Interdependence Between Rural, Suburban, and Urban Areas

SS.4.9West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Document the effects of and explain how people adapted to geographic factors (e.g., climate, mountains, bodies of water, etc.) on the following: • transportation routes; • settlement patterns and population density; • culture (e.g., jobs, food, clothing, shelter, religion, government, etc.); and • interactions with others (locally and nationally)

SS.4.10West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Compare and contrast the physical, economic and political changes to America caused by geographic conditions and human intervention (e.g., bridges, canals, state boundaries, transportation, etc.).