Seventh Grade South Dakota Social Studies Standards

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Geography

• Select appropriate resources, data services, and geographic tools to interpret information.

• Apply location, direction, size, and/or shape to maps.

• Identify characteristics of various locations, places, and regions.

• Identify population distribution, growth rates, and characteristics of human populations.

• Identify natural environmental changes that impact regions and settlement patterns.

• Identify how humans impact and are affected by the natural environment.

• Describe the impact of the natural environment on settlement patterns.

• Identify how humans migrate.

Civics

• Describe how government impacts the characteristics of a place.

• Identify historical events that impacted individual governments.

• Describe how citizens impact social and political issues.

Economics

• Explain how the availability of resources provide for challenges or human activity.

• Describe how economic activity affects standard of living.

• Describe the role of trade barriers and agreements in the global economy.

• Describe how technology affects the economic development of places and regions.

• Describe the relationship between government and economic systems in different countries.

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