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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 14 of 14

World Regions

Place, region and the environment

What your child practices

Location, place, region, movement and human-environment interaction, and how they shape the way people live in different parts of the world.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 7.2 · how location, place, region, movement and the environment shape life in an area

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The five themes of geography: location, place, region, movement and human-environment interaction.
  2. Place has physical traits (climate, landforms) and cultural traits (language, religion).
  3. Movement is how people, goods and ideas spread. Population density is how many people live in an area.

Example: Is the language people speak a physical or a cultural characteristic of a place? Physical traits come from nature, like climate. Language comes from people, so it is cultural. Answer: cultural

World Regions in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 14 of 14 in 7th grade Social Studies, after World Maps & Globes.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Desertification is…

    • Land turning into desert, often from drought and overuse
    • A desert turning into a forest
    • A kind of camel
    • Sand at the beach

  2. Question 2

    A country with 100 people per square mile is more densely populated than one with…

    • 200 people per square mile
    • 1000 people per square mile
    • 500 people per square mile
    • 10 people per square mile

  3. Question 3

    Tundra is a region that is…

    • Covered in rainforest
    • Cold, treeless and frozen under the surface
    • A big lake
    • Hot and sandy

  4. Question 4

    Why do people migrate (move) to other countries?

    • For jobs, safety, family or a better life
    • They never do
    • Because maps tell them to
    • Only for vacations

  5. Question 5

    What is sustainability?

    • Using resources so there is enough for the future
    • Only using oil
    • Never using resources
    • Using everything up now

  6. Question 6

    The spread of a religion along trade routes is an example of the theme of…

    • movement
    • region
    • location
    • place

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