(1) The benchmark for social studies content standard 3 for a student at the end of grade 4 is the ability to:

(a) identify and use various representations of the earth (e.g., maps, globes, photographs, latitude and longitude, scale) ;

(b) locate on a map or globe physical features (e.g., continents, oceans, mountain ranges, land forms) , natural features (e.g., flora, fauna) , and human features (e.g., cities, states, national borders) ;

(c) describe and illustrate ways in which people interact with their physical environment (e.g., land use, location of communities, methods of construction, design of shelters) ;

(d) describe how human movement and settlement patterns reflect the wants and needs of diverse cultures;

(e) use appropriate geographic resources (e.g., atlases, databases, charts, grid systems, technology, graphs, maps) to gather information about local communities, reservations, Montana, the United States, and the world;

(f) identify and distinguish between physical system changes (e.g., seasons, climate, weather, water cycle, natural disasters) and describe the social and economic effects of these changes; and

(g) describe and compare the ways in which people in different regions of the world interact with their physical environments.