Geography


Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.

Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
______ 1.  Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
______ 2.  Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.
______ 3.  Use a world globe or map to locate the continents, the oceans, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres. Learn how longitude and latitude lines are used to locate a site.

Academics Pin
Earn the Geography belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
______  1.  Make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary place. Include five different landforms, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas, rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and plains.
______  2.  List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon in your town.
______  3.  Find the company's location on the wrapper or label of 10 products used in your home, such as food, clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a map or world atlas to find each location.
______  4.  On a map, trace the routes of some famous explorers. Show the map to your den or family.
______  5.  On a United States or world map, mark where your family members or ancestors were born.
______  6.  Keep a map record of the travels of your favortie professional sports team for one month.
______  7.  Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) in which geography plays an important part.
______  8.  Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
______  9.  Choose a country in the world and make a travel poster for it.
______ 10.  Play a geography-based board game or computer game. Tell an adult some facts you learned about a place that was part of the game.
______ 11.  Draw or make a map of your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges, state parks and cities. Include a key or legend of map symbols.
 
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