Earth Science 100 -- GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES
Directions: Use the accompanying world map to locate and label the following geographic features, using different colors for different categories. (Note: you may need to draw in a few of the features listed below.)Oceans
Pacific Ocean | Atlantic Ocean | Indian Ocean | Arctic Ocean |
Continents
North America | South America | Europe | Asia | Africa |
Australia | Antarctica |
Islands/Other Land Masses
Aleutian Islands | Hawaiian Islands | Galápagos Islands | Canary Islands | West Indies |
Channel Islands (southern California) | Tierra del Fuego | Guam | Society Islands (Tahiti) | Krakatoa (Indonesia) |
Philippines | Greenland | Iceland | Long Island (N.Y.) | New Zealand |
Great Britain | India | Baja California | Japan | Bermuda |
Seas/Gulfs/Bays (there are actually 54 recognized seas worldwide!)
Mediterranean Sea | South China Sea | Bering Sea | Caribbean Sea | Gulf of Mexico |
Sea of Okhotsk | Sea of Japan | North Sea | Red Sea | Black Sea |
Baltic Sea | Coral Sea | Beaufort Sea | Gulf of Alaska | Sargasso Sea |
Persian Gulf | Arabian Sea | Bay of Bengal | Tasman Sea | Gulf of California
(Sea of Cortez) |
Labrador Sea | Bay of Fundy | Chesapeake Bay | San Francisco Bay |
Salt Lakes (often termed "seas")
Caspian Sea | Aral Sea | Great Salt Lake | Dead Sea | Salton Sea |
Mountain Ranges
Himalayan Mountains | Andes Mountains | Cascade Mountains | Rocky Mountains | Appalachian Mountains |
Sierra Nevada Mountains (California) | Ural Mountains | Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR) | East Pacific Rise | Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
Oceanographic Features
Bering Strait | Strait of Magellan | Strait of Gibraltar | Strait of Juan de Fuca | Cape Agulhas |
Cape Horn | Drake Passage | Mariana Trench | Emperor Seamounts | Great Barrier Reef |
Other Important Features
Amazon River | Columbia River | Nile River | Suez Canal | Tibetan Plateau |
Equator | Tropic of Capricorn | Tropic of Cancer | San Andreas Fault | East African Rift Valley |
Pacific Ring of Fire | Brazil (Country) | Peru (Country) | Bangladesh (Country) | Benguela (city in Angola, Africa) |