Geography · Grade 4

Skills

• Reads contour lines well enough to tell a hill from a valley and steep from gentle.
• Finds a place by latitude and longitude, and explains what the Equator and the poles are.
• Names the world's major climate zones and roughly where they are.
• Names several of the longest rivers, highest mountains and largest deserts, and locates them.
• Explains how a river works from source to mouth, and what it does to the land on the way.
• Names and locates roughly 30 countries across all the continents, with their capitals.
• Knows the difference between a city, a town and a village, and between urban and rural life.
• Knows several major world languages and roughly where each is spoken.
• Explains deforestation, pollution and their consequences in their own words.
• Names practical things a household can do to use less energy and water.