Geography · Grade 3

Skills

• Uses a scale bar to estimate a real distance on a map.
• Uses the eight compass points, including the intercardinals.
• Names the major landform types: mountain, valley, plain, plateau, desert, forest, coast, delta.
• Locates the Equator, the two Tropics, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, and the Prime Meridian.
• Knows what a country, a capital and a border are.
• Locates their own country's neighbours and names their capitals.
• Knows where their household's water comes from and where its waste goes.
• Knows where their electricity comes from.