Demonstrate understanding of how natural processes shape an environment
This standard asks you to show that you understand how natural processes (like earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, weather, and coastal waves) create features and shape the land and people in a particular area. You need to describe these processes, explain what happens as a result, and discuss how they affect people living there—using real examples and proper geography terms.
You identify some natural features and describe a natural process as a sequence of events, link it to impacts on people, include case study information, and use some geographic terms.
You identify multiple natural features and explain how natural processes create those features, connect processes to impacts on people, provide detailed case study information, and use a range of geographic terms accurately.
You identify multiple natural features and explain how processes create them, link processes to impacts on people, discuss future implications of natural processes, include varied case study evidence, and use geographic terminology precisely.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.