Standard 5: Understand how human actions can impact the environment.

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Number: SS.912.G.5
Title: Understand how human actions can impact the environment.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Geography

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SS.912.G.5.AP.1
Identify examples of how the Earth’s physical systems, such as landforms, locations, resources, and climate affect humans in case studies.
SS.912.G.5.AP.2
Identify how changes in the physical environment of a place can impact its capacity to support human activity in case studies.
SS.912.G.5.AP.3
Identify how human use of technology affects the environment of places in case studies
SS.912.G.5.AP.4
Identify how humans impact the diversity and productivity of an ecosystem in case studies.
SS.912.G.5.AP.5
Use geographic terms and tools to identify effects of government policies or programs for resource use and management in case studies.
SS.912.G.5.AP.6
Identify how change to an environmental factor can affect an ecosystem in case studies.

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