Seventh Grade Social Studies T-CAP Skills

Seventh Grade

M-Identify, describe, and be able to use the basic elements of maps and mapping.
A-Identify and use the basic elements of maps and mapping.
M-Identify the location of physical and human attributes on maps and globes at local, regional, and global scales
A-Locate on map specific lines of longitude and latitude. (i.e., Prime Meridian, International Date Line, Equator, North and South Poles, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and Arctic Antarctic Circles).
A-Locate the earth’s major physical characteristics (i.e., 7 continents and 4 oceans).
A-Distinguish between types of maps. (i.e., political, physical, climatic, land-use resource, contour, elevation, and topographic.)
Introduction To Maps
M-Demonstrate an understanding of various types of maps including thematic and topographic maps.
A-Interpret a map indicating scale, distance, and direction
A-Read and interpret a time zone map.
M-Discuss applications of current geographic techniques in mapping such as GIS and GPS.
M-Identify the location of the earth’s major physical characteristics such as continents, landforms, bodies of water, climate regions, vegetation, and natural resources.
A-Identify the major river systems of Tennessee.
A-Select the natural resources found in the 3 grand divisions of Tennessee (coal, copper, timber, plants, and animals.)
A-Identify the location of the 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, and Yellow River).
A-Identify the six physical regions of Tennessee (i.e., Unaka Mountains, Valley and Ridge, Cumberland Plateau, Highland Rim, Central Basin, and Gulf Coastal Plain).
M-Identify the location and size of major human features such as cities, political units, and countries.
A-Distinguish the differences among rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Human Geography
M-Explain why physical, biological, and human processes leave discernable patterns on the earth’s surface locally, regionally, and globally.
M-Identify the spatial distribution of major ecosystems such as tropical rainforest, desert, and grassland.
A-Identify the characteristics that define a region geographically.
M-Identify concepts and geographic tools used to define and describe spatial organization such as absolute and relative location, distance, direction, scale, movement, and region.
M-Explain patterns of spatial organization including why some areas are more densely settled than others and the differences between rural, urban, and suburban patterns.
A-Define demographic concepts. (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, and growth rate).
Project Population Growth
A-Compare the five largest cities of Tennessee using a bar graph.
M-Describe factors that affect spatial organization of the earth’s surface such as transportation, migration, and communication technology.
M-Identify which features on the earth’s surface are physical and which are human.
A-Recognize specific physical processes that operate on the earth’s surface (i.e., erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind and water currents, plate tectonics, and weathering).
M-Describe how physical, biological, and human characteristics and processes define and shape a place.
M-Describe how human movement and migration influence the character of a place.
M-Appraise the symbiotic relationship between the physical and human environments as they are reflected on the earth’s surface.
M-Identify the criteria used to define a region, including physical traits and formal, functional, and vernacular cultural regions.
M-Describe types of regions at the local, regional, and global level.
M-Describe how cultures influence the characteristics of regions and how human characteristics make specific regions of the world distinctive.
M-Explain factors that contribute to changing regional characteristics and boundaries.
M-Identify types of the earth’s physical processes such as tectonic activity, and changing landforms.
M-Consider the effect of weathering and erosion, the hydrologic cycle and climate change.
M-Analyze physical patterns and ecosystems found locally, regionally, and globally.
M-Examine the consequences of a specific physical process operating on the earth’s surface.
M-Describe how the characteristics of different physical environments affect human activities including ways in which people adapt to living in different physical environments.
M-Describe the impact and interaction of natural hazards and disasters on human settlements and systems.
M-Evaluate the limits and opportunities of physical environments for human activities.
M-Describe effects of human modification on the physical environment including global warming, deforestation, desertification, and urbanization.
M-Explain the ways in which human induced changes in the physical environment in one place can cause changes in other places.
M-Analyze the environmental consequences of humans changing the physical environment.
A-Recognize the definitions of modifications on the physical environment (i.e., global warming, deforestation, desert, and urbanization).
A-Analyze the environmental consequences of humans changing their physical environment (i.e., air and water pollution, mining, deforestation, and global warming).
M-Identify the characteristics of populations at a variety of scales including ethnicity, age distribution, number of males and females, and life expectancy.
A-Interpret a population pyramid.
M-Define demographic concepts including population, population distribution, population density, growth rate, family size, and infant mortality.
A-Define demographic concepts (i.e., population, population distribution, population density, growth rate, family size, and infant mortality).
A-Recognize cultural definitions (i.e., language, religion, customs, political system, and economic system.
A-Locate cultural information on a thematic map (i.e., languages, political systems, economic systems, and religions).
M-Describe the causes and effects of human migration such as “push and pull” factors.
M-Analyze contemporary population issues.
A-Predict the consequences of population changes on the Earth’s physical and cultural environments (I.e., air and water pollution, mining, deforestation, and global).
A-View and discuss a show which shows a diverse global culture.