Need to know where Bosnia is? What makes a monarchy different from a dictatorship? Why there are two North Poles marked on the globe? How to read lattitude and longitude? Why people choose to make their homes where they do? How much rain falls in the Sahara? How to tell a hurricane from a typhoon?

Everything You Need to Know About Geography Homework provides fourth-to-sixth-grade students and their parents with the information they need to complete Geography assignments. With the help of Dial-A-Teacher, which has operated a telephone help line since 1979, the authors have compiled this Geography reference guide with easy-to-understand answers to students' most frequently asked question. No other source offers such a full range of information directly related to the fourth through sixth grade Geography curriculum.

Part 1 The Meaning of Geography
Part 2 Representing the Earth: Globes, Projections, and Maps
Part 3 Land, Water, and Air: The Physical World
Part 4 Plants and Animals
Part 5 People on Land and Water

- Scholastic Homework Reference Series
- In collaboration with UFT DIAL-A-TEACHER
- A Desk Reference for Students and Parents
- Fourth to Sixth Grades