Assessment Question II

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9-12 -- Alternative Geography Assessment ItemsBigMart Comes To Town?BIGMART is a chain of very large department stores. The owners of BIGMART have asked you, a geographer, for advice. They want to know if Whilkton, Illinois will eventually be large enough to support a BIGMART store. Currently, there aren’t enough people living in Whilkton and the surrounding area to make the investment in building a BIGMART store worth while. But, if the population of Whilkton is likely to grow by as much as 10 percent in the next 5 to 10 years, then the owner will go ahead with plans to build a store.Your task is to obtain enough geographical information about Whilkton to predict whether the population of Whilkton is going to increase by 10 percent in the next 5 to 10 years. In the space below, identify the geographical information you would need to obtain in order to formulate a reasonable prediction.

I could modify this for my students easily. Since we live in a small town, we could do some research through the local chamber of commerce and figure it out. The adaptation would be a breeze and this would be a great starting question for figuring out why people live where they live in Kentucky.