WORLD LOCATIONS LIST #1
GEOG 2243
Chuck Ziehr, Northeastern State UniversityAFRICA, OCEANIA (including AUSTRALIA), AND CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
The objective of the first world locations quiz is to develop a mental framework of three major areas of the world: This locational framework should include major rivers, land masses, mountain ranges, water bodies, countries, and cities. The list may appear long, but even so it contains only a limited number of essential locations and current event places. The process of learning the locations on this list will likely also cause you to inadvertently learn the locations of a number of other places not on the list.
On a world map and appropriate regional maps be able to locate the following places. Be able to locate the listed cities along an appropriate river or water body or within about 75 miles of its actual location if not on a river or water body.Study suggestion: Find the required locations in your atlas, mark and label those locations on blank outline maps of the world and on regional maps. Trace in rivers, trace country boundaries, color in country areas. Blank outline maps can be found at the "Outline Maps Online" section of the class webpage <http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~ziehr/resource/outlinemaps.html>, in the Outline Map Set available on reserve in the library, and the Mapping Workbook that came with your textbook.. There is a sample, practice map quiz available on the class webpage <http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~ziehr/courses/geog2243/wor1_prc.html>. Practice describing how to find a given location to someone. If you can describe where it is well enough for them to find it on a map, then you know where it is!
RIVERS
Amazon Congo Darling Murray
Niger Nile Orange Orinoco
Parana Sao Francisco Zambezi
LAND MASSES
Africa Australia Cuba Hispaniola Madagascar New Caledonia New Guinea Tasmania
MOUNTAIN RANGES
Andes Atlas Drakensberg Great Dividing Range
WATER BODIES
Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea Coral Sea Gulf of Carpentaria Indian Ocean Lake Chad Lake Nyasa Lake Tanganyika Lake Titicaca Lake Victoria Mediterranean Sea Pacific Ocean Red Sea Gulf of Aden Gulf of Guinea
CITIES
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire Algiers, Algeria Auckland, New Zealand Bogota, Colombia Brisbane, Australia Buenos Aires, Argentina Cairo, Egypt Cape Town, South Africa Dakar, Senegal Lagos, Nigeria Lima, Peru Managua, Nicaragua Melbourne, Australia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Santiago, Chile Sao Paulo, Brazil Sydney, Australia Tegucigalpa, Honduras
COUNTRIES
Angola Argentina Bolivia Botswana Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dem. Rep. of the Congo Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guyana Haiti Kenya Liberia Libya Mali Mozambique Panama Peru Rwanda Solomon Islands Somalia Sudan Uganda Uruguay Venezuela Zambia Zimbabwe Sierra Leone
Created by Chuck Ziehr; last revised January 11, 2006.