Learning Targets

Seventh Grade Geography 

Students’ third nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following: 

Economics

7.2.spi.1. recognize basic economic concepts (i.e. imports, exports, barter system, tariffs, closed and emerging markets, supply and demand, inflation, recession, depression).

7.2.spi.2. define renewable and nonrenewable resources.

7.2.spi.4. interpret economic issues as expressed with maps, tables, diagrams, and charts.

Tennessee Unit

7.2.spi5. select the major resources, industrial, and agricultural products for the three grand divisions from a map of Tennessee.

7.3.spi.3.identify the major river systems of Tennessee.

7.3.spi.5. select the natural resources found in the 3 grand divisions of Tennessee (coal, copper, timber, plants, animals.)

7.3.spi.7. compare the five largest cities of Tennessee using a bar graph.

7.3.spi.12. identify the six physical regions of Tennessee (i.e. Unaka Mountains, Valley and Ridge, Cumberland Plateau, Highland Rim, Central Basin, Gulf Coastal Plain).

7.4.spi.3. recognize how the boundaries of Congressional districts change in the state of Tennessee. (i.e. statutory requirements, population shifts, political power shifts).

World Geography

7.3.spi.9. identify the location of Earth's major landforms and bodies of water (i.e., Rockies, Andes, Himalayas, Alps, Urals, Sahara desert, Nile River Valley, Great Plains, Mississippi River, Amazon River, Thames River, Seine River, Rhine River, Danube River, Tigris River, Eurphrates River, Ganges River, Volga River, Yellow River).

Effects of Humans on the Environment

7.3.spi.8. define demographic concepts (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, growth rate, family size, and infant mortality).

7.3.spi.13. recognize the definitions of modifications on the physical environment (i.e. global warming, deforestation, desert, urbanization).

7.3.spi.18. analyze the environmental consequences of humans changing their physical environment (i.e., air and water pollution, mining, deforestation, global warming).

Students’ second nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:
 

Human & Cultural Geography:

• Student will be able to analyze the differences and similarities between their culture and another culture.
• Students will be able to discuss the differences in various customs.
• Students will examine various dialects from around the world.
• Students will investigate political systems from various countries (communism, democracy, socialism, etc.)
• Students will compare and contrast various economic systems.

• World Religions:
  • Students will be able to compare and contrast the five major world religions.
  • Students will investigate the major tenants of each religion.
  • Students will be able to distinguish between religious symbols, holidays, and customs.
  • Students will experience 3 major world religions by attending a world religions filed trip.

Marzano Vocabulary for 2^nd Nine Weeks:

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, culture, customs, religion, language, political system, economic system.

Students’ first nine weeks grade will be based on evidence they can do the following:

• Intro to Geography:
  • Locate the seven continents and four oceans.
  •  Define erosion, volcano, earthquake, wind and water current, plate tectonics and weathering
  •  Compare and contrast the physical geography vocabulary words listed below.
     
• Maps and Mapping:
  • Locate specific lines of latitude and longitude (Prime Meridian, International Date Line, Equator, North and South Poles, Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, Arctic and Antarctic Circle)
  • Be able to plot coordinates using latitude and longitude.
  • Identify basic elements of mapping (legend, compass, directions, scale, distance)
  • Distinguish between types of maps (political, physical, climatic, land-use resource, contour, elevation, topographical)
     
• Human & Environmental Geography:
  • Recognize and interpret the consequences of human interaction on the natural environment. (i.e. global warming, deforestation, air and water pollution, desertification, mining)
  • Predict the consequences on the environment due to population changes.
  • Recognize the causes and consequences of urbanization (industrial development, education, health care, cultural opportunities, poverty, overcrowding, disease, pollution and crime)

Vocabulary for 1^st Nine Weeks:

deforestation, drought, estuary, famine, fjord, global warming, phenomenon,  lagoon, renewable resource, non-renewable resource, conservation, oppression, resource allocation, scarcity, thematic, topography