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)

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