Geog study guide

Geography 120 Place Name List for Map Quizzes


EUROPE (Excluding Russia and Ukraine)

On the map of Europe be able to label the following features:

All countries Po River Thames River Seine River Rhine (Rhein) River Danube River Rhone River Pyrenees Alps Dinaric Alps
Carpathian Mtns Baltic Sea North Sea Adriatic Sea Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea London Paris Berlin Madrid

Rome Budapest Vienna Stockholm Prague


RUSSIA

On the map of the former USSR be able to label the following features:
All countries created from the former Soviet Union
Kiev Caspian Sea Moscow Lake Baikal St. Petersburg
Amur River Ob River Volga River Yenisey River Samara
Caucasus Mts. Aral Sea Vladivostok Black Sea Dnepr River
Odessa Chernobyl Baku Sakhalin Island


UNITED STATES AND CANADA

On the map of North America be able to label the following features:
All Canadian Provinces and Territories
Rocky Mountains Appalachian Mountains Sierra Nevada Mtns. Lake Huron
Mississippi River Ohio River Rio Grande River Toronto
Ottawa Vancouver, B.C. Montreal Chicago
Atlanta Washington, D.C. Miami Seattle
St. Lawrence River Mackenzie River Colorado River Los Angeles
Ozark Plateau Lake Ontario Lake Erie Lake Michigan
Hudson Bay Gulf of Mexico Lake Superior

AFRICA

On the map of Africa be able to label the following features:
All countries Namib Desert Lake Victoria Congo River Niger River
Zambezi River Mt. Kilimanjaro Kigali Lagos Kinshasa
Nairobi Johannesburg Cape Town Nile River Sahara
Abidjan Khartoum


MIDDLE EAST

On the map of the Middle East be able to label the following features:
All countries Tigris River Euphrates River Red Sea Persian Gulf
Mediterranean Sea Straits of Hormuz Gaza Strip West Bank Golan Heights
Zagros Mts. Damascus Baghdad Istanbul Tehran
Ankara Jerusalem Mecca Cairo Suez Canal
Riyadh Beirut




ASIA

On the maps of Southeast Asia and South and East Asia be able to label the following features:
All countries (including Singapore, Brunei, Solomon Islands, Palau, Micronesia, and Northern Mariana Islands) Indus River Ganges River Brahmaputra Yangtze (Chang)
Huang He (Yellow R.) Bay of Bengal Yellow Sea Himalaya Mts. Plateau of Tibet
Deccan Plateau Gobi Desert Hokkaido Honshu Karachi
Delhi Bombay Calcutta Taipei Hong Kong
Shanghai Beijing Seoul Tokyo Dhaka
Spratley Islands Timor Port Moresby Darwin, Australia Luzon
Mekong River Strait of Malacca Mindanao Sumatra Borneo
Java Hanoi Bangkok Jakarta Manila
Kuala Lumpur South China Sea


LATIN AMERICA

On the map of Middle and South America be able to label the following features:
All countries (except those of the Lesser Antilles)
Amazon River Parana River Orinoco River Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico
Lake Maracaibo Lake Titicaca Yucatan Hispaniola Lesser Antilles

Andes Mts Brazilian Highlands Pampas Patagonia Falkland Islands Buenos Aires Montevideo Brasilia Rio de Janeiro Santiago

Lima Quito Bogota Caracas Managua
Guatemala City Mexico City Havana Port-au-Prince Puerto Rico