(7) Geography. The student understands the growth, distribution, movement, and characteristics of world population. The student is expected to:
(A) construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends;
(B) explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration;
(C) describe trends in world population growth and distribution; and
(D) examine benefits and challenges of globalization, including connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture.
