Standard 4: Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations.

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Number: SS.912.G.4
Title: Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Geography

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SS.912.G.4.AP.1
Compare the changes in population growth and other demographic data for selected places.
SS.912.G.4.AP.2
Use geographic terms and tools to describe the push/pull factors contributing to human migration.
SS.912.G.4.AP.3
Use geographic terms and tools to examine effects of migration on the place of origin and destination, including border areas.
SS.912.G.4.AP.4
Utilize geographic terms and tools to identify issues in globalization, such as outsourcing and unfair treatment of certain population groups.
SS.912.G.4.AP.5
Use geographic terms and tools to identify changes in cities and urban centers.
SS.912.G.4.AP.6
Use geographic terms and tools to identify an effect of a change in a specific characteristic of a place on the human population of that place.
SS.912.G.4.AP.7
Use geographic terms and tools to identify characteristics of cultural diffusion throughout selected places, regions, and the world.
SS.912.G.4.AP.8
Use geographic concepts to identify political, social, and economic factors that define space, such as patterns of land use and availability of transportation systems.
SS.912.G.4.AP.9
Use political maps to identify changes in boundaries or governments within a continent.

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