AP Human Geography Summer Assignment: World Maps Part of AP Human Geography is knowing where countries are located. Throughout the school year we will be discussing these locations. You will also be taking map quizzes on these regions. Do NOT procrastinate on this assignment. A crucial part of any Advanced Placement class is learning how to manage your time wisely. Directions: You are to create your own atlas by labeling and shading all of the political and physical features listed in the following pages. Do NOT simply print out labeled maps. You must label these maps by hand. Several websites contains blank regional maps; however, I have listed a few good sites for both blank maps and geography practice. Notes: - Print multiple copies of each region of the world in order to separate the physical features of each continent from the names of the countries / capitals. Do NOT do this assignment on one giant world map! - Place the maps inside either a three-pronged folder or a ½ to 1 inch binder with your name, period and teacher’s name on the front cover. - Create a Number Key for each region of the world and label each country with a number for each new region to save space and for legibility purposes. - You do not have to physically color large bodies of water. - This is a research assignment, therefore you will have to research which countries are located in each region, which ones are island nations, dependencies etc. ** Websites that you will be able to print the maps from: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/ http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ ** Reference for how many countries / dependencies / non-member observer states of the U.N. that you will need to label from every continent (please also include Taiwan when labeling your maps). http://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world ** Game websites that will help you practice basic geography identification: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com http://www.freerice.com Canada, the United States, and Greenland 1. Label and shade the 2 countries and 1 territory and label their capital cities. Shade each nation in a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada 3. Labe the following land features: Alaska Range Sierra Nevada Mountains Cascade Mountains Death Valley Desert Coast Ranges Great Basin Desert Mt. Logan Mojave Desert Mt. McKinley (Denali) Painted Desert Rocky Mountains 4. Shade in blue and label the following features: Arkansas River Great Salt Lake Colorado River Great Slave Lake Mississippi River Hudson Bay Missouri River Lake Erie Ohio River Lake Huron Rio Grande Lake Michigan St. Lawrence River Lake Ontario Yukon River Lake Superior Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Great Bear Lake South America 1. Label and shade all of the countries and dependencies of South America and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Andes Mountains Atacama Desert Brazilian Highlands Patagonia Plateau 3. Label the following water features: Amazon River Atlantic Ocean Orinoco River Caribbean Sea Paraguay River Lake Titicaca Parana River Pacific Ocean Rio de la Plata Strait of Magellan Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean 1. Label and shade the following countries and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. Antigua Honduras Bahamas Jamaica Barbados Mexico Belize Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Cuba St. Kitts and Nevis Dominican Republic Trinidad and Tobago El Salvador Guatemala Haiti 2. Label the following land features: Baja California Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Madre del Sur Yucatan Peninsula Sierra Madre Occidental 3. Label the following water features: Rio Grande Gulf of California Sonora River Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Caribbean Sea Panama Canal Western Europe 1. Label and shade all of the countries of Western Europe and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Alps Apennines Mont Blanc Pindus Mountains Pyrenees 3. Label the following bodies of water: Danube River Atlantic Ocean Thames River Adriatic Sea Rhine River Gulf of Finland Elbe River Baltic Sea Tiber River Aegean Sea Rhone River Mediterranean Sea Loire River Bay of Biscay Strait of Gibraltar Arctic Ocean Seine River North Sea Po River English Channel Eastern Europe 1. Label and shade all of the countries of Eastern Europe and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Balkan Mountains Carpathian Mountains Mt. Musala Pindus Mountains Rhodope Mountains Sudetic Mountains Transylvanian Alps 3. Label the following bodies of water: Danube River Adriatic Sea Baltic Sea Black Sea Northern Eurasia 1. Label and shade all of the countries of Northern Eurasia and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Caucasus Mountains Mt. Elbrus Sayan Mountains Ural Mountains Kamchatka Peninsula Kara Kum Desert 3. Label the following bodies of water: Ob River Bering Sea Aral Sea Bering Strait Ural River Black Sea Arctic Sea Caspian Sea Volga River Kara Sea Baltic Sea Pacific Ocean Southwest Asia 1. Label and shade all of the countries of Southwest Asia and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Mt. Ararat Negev Desert Pontic Mountains Rub al Khali Taurus Mountains Syrian Desert Zagros Mountains 3. Label the following bodies of water: Euphrates River Mediterranean Sea Dardanelles Strait Black Sea Jordan River Persian Gulf Dead Sea Bosporus Strait Tigris River Red Sea Gulf of Aden Caspian Sea Aegean Sea Strait of Hormuz Gulf of Oman Arabian Sea North Africa 1. Label and shade all of the countries and 1 territory of North Africa and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Arabian Desert Atlas Mountains Libyan Desert Sahara Desert Sinai Peninsula 3. Label the following bodies of water: Atlantic Ocean Nile River Gulf of Suez Red Sea Lake Nasser Strait of Gibraltar Mediterranean Sea Suez Canal Nile Delta West Africa 1. Label and shade all of the countries (1 is an island nation) of West Africa and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Mt. Dimlang Sahara Desert 3. Label the following bodies of water: Gambia River Niger River Senegal River Volta River Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Guinea Lake Chad Lake Volta Central Africa 1. Label and shade all of the countries (1 is an island nation) of Central Africa and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Sahara Desert 3. Label the following bodies of water: Congo River Kasai River Ubangi River Atlantic Ocean Gulf of Guinea Lake Chad Lake Tanganyika Eastern and Southern Africa 1. Label and shade all of the countries (3 are island nations) of Eastern and Southern Africa and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Cape of Good Hope Drakensburg Mountains Kalahari Desert Mt. Kilimanjaro Sahara Desert Serengeti Plain 3. Label the following bodies of water: Blue Nile River Lake Nyasa Nile River Lake Tanganyika White Nile River Lake Victoria Atlantic Ocean Mozambique Channel Gulf of Aden Red Sea Indian Ocean South Asia 1. Label and shade all of the countries (2 are island nations) of South Asia and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the following land features: Himalaya Mountains Hindu Kush Khyber Pass Mt. Everett 3. Label the following bodies of water: Brahmaputra River Arabian Sea Ganges River Bay of Bengal Godavari River Indian Ocean Indus River Central and East Asia 1. Label and shade all of the countries of Central and East Africa and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. Label the four main islands of Japan: Hokkaido Honshu Kyushu Shikoku 3. Label the following land features: Altai Mountains Japanese Alps Gobi Desert Mt. Everest Himalaya Mountains Mt. Fuji 4. Label the following bodies of water: Amur River Taiwan Strait Sea of Japan Xi River Huang He (Yellow) River Yellow Sea Sea of Okhotsk Yangtze River Mekong River East China Sea South China Sea Gulf of Tonkin Salween River Pacific Ocean Australia and Oceania 1. Label and shade Australia and New Zealand and label their capital cities. Shade each nation a different color so they are easy to recognize. 2. 2. Label the 3 regions of Oceania, and the island groups within each region Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Fiji Northern Marianas American Samoa New Caledonia Guam Cook islands Papua New Guinea Marshall Islands Hawaii Solomon Islands Federated States of Micronesia Kiribati Vanuatu Nauru French Polynesia Palau Samoa Tonga Tuvalu 3. Label the following land features: Australian Alps Great Barrier Reef Great Dividing Range Great Victoria Desert 4. Shade blue and label the following bodies of water: Darling River Pacific Ocean Murray River Philippine Sea Bass Strait Tasman Sea Coral Sea Timor Sea Gulf of Carpentaria Indian Ocean .