Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Political boundaries created by human and physical systems.
- The effect of cooperation among countries in controlling territories.
- The effects of territorial conflicts over borders, resources, land use, and ethnic and nationalistic identity.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Evaluate the spatial influence of political, military, cultural forces on the landscape and among people.
- Identify various ways boundaries are identified.
- Evaluate the reasons for territorial conflicts.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Political, military, cultural and economic forces contribute to cooperation and conflict among people.
Vocabulary
- conflict
- cooperation
- economic forces
- human and physical systems
