Alignment to Standards for NM
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GEO-1)2.A.1 | Understand maps and globes as representations of places and phenomena. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.A.1. | Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and regions. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.A.2 | Identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance in selected countries, continents, and oceans. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.D.1 | Describe the physical processes that affect the Earthês features |
| 3 | GEO-3)2.A1 | Identify and use the mapping tools of scale, compass rose, grid, symbols, and mental mapping to locate and draw places on maps and globes. |
| 3 | GEO-3)2.D.2 | Describe how physical processes shape features on the Earthês surface. |
| 3 | SC-3)2.3.2.1. | Know that Earthês features are constantly changed by a combination of slow and rapid processes that include the action of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain building, biological changes, erosion, and weathering. |
| 4 | GEO-4)2.D.2 | four provinces (plains, mountains, plateau, and basin and range) that make up New Mexicoês land surface (geographic conditions). |
