Continent Review

It is important that students become familiar with the major physical features of each continent to prepare for the biweekly geography quizzes.  To start off, each quiz will focus on an individual continent.  As we progress through the year the quizzes will have the entire world map with various features needing to be identified.

Western Hemisphere:

Students need to be able to locate the following major physical features on their map quizzes.

  • Rocky Mountains
  • Appalachian Mountains
  • Andes Mountains
  • Sonoran Desert
  • Amazon Rainforest
  • West Indies
  • Central America
  • Yucatan Peninsula 

 

  • Mississippi River
  • Rio Grande River
  • Ohio River
  • Amazon River
  • Great Lakes (HOMES)
  • Great Salt Lake
  • Hudson Bay
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Caribbean Sea

 


Blank Map of North America 



Blank Map of South America

 

 Eastern Hemisphere




Asia:

Students need to be able to locate the following major physical features on their map quizzes. 

  • Himalaya Mts
  • Ural Mts
  • Caspian Sea
  • Yellow Sea
  • China Sea
  • Arabian Sea
  • Red Sea
  • Persian Gulf
  • Bay of Bengal

 

  • Euphrates River
  • Indus River
  • Ganges River
  • Yangtze River
  • Huang Ho (Yellow) River
  • Indian Subcontinent
  • Arbian Peninsula
  • Gobi Desert
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Europe 

Mts: Alps, Pyrenees
Rivers: Danube, Rhine, Rhone, Loire, Volga
Seas: Mediterranean, Baltic, North, Black, Aegean, Adriatic, Ionian

 



 



 



 



 Africa

Mts: Atlas
Deserts: Sahara & Kalahari
Rivers: Nile, Congo, Niger
LakesChad; Victoria Falls
Great Rift Valley





 

 
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