The world s distribution of people is uneven and ever-changing. Human needs create patterns of activity and movement locally and worldwide. These patterns include human migrations, information flows, economic activities, settlement patterns, and forces of cooperation and conflict. Society A student should understand and be able to evaluate how humans and physical environments interact. Basic resources such as land, water, and air are components of the physical systems essential to human survival.
Resource use varies from culture to culture.
Many of the important issues facing societies involve the consequences of interactions between human and physical systems. Complex interrelationships between societies and their physical environments influence conditions locally, regionally, and globally. A student should be able to use geography to understand the world by interpreting the past, knowing the present, and preparing for the future. Viewing history from a geographic perspective leads to greater awareness and depth of understanding of cultural and physical events. Solutions to the world s problems require the use of geographic knowledge for making informed choices and predicting consequences.