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Finding Your Way Around the World

Build the practical map skills that make every later place easier to remember. Topics: The Globe and Geographic Coordinates, Scale, Relief, and Map Choices.

Why Places Have Different Climates

Connect the Sun, winds, oceans, and mountains to recognizable weather and climate patterns. Topics: Seasons, Weather, and Air Movement, Reading Climate in the Landscape.

How Landscapes Form

Learn to explain the mountains, rivers, coasts, and ice that appear throughout the atlas. Topics: Plates, Volcanoes, and Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, and Coasts, Glaciers, Deserts, and Hazards.

Living Landscapes and Environmental Change

Connect climate, soils, life, and people in real places. Topics: Forests, Grasslands, Tundra, and Reefs, Environmental Questions With a Location.

Journeys Through the World’s Regions

Connect memorable places to the landscapes and ways of life around them. Topics: The Americas: Mountains, Basins, and Cities, Europe and Northern Eurasia, Africa: Sahara, Sahel, Forests, Highlands, and Coasts, Asia: Deserts, Monsoons, Highlands, and Archipelagos, Oceania and the Polar Regions.

Countries, Capitals, and Flags

Political map knowledge by region: country locations, capitals, national flags, and major cities. Topics: North America and the Caribbean, South America, Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia, West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, Central and South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania.

States, Provinces, and Territories

Subnational maps, administrative centers, and relationships among political territories. Topics: U.S. States and Capitals, U.S. Territories, Districts, and State Flags, Canadian Provinces and Territories, Australian States and Territories, Asian Administrative Divisions, European Regions and Constituent Countries, Latin American and African Divisions, Borders and Political Relationships, Capital Roles and Changing Names, Flag Patterns and Symbols.

World Land and Water Features

Named physical features, their locations, and the geographic connections that identify them. Topics: Rivers and Drainage Networks, Lakes and Inland Waters, Oceans, Seas, and Straits, Mountains, Peaks, and Passes, Deserts, Plains, and Basins, Islands and Coastal Landforms, Polar Regions and Ice, Geographic Extremes and Comparisons.

Culture, Nature, and Landmarks

Place-linked knowledge about people, heritage, habitats, economies, transport, and historical change. Topics: Peoples, Languages, and Religions, Landmarks and Heritage Sites, Wildlife and Protected Places, Crops, Resources, and Industry, Routes and Transport Hubs, Historic Places and Routes, Organizations and Current Events.

Geographic Identification and Clues

Combining maps, images, measurements, and verbal clues to identify places accurately. Topics: Place Clues and Answer Precision, Visual Location Clues, Earth’s Dimensions.