AP Human Geography: Summer Assignment

Global Geography 1: Africa

Africa is the second largest continent on our planet, and it covers 1/5th of the world’s surface. Your first goal for the Summer Assignment is to understand the impact of geography on the development of Africa over the centuries as well as its ability to modernize. You will specifically focus on the following geographical features of the African continent. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of Africa

Regions/Countries Key Cities External Bodies of Water

There are five (5) regions of Cairo Mediterranean Sea Red Africa. Cape Town Algiers Sea Pick a color for each region Mogadishu Indian Ocean Atlantic Nairobi Create a key on your map. Lagos Ocean Cape of Good Kinshasa Label all the countries. Casablanca Hope Color in each region. Below Tripoli Harare are the regions

North Africa East Africa West Africa Central Africa South Africa EGYPT KENYA SENEGAL NIGERIA ANGOLA SOUTH LIBYA UGANDA GAMBIA GUINEA- CAMERO AFRICA TUNISIA TANZANIA BISSAU GUINEA ON LESOTHO ALGERIA BURUNDI RWANDA SIERRA LEONE GABON BOTSWANA MOROCCO ETHIOPIA ERITREA LIBERIA SAO TOME & THE ZAMBIA W.SAHARA DJIBOUTI SOMALIA COTE D’IVOIRE PRINCIPE EQUATORIAL NAMIBIA SUDAN MADAGASCAR GHANA GUINEA SWAZILAND SOUTH SUDAN SEYCHELLES BURKINA FASO CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE COMOROS TOGO AFRICAN ZIMBABWE MAURITIUS BENIN REPUBLIC MALAWI NIGER REP. OF THE CONGO DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO CHAD CAPE VERDE MALI MAURITANIA Step 2: Label and Color the following on the physical map of Africa:

Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (5) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in Africa. Lake Victoria Atlas Mountains Desert Semi Nile River Congo Drakensberg Mountains desert Steppe River Niger Mt. Kilamanjaro Ethiopian

Savanna Grasslands and River Limpopo Highlands Deserts: Woodland Savanna (put together as one on your map) River Zambezi Sahara Desert Tropical Rainforest River Other: Kalahari Desert Directions: Great Rift Valley Namib Desert

Pick a color for each area. Horn of Africa

Create a key on your map. Suez Canal Congo

Color in each area on map. Basin

Tropic of Capricorn Tropic

of Cancer

S t ep 3 : S u mm a t i o n Q u e s t i o n :

Please write a 1/2 page written summary to the following question:

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for Africa? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? Rubric for Maps: Points Accuracy Completion Neatness

All required entries Not missing any No cross-outs or labeled in correct required entries; erasures noticeable; Exceeds Standard 14-15 place; Summation Summation question use of color; easy to question answered is complete read; Summation completely. question answer typed

Meets Standard 12-14 1-2 entries Missing no more Use of at least 3 incorrect; Question than 2 entries; colors; legible; answered relatively Question answered, Question answered well. but less than but hand written complete

Approaches Standard 10-11 3-5 entries Missing 3-5 entries; Little use of color; incorrect; Question Limited answer to somewhat legible; not answered well question question hand written but not legibly.

Does Not Meet 9 or More than 5 Missing more than Difficult to read; Standard below entries incorrect; 5 entries; question little effort; question question not not answered answer is answered completely illegible PHYSICAL MAP OF AFRICA POLITICAL MAP OF AFRICA Global Geography 2: South America

You will specifically focus on the following geographical features of the South American continent. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of South America

There are five (3) regions of Sao Paulo Caribbean Sea South America. Buenos Aires Caracas Pacific Ocean Pick a color for each region Bogota Atlantic Ocean Lima Create a key on your map. Santiago Cape Horn Rio de Janeiro Label all the countries. La Paz Color in each region. Below Montevideo Asunción are the regions Quito

Caribbean States Pacific States Atlantic States Colombia Ecuador Brazil Venezuela Peru Argentina Guyana Bolivia Uruguay Paraguay Suriname French Chile Falkland Islands* Guiana* Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (5) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in South America. Amazon River Andes Mountains Desert Orinoco River Brazilian Highlands Guiana Pampas (grassland) Tropical Rainforest Parana River- Rio Highlands Deserts:

Mountain (Alpine) de la Plata Lake Atacama Desert Temperate forest Titicaca Lake

Directions: Maracaibo Other:

Pick a color for each area. Patagonia Tierra

Create a key on your map. del Fuego

Color in each area on map. Galapagos Islands The

Llanos

Tropic of Capricorn Tropic

of Cancer

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for South America? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? POLITICAL MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA PHYSICAL MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA Global Geography 3: Asia

Asia is the largest continent on our planet. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of Asia

There are five (5) regions of Africa. Jerusalem Mediterranean Sea Pick a color for each region Mecca Arabian Sea Indian Dubai Ocean Pacific Create a key on your map. Baghdad Ocean Karachi Sea of Japan Label all the countries. Tehran South China Sea Mumbai Yellow Sea Color in each region. Below Shanghai Bay of Bengal Beijing Persian Gulf Red are the regions Hong Kong Sea Seoul Strait of Hormuz Tokyo Gulf of Aden Strait Manila of Malacca East Bangkok China Sea Gulf of Jakarta Tonkin Philippine Kuala Lampur Sea

