The recently updated Geography for Life: National Geography Standards, Second Edition document describes what every geographically informed person should know and be able to do. Citizens with a command of geographic tools and perspectives learn how to make important connections between the living and non-living world, between human cultures and natural resource use, and between human political organization of space and food security, to give just a few examples. Students who are learning about spatial patterns of human settlement in history, or the relationship between vegetation and climate zone in an environmental science class are engaging with geography concepts, perspectives and skills, often without even realizing it.