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Natural Resources and Regional Economies
Connect specific natural resources (timber, fertile soil, minerals, oil) to the economic industries of US regions.
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Human-Environment Interaction and American Regions
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Goal
Explain how humans adapt to, modify, and depend on their physical environments across the regions of the United States.
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Learning standards covered
SS.4.9West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesDocument 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 agesCompare 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.).