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World Geography

Explore Earth's physical and human systems through primary sources, maps, and real-world case studies. Covers physical geography, cultural regions, economic patterns, and geopolitics — aligned to Texas TEKS §113.19.

14 Units

30-45 minutes per unit

What You Will Learn

Primary Source Maps & Data

Work with real geographic data, satellite imagery, and historical maps — not just textbook summaries.

Cultural Geography

Understand how geography shapes culture, migration, conflict, and economic development across world regions.

TEKS Aligned

Covers Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Grade 7 Social Studies (§113.19).

All Units

Thinking Like a Geographer

Master the five themes of geography, learn why every flat map lies, and discover the tools geographers use to decode the world.

•Apply the five themes of geography to analyze any place on Earth
•Explain how different map projections distort reality in different ways
•Use latitude and longitude to pinpoint locations on the globe

Earth's Physical Systems

Discover how plate tectonics build mountains and trigger earthquakes, how water cycles across the planet, and why natural hazards hit some places harder than others.

•Explain how plate tectonics shapes Earth's surface over time
•Distinguish between weather and climate and explain why the difference matters
•Analyze how natural hazards are distributed geographically and why some populations are more vulnerable

Climate and Biomes: Why Places Are Different

Explore why the Sahara is scorching while Siberia freezes, how climate zones shape where people live, and what a warming world means for geography.

•Classify Earth's major climate zones and explain the factors that create them
•Describe the characteristics of major biomes and how they support different forms of human life
•Analyze how climate change is redrawing the geographic map of human settlement

Population and Migration: Why People Move

Examine why some places are packed and others empty, what drives people to leave home, and how the great human migration to cities is reshaping the planet.

•Explain why population is unevenly distributed across Earth's surface
•Analyze push and pull factors that drive both voluntary and forced migration
•Evaluate the causes and consequences of rapid urbanization worldwide

Culture: How Geography Shapes Who We Are

Discover how geography shapes languages, religions, food, and traditions — and how cultural diffusion means no culture has ever developed in isolation.

•Distinguish between material and non-material culture and give examples of each
•Explain how geographic features influence the distribution of languages and religions
•Analyze how cultural diffusion spreads ideas, technologies, and practices across the globe

North America: Land of Contrasts

Explore a continent of vast differences — from Arctic tundra to tropical islands, from economic superpowers to developing nations, all bound by trade and history.

•Analyze North America's diverse physical geography and its impact on settlement patterns
•Explain why the United States and Canada became economic powerhouses
•Evaluate NAFTA/USMCA and its impact on regional integration
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South America: Diversity and Development

Explore a continent of superlatives — the world's largest rainforest, highest mountain range outside Asia, most unequal wealth distribution — and the colonial legacy that shaped all of it.

•Analyze how South America's geography (rainforests, mountains, rivers) shaped settlement and development
•Explain the resource curse and why abundant natural resources do not guarantee prosperity
•Evaluate the environmental and social costs of resource extraction in the Amazon
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Europe: Small Continent, Giant Impact

Europe is small but punches far above its weight — its geography created empires, its wars reshaped the world, and its integration experiment is reshaping global politics.

•Analyze Europe's physical geography and how it enabled (or prevented) political unity
•Explain how European colonialism transformed the world
•Evaluate the European Union as an experiment in regional integration
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Africa: The Continent the World Misunderstands

Africa is vast, diverse, and dynamic — not a single country or a single story. Understand its geography, its colonial past, and its future potential.

•Challenge stereotypes: Africa is 54 countries, not one country
•Analyze how colonial borders were drawn in Europe, not in Africa, and the consequences
•Evaluate the resource curse in African context
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The Middle East and North Africa: Crossroads

A region of ancient civilizations, religious significance, and modern geopolitical conflict — where geography determines power and water is worth more than oil.

•Understand Middle Eastern geography beyond oil and deserts
•Analyze how ancient rivers enabled civilizations
•Evaluate water scarcity as a geopolitical weapon and existential threat
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South Asia: One-Quarter of Humanity

A region of superlatives: most populous democracy, highest mountains, most intense monsoons, and billion-person problems that shape global future.

•Understand how monsoons shape South Asian climate, agriculture, and culture
•Analyze the geography of the Partition and its ongoing consequences
•Evaluate India as a democratic experiment at unprecedented scale
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East Asia: Ancient and Modern

A region that is home to the world's oldest continuous civilization, the world's most powerful manufacturing hub, and the most intense geopolitical rivalry.

•Analyze how geography shaped China's historical dominance and current rise
•Understand Japan's transformation from isolated island to industrial powerhouse
•Evaluate the Korean Peninsula's division and its consequences for both nations
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Southeast Asia and Oceania: Connected by Water

A region of archipelagos, ancient trade routes, economic dynamism, and existential vulnerability to sea-level rise.

•Understand how ocean geography shaped Southeast Asia's development and trade
•Analyze ASEAN as a regional cooperation framework
•Evaluate climate change threats to island nations
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Global Challenges: Geography in the 21st Century

Geography does not determine the future, but it sets the stage. Climate change, globalization, resource conflict, and technology are reshaping the map.

•Analyze how climate change will create winners and losers geographically
•Evaluate globalization as both opportunity and vulnerability
•Understand resource conflict as a geographic phenomenon
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Grade 7 World Geography. Designed for Texas homeschool families. TEKS §113.19 aligned.