AP World History Ms. Avar File: Geography
MUST KNOW
Geography Description You must understand Geography to effectively study world history. Practice and learn the skills in your Geography 101 packet (given to you the first week of school), know the location of world regions and sub regions and be able to identify and locate key nations, landforms and bodies of water listed on this sheet.
POLTICAL MAPS Instructions: Neatly locate, outline in color and label ALL of the following countries on your Continent Political maps. Use the world map at end of your textbook, Google Maps and/or worldatlas.com (search by continent)
AFRICA North Africa Algeria Egypt East Ethiopia Kenya Libya Morocco Africa Madagascar Somalia Tunisia Sudan Tanzania West Africa Chad Benin Ghana Equatorial Cameroon Rwanda Mali Mauritania Senegal Africa Uganda Sudan Niger Nigeria Central African Republic Togo Cote D’Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Southern Africa Angola Botswana Zimbabwe Zambia Republic of South Africa Mozambique
ASIA East Asia Japan China SE Asia Cambodia Indonesia Vietnam North Korea South Korea Myanmar (Burma) Malaysia Thailand Taiwan Mongolia Philippines Singapore Laos South Asia Afghanistan Bangladesh SW Asia / Iran Iraq Turkey India Pakistan Middle East Jordan Israel Nepal Syria Saudi Arabia Central Asia Kazakhstan
EUROPE Western France Germany Ireland Eastern Hungary Poland Europe Portugal Spain Switzerland Europe Romania Russia England/Great Britain/United Kingdom “U.K.” Ukraine Serbia Austria Czech Republic Northern Finland Norway Southern Italy Europe Sweden Europe Greece
AMERICAS (South & North) Latin America Mexico Chile Honduras Caribbean Bahamas Cuba Panama Nicaragua Ecuador Jamaica Puerto Rico Argentina Brazil Peru Haiti Dominican Republic Venezuela Colombia Costa Rica North United States Canada El Salvador Honduras Guatemala America TURN OVER FOR ADDITIONAL MAP INSTRUCTIONS WORLD MAP Instructions: Neatly locate and label ALL of the following on your “World Map”
DIRECTIONAL TERMS CONTINENTS Draw and label: Outline and label the 7 continents using different colors for each: The Equator: 0° Latitude Prime Meridian: 0° Longitude North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania/Australia, Antarctica Complete the Compass Rose: OCEANS Label the world’s 5 oceans:
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean
PHYSICAL MAPS: Landforms & Bodies of Water Instructions: Neatly locate and label – using color - ALL of the following physical features on your Regional Physical maps. You may use symbols in a legend box if appropriate. Draw in features (much like the mountain ranges and rivers pre-drawn on the Europe map). Be accurate in your placement of features - and neat - so when we annotate the map with additional data you will have a legible study tool upon completion. To locate the features, use Google Maps and/or worldatlas.com as a resource (select the region select landforms).*
EUROPE AFRICA Mediterranean Sea Sahara Desert Ural Mountains Nile River North Sea Congo River Baltic Sea Niger River Scandinavian Peninsula Isthmus of Suez (connects to Asia) Iberian Peninsula Mt. Kilimanjaro Rhine River Lake Victoria The Alps (mountain range) Ethiopian Highlands Pyrenees Mountains Kalahari Desert Namib Desert NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Rocky Mountains Andes ASIA (Continental Divide) Altiplano Yangtze River Appalachian Mountains Lake Titicaca Huang River (Yellow River) Mississippi River Amazon River Gobi Desert Great Lakes Patagonia Siberia Hudson Bay Tierra del Fuego Arabian Sea Sierra Madre Occidental Orinoco River Black Sea Baja California Paraná River Bay of Bengal Yucatán Peninsula Rio de la Plata South China Sea Isthmus of Panama Atacama Desert East China Sea Gulf of Mexico Lake Maracaibo Himalayan Mountains Tarim Basin OCEANIA Malay Peninsula Australian Outback Great Barrier Reef Tasman Sea Great Dividing Range Cook Straight *Feel free to use other sites/textbooks to locate
South Island & North Island (New Zealand) features if you have trouble finding something.