Examinations are essay in format. Meets requirements for honors diploma. The study includes current developments around the world which affect physical and cultural settings. Physical settings studied will include resources, climate, and environmental conditions. Cultural settings include population patterns, political structures, life styles, economics, customs, and past events that affect environments.
Major emphasis is given to learning the locations of countries throughout the world.
This course explores not only the location and nature of the earth's physical characteristics, but also the impact these physical aspects have on human life and culture. The first semester examines the nature and purpose of geography, the Earth's physical setting, and the Earth's cultural setting. Then, the course begins a regional study of the physical and cultural geography around the world beginning with the United States, Canada, and Middle America. Second semester, the course examines the regions of South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East, Africa south of the Sahara, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Events throughout the world suggest that our survival depends upon the ability to handle the complexities of the population growth, scarce resource allocation, organized aggression and land redistribution.