of locations
SS.912.G.3.AP.5
Use geographic terms and tools to describe how changes in the distribution or use of water (hydrology), such as damming a river or building an irrigation system, impact locations.

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