(1) The benchmark for social studies content standard 3 for a student upon graduation is the ability to:

(a) interpret, use, and synthesize information from various representations of the earth (e.g., maps, globes, satellite images, geographic information systems, three-dimensional models) ;

(b) differentiate and analyze the relationships among various regional and global patterns of geographic phenomena, (e.g., land forms, soils, climate, vegetation, natural resources, population) ;

(c) assess the major impacts of human modifications on the environment (e.g., global warming, deforestation, erosion, pollution) ;

(d) analyze how human settlement patterns create cooperation and conflict which influence the division and control of the earth (e.g., treaties, economics, exploration, borders, religion, exploitation, water rights) ;

(e) select and apply appropriate geographic resources to analyze the interaction of physical and human systems (e.g., cultural patterns, demographics, unequal global distribution of resources) and their impact on environmental and societal changes;

(f) analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major physical changes in various parts of the world have had or might have on the environments (e.g., land use, population, resources) ; and

(g) describe and compare how people create places that reflect culture, human needs, government policy, and current values and ideas as they design and build (e.g., buildings, neighborhoods, parks, industrial and agricultural centers, farms and ranches) .