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How to Learn Geography

Do you have a hard time remembering the names of all 50 states? Just commit these silly poemlets to memory, and improve your understanding of U.S. geography.

Now, let’s string them together:
If Miss Issippi wore Miss Souri’s New Jersey, what would Dela ware? Idaho, Alaska!

You can learn cities the same way. Try these.

• Where did Chica-go? She went to see Beverly!
  
• Where did Port-land? On his Sacramen-to!
  
• What did Poughkep-sie? She saw a Buffalo!
  
• Where did Niagra Fall? In the Kalama-zoo!
  
• What did Colum-bus? A big and heavy Boulder!

Do you know any poemlets that help you memorize state, city or country names? If you do, send them into the How-To Cowboy and he’ll publish them in a future column. Not a bad deal, right?

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Word Attraction

Geography
Geo is the Greek word for world and shows up in all kinds of words from cars (the Geo) to the sciences (like geology).

Graphy is another Greek word meaning drawing, writing or recording.

Why geography rather than geology (which means the science of the world)? We bet it’s because, like these names you’re learning to remember, world mapping was so complicated that it had to be written down.

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