World Regional Geography

World Regional Geography Map Packet 1 North America and Europe

Instructions: Label the features listed below on the appropriate map. Some regions may require two maps because they are so small or have many features to map. You may choose to trace or color various features to aid in identification and to show distribution. Create a key to show the reader what symbol or color represents each feature. Do not place numbers on the map and list the features to the side. Grading: 7.5 points = all features correctly labeled…you have done what I asked…this is average work. 7.5 points = all features correctly labeled and extra effort (coloring, drawing, etc.) this is subjective….you must IMPRESS me for 10 points  See the “Map Do’s and Don’t” handout for more information. Sample maps are in my office.

North America – physical and cultural features can be drawn on a single map (Atlas p. 46-73) Physical Features: Water – Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Baffin Bay, Bering Sea, Beaufort Sea, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Hudson Bay, Labrador Sea, Pacific Ocean Lakes – Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Great Salt Lake, Great Lakes, Lake Winnipeg Rivers – Colorado River, Columbia River, Mackenzie River, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Ohio River, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence River, Yukon River Islands – Aleutian Islands, Alexander Archipelago, Baffin Island, Newfoundland, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Vancouver Island Mountains – Alaska Range, Appalachian Mountains, Brooks Range, Cascade Range, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Highlands / Plateaus – Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Ozark Plateau Lowlands / Plains – Canadian Shield, Coastal Plains, Great Plains Deserts – Sonoran

Cultural Features: Countries – Canada, United States Major Cities – Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New York, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Quebec, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington D.C., Winnipeg

Europe – use two maps – one for physical and one for cultural features (Atlas p. 134-139) Physical Features: Water – Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Bay of Biscay, Black Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Strait of Gibraltar Lakes – Vanern Rivers – Danube, Dniester, Ebro, Elbe, Loire, Seine, Oder, Po, Rhine, Rhone, Tagus, Thames, Vistula Islands – Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, Faroe, Great Britain, Gotland, Iceland, Ireland, Sardinia, Shetland, Sicily Mountains – Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, Dinaric Alps, Pyrenees, Transylvanian Alps Highlands / Plateaus – Grampian Mountains, Iberian Peninsula, Massif Central, Scandinavian Peninsula, Lowlands / Plains – Aquitaine Basin, Great Hungarian Basin, Gotaland, Jutland, Lake Region, Northern European Plain, Paris Basin Cultural Features: Countries – Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden , Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Major Cities – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Dublin, Glasgow, Istanbul, Kiev, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Minsk, Naples, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Riga, Rome, Sarajevo, Stockholm, Sofia, Vienna, Warsaw World Regional Geography Map Packet 2 Russia and Central Asia Instructions: Label the features listed below on the appropriate map. Some regions may require two maps because they are so small or have many features to map. You may choose to trace or color various features to aid in identification and to show distribution. Create a key to show the reader what symbol or color represents each feature. Do not place numbers on the map and list the features to the side. Grading: 7.5 points = all features correctly labeled…you have done what I asked…this is average work. 7.5 points = all features correctly labeled and extra effort (coloring, drawing, etc.) this is subjective….you must IMPRESS me for 10 points  See the “Map Do’s and Don’t” handout for more information. Sample maps are in my office.

Russia & Central Asia Use two maps – one for physical features and one for cultural features (Atlas p. 134-149; 152-156) Note that Western Russia is on the Europe map and Eastern Russia is on the Asia map in your atlas.

Physical Features: Water – Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Bering Sea, Black Sea, Kara Sea, Sea of Azov, Sea of Okotsk Lakes – Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal, Lake Balkhash, Lake Lagoda, Lake Onega Rivers – Amu Darya, Amur, Dniester, Dnieper, Don, Irysh, Kolyma, Lena, Ob, Syr Darya, Yenisey, Volga Islands – Kuril, Novaya Zemlya, Sakhalin Mountains – Caucasus, Sayan, Ural, Yablonovy, Kolyma Range, Pamirs Highlands / Plateaus – Central Russian Upland, Central Siberian Plateau, East Siberian Uplands, Kazakh Uplands Lowlands / Plains – Caspian Depression, Dnieper Lowland, North European Plain, Oka-Don Plain, Turan Lowlands, West Siberian Plain Other Features –Crimea Peninsula, Kara Kum Desert, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kola Peninsula

