Ideas in this flowchart

• Triangles can measure features, dimensions, distances, heights, and locations.
• Their power comes from consistent relationships among side lengths and angles.
• They can be used even when the triangles cannot be directly seen in nature.
• Applications of triangle measurement
• Measuring landscape features
• Measuring organism dimensions
• Calculating distances between geographic points
• Measuring heights
• Locating positions
• Measuring tree height
• Locating radio-collared animals by triangulation