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World Geography Final ExamStandards SummaryNGS 1.1NGS 1.3NGS 1C.3NGS 1.0NGS 1.2NGS 4.0NGS 15.3NGS 4B.1NGS 7.0NGS 7B.2NGS 7.1NGS 7.3NGS 7.2NGS 7B.1NGS 4A.2NGS 4B.2NGS 4C.1NGS 10.0How to use maps and other graphic representations to depictgeographic problemsHow to use geographic representations and tools to analyze,explain, and solve geographic problemsChoose and give reasons to use specific technologies to analyzeselected geographic problems (e.g., aerial photographs,satellite-produced imagery, and geographic information systems[GIS] to determine the extent of water pollution in a harbor complex inSouth Africa or the range of deforestation in Madagascar)How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, andtechnologies to acquire, process, and report information from aspatial persepectiveHow to use technologies to represent and interpret Earths physicaland human systemsThe physical and human characteristics of placesHow humans perceive and react to natural hazardsDescribe how forces from within Earth (e.g., tectonic processessuch as volcanic activity and earthquakes) influence the character ofplaceThe physical processes that shape the patterns of earths surfaceDescribe the physical processes (e.g., erosion, folding and faulting,volcanism) that produce distictive landforms (e.g., specific types ofmountains, such as buttes and mesas, block mountains or horsts,ridge-and-valley sytstems)The dynamics of the four basic components of Earths physicalsystems; the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphereThe spatial variation in the consequences of physical processesacross Earths surfaceThe interaction of Earths physical systemsExplain the distribution of different types of climate (e.g., marineclimate or continental climate) that is produced by such processesas air-mass circulation, temperature, and moistureExplain why places have specific physical and humancharacteristics in different parts of the world (e.g., the effects ofclimatic and tectonic processes, settlement and migration patterns,site and situation components)Analyze the role of climate (e.g., the effects of temperature,precipitation, wind) in shaping placesDescribe how culture (e.g., toponyms, food preferences, genderroles, resource use, belief systems, modes of transportation andcommunication) affects the characteristics of placeThe characteristics, distribution, and complexity of earths culturalmosaicsGeography 2011 27