The region was not uplifted like the Ozark Highlands, nor glaciated like the Northern Glaciated Plains. Yet the Osage Prairies still forms a distinctive region of our state, a region distinguishable on maps. Maps are the basic tool of the geographer. If money, or currency, is the medium we use to exchange goods, then maps are indeed the currency whereby geographers exchange information. A love of maps has drawn many persons to the study of geography.
Many people like to look at, to study maps.
Thus, using maps is not the first of the eighteen new geography standards by accident. By using maps, students can gain a good understanding of the region of Missouri known as the Osage Prairies. This activity relates map reading with the concept of regions. Outline a region on a series of thematic maps. List characteristics of a region.