Can you name all 50 states?

Can you name the continents?

If you are here you have the world at your fingertips. No excuses not to know!

So folks it is Geography Awareness Week. Be aware

Read this and change it. Teach yourself, your kids...anyone you can.

Geography A Growing Biz, Can You Find Iraq On A Map?

Debra Dale Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780

CHICAGO (WBBM) - This is Geography Awareness Week. It's a National Geographic-led campaign backed by a coalition of national business and non-profit organizations to expand geographic learning in school, at home, and in communities.

A National Geographic-Roper survey shows only 19 percent of U.S. children own a world map, half can't find New York on a map, and 63 percent can't find Iraq even though our troops have been there since 2003.

The goal of the campaign is to make geography education a priority. Their message is that young people need to know geography in order to understand today's world and succeed in tomorrow's. But they're not getting enough of it, in or out of school.

Shearer says the rise of www.mapquest.com and global positioning systems (GPS) has led to the creation of about 70,000 jobs in the U.S. every year in the field of geo-spacial technologies

There is a bill pending in Congress, the Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act, which aims to devote more funding to geography education. The bill appears to be stalled pending modification of the No Child Left Behind Act.

On the Net: www.mywonderfulworld.org

It would be easier if those darned revolutionaries would stop taking over countries and renaming them!!!
I am geographically challenged. And, it's a lot like nomenclatures in chemistry. Oh, please pass the NaCl, dear!!! How often do I REALLY need to have all that accumulated knowledge? Maybe when playing a trivia game. If I need to know, then I look it up. Otherwise, the world has to accept me as having general knowledge as pertains to geography!!!

Here's a good quiz.

Test yourself

http://www.nasm.si.edu/geographyfromspace/begin.cfm?year=2008