Geography · Grade 5

Skills

• Plans a route on a real map and follows it on the ground.
• Uses a compass with a map to take and walk a bearing.
• Reads a public-transport map and plans a journey with a change.
• Knows what a satellite navigation app is actually doing, and its failure modes.
• Explains why climate differs with latitude, altitude and distance from the sea.
• Knows the main biomes and what lives in each: rainforest, savanna, desert, temperate forest, taiga, tundra, grassland.
• Explains what causes a volcano, an earthquake and a tsunami, and where they cluster.
• Understands time zones, and why it is a different time on the other side of the world.
• Names and locates 50+ countries and their capitals, including several in every continent.
• Recognises the flags of 20+ countries.
• Explains why people migrate, with economic, environmental and conflict reasons.
• Traces a familiar product from raw material to shop shelf, across countries.
• Knows what a currency is, that exchange rates exist, and names a few major currencies.
• Knows the rough population of their own country and of the world, to the right order of magnitude.
• Explains the greenhouse effect simply and correctly.
• Discusses a local environmental issue with evidence rather than slogans.
• Understands a trade-off: that an environmental choice can cost money, time or jobs.