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Praxis Geography (5921)

Provider
ETS
Format
Computer-delivered selected-response examination; select one or more answers. Calculator use is not permitted. At-home and test-center delivery have identical content and format.
Exam questions
Total questions: 120.
Time limit
2 hours
Exam fee
$130.00 base examination price; any service fees or surcharges are separate.
Examination outline
  • Geography Literacy and Tools (20%)
    • Map types and their uses
    • Distance, direction, and scale
    • Mental maps and spatial organization
    • Absolute and relative location
    • Spatial distribution and density
    • Formal, functional, and perceptual or vernacular regions
    • Geographic models
    • Geographic concepts applied to current events
    • Geographic tools for past, present, and future
    • Statistical information and geographic relationships
  • Physical Geography (20%)
    • Natural factors influencing weather
    • Natural factors influencing climate
    • Weather and climate terminology
    • Climographs
    • Biomes and ecosystems
    • Earth's primary spheres
    • Geomorphic processes
    • Tectonic processes and the physical environment
    • Landforms and United States ecoregions
    • Hydrologic cycle
  • Human Geography (25%)
    • Spatial patterns and characteristics of human populations
    • Demographic indicators
    • Population pyramids at four scales
    • Internal and international migration
    • Urban and rural settlements
    • Agricultural development and diffusion
    • Technology and agricultural production
    • Industrialization of agriculture
    • Concepts of nations and states
    • Identifying and locating nations and states
    • Conflict, cooperation, development, and globalization
  • Regional Geography (15%)
    • Classifying regions by human and physical characteristics
    • Identifying major world regions
    • Human and physical characteristics of major world regions
    • Major regions of the United States
    • Cultural and experiential perceptions of regions
  • Environment and Society (20%)
    • Human modification of the physical environment
    • Human and physical systems interactions
    • Environmental limits, determinism, and possibilism
    • Overcoming physical environmental limitations
    • Physical environmental features and human settlement
    • Settlement near oceans and rivers and natural hazards
    • Tectonic processes and human settlement
    • Industrial concentration and long-term environmental impacts
    • Chemicals and the environment
    • Groundwater pollution and depletion
    • Global warming and climate change debates
    • Climate change effects on settlements and ecosystems
    • Renewable and nonrenewable resources
    • Alternative energy sources
    • Population, living standards, and Earth's resources
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