Middle East Central Asia South Asia East Asia Southeast Asia Israel Pakistan India Mongolia Myanmar Jordan Afghanistan Sri Lanka China Thailand Syria Iran Maldives Japan Laos Lebanon Tajikistan Bangladesh North Korea Cambodia Saudi Arabia Turkmenistan Nepal South Korea Vietnam Yemen Oman Kyrgyzstan Bhutan Taiwan* Indonesia United Arab Emirates Kazakhstan Philippines Brunei East Qatar Uzbekistan Timor Bahrain Malaysia Kuwait Singapore Iraq Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (6) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in Africa. Caspian Sea Himalayas Desert Tigris/Euphrates River Hindu Kush Mountains Yangtze River Western and Eastern Ghats Yellow River Steppe Grassland Zagros Mekong River Indus Tropical Rainforest Urals Coniferous /Temperate forest River Brahmaputra River Ganges River Kunluns Mount Fuji Directions: Pick a color for each area. Other: Sundarbans (wetlands) Deserts: Create a key on your map. Tropic of Cancer Gobi Desert Arabian Color in each area on map. Desert Taklamaklan Desert Thar Desert Kara Kum Desert Iranian Desert

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for Asia? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? POLITICAL MAP OF ASIA A Global Geography 4: Europe

Your fourth goal for the Summer Assignment is to understand the impact of geography on the development of Europe over the centuries as well as its ability to modernize. You will specifically focus on the following geographical features of the European continent. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of Europe

There are five (5) regions of London Mediterranean Sea Africa. Paris Atlantic Ocean Berlin English Channel Pick a color for each region Moscow Black Sea Rome Bay of Biscay Create a key on your map. Madrid Baltic Sea Budapest Adriatic Sea Label all the countries. Kiev Aegean Sea Bucharest North Sea Color in each region. Below St. Petersburg Tyrrhenian Sea are the regions

Western Southern Central Eastern Eurasia United Kingdom Italy Germany Finland Russia Ireland Vatican City Switzerland Estonia Turkey Norway San Marino Czech Republic Latvia Azerbaijan Iceland Malta Liechtenstein Lithuania Georgia Sweden Greece Austria Belarus Armenia Denmark Cyprus Slovakia Ukraine Belgium Bulgaria Hungary Moldova Luxembourg Croatia Slovenia Romania Netherlands Bosnia/Herzegovina Poland France Spain Montenegro Portugal Kosovo Andorra Serbia Monaco Macedonia Albania Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (5) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in Africa. Thames River Alps Alpine Danube River Pyrenees Arctic Tundra Conifer Forest Rhine River Carpathians

Mediterranean Volga River Caucuses Deciduous Forest Elbe River Urals

Directions: Dneiper River Kjolen Mountains

Pick a color for each area. Other: Appenines Dinarics

Create a key on your map. Massif Central Meseta Color in each area on map. Great Hungarian Plain Strait of Gibraltar Central Russian Uplands

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for Europe? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? POLITICAL MAP OF EUROPE A Global Geography 5: North America

North America encompasses Central America and the Caribbean as well. You do not need to know all the Caribbean islands, just the major ones. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of North America

There are five (3) regions of Africa. Pick New York City Atlantic Pacific a color for each region Chicago Caribbean Sea Los Angeles Bering Sea Gulf Create a key on your map. Washington DC of Mexico Houston Label all the countries. Seattle Miami Color in each region. Below Vancouver Toronto are the regions Ottawa Montreal Calgary Mexico City Havana Panama City San Juan Santo Domingo Kingston San Jose (Costa Rica)

North America Caribbean Central America United States Cuba Guatemala Canada Jamaica Honduras Mexico Bahamas El Salvador Lesser Antilles (island Costa Rica region) Nicaragua Haiti Panama Dominican Republic Belize Trinidad and Tobago Puerto Rico* Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (7) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in Africa. Mississippi River Rockies Appalachians Desert Mountains Missouri River Canadian Rockies Arctic Tundra Ohio River Sierra Madres Cascades Grassland Columbia River Sierra Nevadas Tropical Rainforest Mackenzie River Yukon Coniferous forest Deserts: Temperate forest St. Lawrence Rio Grande Great Basin Directions: Nelson River Sonora Pick a color for each area. Colorado Mojave Great Lakes Chihuahua Create a key on your map. Hudson Bay Chesapeake Bay Color in each area on map. Great Salt Lake Lake Nicaragua

Other: Tropic of Cancer Yucatan Peninsula Everglades Grand Canyon Baja Peninsula Copper Canyon Panama Canal

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for North America? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? POLITICAL MAP OF NORTH AMERICA PHYSICAL MAP OF NORTH AMERICA AP Human Geography: Summer Assignment

Global Geography 6: Australia and Oceania

This region is made up of the continent of Australia and the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia You will not need to know all of the islands but you will need to know their groupings. This section is worth 1/6 of the Summer Assignment final grade

Step 1: Label and Color the following political map of Australia and Oceania

Regions/Countries Key Cities External Bodies of Water Sydney There are five (3) regions of Africa. Pick Melbourne Indian Ocean a color for each region Canberra Coral Sea Perth Tasman Sea Create a key on your map. Alice Springs Pacific Ocean Wellington Label all the countries. Darwin Auckland Port Color in each region. Below Moresby Brisbane are the regions Christchurch

Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia

• Australia: • Fed. • Samoa • Papua New Guinea States of • Tuvalu • Fiji Micronesia • Tonga • Solomon Islands • Palau • Vanuatu • Kiribati • New Zealand • Marshall Islands Key Environmental Features Key Features Key Features

There are five (5) key ecological Internal Bodies of Water: Mountains: areas in Africa. Murray River Murrumbidgee Carstenz Pyramid Desert River Southern Alps Puncak Mountains Jaya Australian Alps Grassland Other: Tropical Rainforest Tasmania Deserts: Coniferous /Temperate forest Great Barrier Reef Great Victorian Desert Gibson Desert Directions: Pick a color for each area.

Create a key on your map.

Color in each area on map.

What conclusions can you draw from examining in the maps you created for Australia and Oceania? What do you think will be some of the advantages and challenges for this continent? POLITICAL MAP OF AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA PHYSICAL MAP OF AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA