World Geography

Welcome to World Geography!

Welcome to Albert's World Geography course!
This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's World Geography course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Subject Organization

World Geography is organized eight content themes and further broken down into topics within those themes. The first seven themes cover human geography, while the eighth covers physical geography.

Themes

  • Thinking Like a Geographer
  • Population and Migration
  • Cultural Geography
  • Political Geography
  • Industrialization and Development
  • Agriculture and Rural Land Use
  • Cities and Urban Land Use
  • Physical Geography

Topics

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here are some topics within Theme 1 - Thinking like a Geographer:
  • Introduction to Geography
  • Reading and Making Maps
  • Gathering and Interpreting Data

Assessments

In addition to our practice guide, World Geography includes topic quizzes that include questions unique from those on our practice guide. Topic quizzes provide additional content and skills development of the topics covered in our practice guide

Using Standards and Tags to Find Questions

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter.
This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.
This course also includes Albert’s own Social Studies Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format of Albert WG.1.A.1 for content standards and Albert WG Skill 1.A.1 for skills standards.
In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Tags

Albert’s World Geography course includes three types of tags, content, skills, and regional. The content and skills tags are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as content tag cultural-diffusion or skills tag map-analysis. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level. Tags are all one to three words long, connected by a dash.
Regional tags provide information about where any real world examples used in the questions come from. Albert is committed to provided balanced coverage of different regions around the world in our geography course.

Question Types

World Geography uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.
  • Multiple Choice
  • Multiple Select
  • Two-Way Tables
  • Fill-in-the-blank

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