Standards for 4. The Dust Bowl in the 1930s

Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Explain how culture influences the way people modify and adapt to their environments.

Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

Describe how environmental and cultural characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions.

Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.

Explain how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources.

Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

Explain probable causes and effects of events and developments.

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.

Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.