Cultural Features Countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan Major Cities – Almaty, Arkhangelsk, Ashgabat, Astana, Baku, Irkutsk, Kiev St. Petersburg, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhiny-Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Odessa, Omsk, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Verkhoyansk, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan, World Regional Geography Map Packet 3 Latin America

South America, Central America & Caribbean

Use two maps – one for physical and one for cultural features

Physical Features Water – Atlantic Ocean, Drake Passage, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico Lakes – Maracaibo, Nicaragua, Titicaca Rivers – Amazon, Orinoco, Parana, Balsas Islands – Bahamas, Falkland, Galapagos, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Tierra del Fuego, Mountains – Andes, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental Highlands / Plateaus – Brazilian Highlands, Guiana Highlands, Mato Grasso Plateau, Plateau of Mexico, Patagoina Lowlands / Plains – Amazon Basin, Gran Chaco, Pampas, Yucatan Peninsula Deserts – Atacama Desert, Sonoran Desert

Cultural Features Countries – Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guinea, Guyana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela

Major Cites – Acapulco, Asuncion, Bogotá, Brasilia, Buenos Aires,Caracas, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Havana, Juarez, Kingston, La Paz, Lima, Manaus, Managua, Mexico City, Montevideo, Nassau, Oaxaca, Port-au-Prince, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Teguclgalpa World Regional Geography Map Packet 4 Africa & Southwest Asia

Africa & Southwest Asia

Use two maps – one for physical and one for cultural features (Atlas p. 122-131; 152-156; 164)

Physical Features Water – Cape of Good Hope, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Mozambique Channel, Red Sea, Persian Gulf Lakes – Chad, Nasser, Nyasa, Tanganyika, Victoria, Volta Rivers - Congo, Euphrates, Jordan, Limpopo, Nile, Niger, Orange, Tigris, Zambezi Islands – Canary, Madagascar, Zanzibar Mountains – Ahaggar, Atlas, Drakensberg, Elburz, Kilamanjaro, Tibesti, Zagros Deserts – An Nafud, Kalahari, Namib, Sahara, Syrian Highlands / Plateaus – Ethiopian Highlands, Jos Plateau, Katanga Plateau, Plateau of Iran Lowlands / Plains – Congo Basin, Mesopotamia

Cultural Features (Africa) Countries – Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Major Cites – Accra, Addis Abba, Alexandria, Algiers, Tripoli, Cairo, Casablanca, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Kinshasa, Lagos, Luanda, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Timbuktu

Cultural Features (Southwest Asia) Countries – Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen Major Cites – Aleppo, Amman, Ankara, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Dubai, Jerusalem, Kirkuk, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, Tehran World Regional Geography Map Packet 5 Australia, Pacific & Asia

Use two maps for physical and cultural features. (Atlas p. 152-169)

Physical Features Water – Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Celebes Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, Java Sea, Luzon Strait, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Strait of Malacca Rivers – Ganges, Indus, Irrawaddy, Mekong, Huang He, Yangtze, Xi Jiang, Islands – Borneo, Java, Hainan, Honshu, Hokkaido, Maldive, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Taiwan Mountain – Altai, Himalayas, Tian Shan, Kunlun, Westerns Ghats Deserts – Great Indian Desert, Gobi, Taklimakan Highlands / Plateaus – Deccan Plateau, Plateau of Tibet, Yunnan Plateau Lowlands / Plains – Ganges Plain, Manchurian Plain, North China Plain, Sichuan Basin Other – Malay Peninsula

Cultural Features Countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam Major Cities – Bangkok, Bangalore, Beijing, Delhi, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Karachi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Pyongyang, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Xian

Australia & Pacific

Use one map for physical and cultural features. (Atlas p. 172-179)

Physical Features Water – Bass Strait, Bay of Plenty, Coral Sea, Cook Strait, Great Australian Bight, Gulf of Carpentaria, Timor Sea, Tasman Sea Lakes – Lake Disappointment, Lake Eyre Rivers – Darling, Flinders, Murray, Islands - Fraser, Kangaroo, North Island, South Island, Tasmania Mountains – Great Dividing Range, Southern Alps Deserts – Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Simpson Desert Highlands / Plateaus – Arnhem Land, Kimberley Plateau, Macdonnell Ranges, Flinders Ranges Lowlands / Plains – Central Lowland, Nullarbor Plain Other Features – Great Barrier Reef

Cultural Features Countries – Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea Major Cities – Adelaide, Alice Springs, Auckland, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Wellington