WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
     MAP QUIZ #1  Study Guide


arrow Don't forget to bring scantron sheet (form #882-E)

arrow There are several ways to get blank maps for our map quizzes.  

First, you have the blank maps on the textbook CD-ROM.  

Second, for your convenience, I also place the maps here, at our course web-site, the links are just below, click and download.  Let me know if this does not work.  

arrow Sub-Saharan blank map

arrow North Africa-W Asia blank map

To open PDF files, you need to have Adobe Reader (Adober Acrobat Reader) installed on your computer.  If your computer does not have the required program, please visit www.adobe.com/acrobat for free downloading.


The list of places to memorize is below


Third way to get the maps is to visit the web-site of our textbook (skip these  instructions if you have downloaded the maps from the above links).

1. Visit the web-site of our textbook:
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e/

2. Find in the right bottom column "Blank Outline Maps" and click this link.  Select Chapter 7, open blank outline map from there for Sub-Saharan Africa, and print it out.  A more direct way is to follow this link:
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=category&s=00060&n=07000&i=07060.01&o=|07000|&ns=0

3, Do the same for Chapter 6, N Africa & SW Asia.  Direct link to the map:
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=category&s=00060&n=06000&i=06060.01&o=|07000|06000|&ns=0

If your computer does not have Acrobat, required to open PDF files, please visit www.adobe.com/acrobat for a free download.




Memorize  locations
on these two maps of the following features: physical features, cities and countries.  Only half of these features will be used for actual test, but you should know locations of all these features.  Cities are not represented by any symbol, just do your best locating them.  
This quiz is 1/3 shorter than quizzes #2 and 3.


SS Africa: Physical Features

Atlantic Ocean
Congo Basin
Ethiopian Highlands
Gulf of Guinea
Horn of Africa
Kalahari Desert
Lake Victoria
Niger River
Namib Desert
Sahel

SS Africa: Countries

Angola
Ethiopia
Gabon
Kenya
Madagascar
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Somalia
South Africa

SS Africa: Cities

Addis Ababa
Cape Town
Dakar
Dar es Salaam
Djibouti
Johannesburg
Kinshasa
Lagos
Mogadishu
Nairobi

N Africa / SW Asia: Physical Features

Arabian Sea
Atlas Mountains
Euphrates River
Lake Nasser
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Strait of Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Sahara Desert

N Africa / SW Asia: Countries

Algeria
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Libya
Morocco
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Turkey

N Africa SW / Asia: Cities

Ankara
Baghdad
Cairo
Damascus
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Mecca
Riyadh
Tehran
Tripoli
Tunis