GEOGRAPHY: Environment and Society

15. How physical systems affect human systems

K-4 Targets

1. How variations within the physical environment produce spatial patterns that affect human adaptation
   
   
2. The ways in which the physical environment provides opportunities for people
   
   
3. The ways in which the physical environment constrains human activities
   
   

5-8 Targets

1. Human responses to variations in physical systems
   
   
2. How the characteristics of different physical environments provide opportunities for or place constraints on human activities
   
   
3. How natural hazards affect human activities
   
   

9-12 Targets

1. How changes in the physical environment can diminish its capacity to support human activity
   
   
2. Strategies to respond to constraints placed on human systems by the physical environment
   
   
3. How humans perceive and react to natural hazards