SYLLABUS SCHEDULE LINKS
STUDY THESE LOCATION LISTS using your atlas and sample outline maps:
WORLD: Houghton Mifflin maps; Univ. of Alabama maps;
National Geographic Atlas;
USA: Houghton Mifflin maps; geography.about.com;
National Geographic Atlas
WORLD LOCATION LIST USA LOCATION LIST
Continents This country and Its Neighbors
Begin by locating the seven Start this list by locating the USA
"traditional" continents: and its neighbors, north and south:
AFRICA CANADA
ANTARCTICA MEXICO
ASIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AUSTRALIA also a country
EUROPE Major Bodies of Water
NORTH AMERICA Some of these define US boundaries,
SOUTH AMERICA some are shared, some are entirely
inside the USA:
Major Bodies of Water ATLANTIC OCEAN
Look for these oceans, seas, COLORADO RIVER forms CA/AZ boundary
and important rivers: COLUMBIA RIVER
AMAZON RIVER GULF OF MEXICO
ARCTIC OCEAN LAKE ERIE
ATLANTIC OCEAN LAKE HURON
CARIBBEAN SEA LAKE MICHIGAN
CASPIAN SEA LAKE ONTARIO
CONGO RIVER LAKE SUPERIOR
INDIAN OCEAN MISSISSIPPI RIVER
MEDITERRANEAN SEA MISSOURI RIVER
MISSISSIPPI RIVER OHIO RIVER
NILE RIVER PACIFIC OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN RED RIVER OF THE NORTH
PERSIAN GULF RIO GRANDE Rio Bravo del Norte
RED SEA ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
YANGTZE RIVER YUKON RIVER
Some Prominent Landforms Some Prominent Landforms
A few mountain ranges, major Here are four mountain ranges
peaks, and promontories to study: and two physiographic regions:
the ALPS mtn. range the APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
the ANDES mtn. range the CASCADE RANGE
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE the GREAT BASIN interior West
CAPE HORN the GREAT PLAINS
the CAUCASUS mtn. range the ROCKY MOUNTAINS
the HIMALAYAS the SIERRA NEVADA
MT. EVEREST
MT. KILIMANJARO States and Provinces
the ROCKY MOUNTAINS We'll do all fifty states (and capitals)
the URAL MOUNTAINS later in the semester!
ALASKA
Countries ALBERTA province
A few important places from the ARIZONA
political map and headlines: BRITISH COLUMBIA province
ARGENTINA CALIFORNIA
BRAZIL COLORADO
CANADA FLORIDA
CHINA GEORGIA
COLOMBIA HAWAII
EGYPT IDAHO
FRANCE ILLINOIS
GERMANY IOWA
INDIA MAINE
INDONESIA MICHIGAN
IRAQ NEVADA
JAPAN NEW YORK
MEXICO OHIO
NIGERIA ONTARIO province
NORTH KOREA OREGON
RUSSIA QUEBEC province
SOUTH AFRICA PENNSYLVANIA
UNITED KINGDOM OF TEXAS
GREAT BRITAIN AND UTAH
NORTHERN IRELAND VIRGINIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WASHINGTON state, not city
