GEOGRAPHY PACKET FOR

Honors World History

CONTENTS:

Test on the United States

Test on Central and South America and the Caribbean

Tests on Europe

Test on the Middle East and Asia

Test on Africa

*For test it is noted whether or not a word bank will be provided.  Unless otherwise noted, the standard format will be a map(s) with letters or numbers and you write on a separate piece of paper the appropriate name next to the appropriate letter or number.

*There are many good blank outline maps all over the internet.  This packet will only be provided in hard copy once, if you lose it then go to my website to print it out again.  Technology problems are not an excuse since you were provided with the packet in hard copy.

*All map tests can be retaken ONE time.  If you choose to do this the two scores will be averaged together for the final score.  So if you score lower the second time it will lower your grade.  All map tests must be retaken within 2 weeks of the date your class took the original test unless it is the end of the quarter in which case it must be done no later than 3 days before the end of the quarter.  You CANNOT retake a map test on the same day that you took the test.  You must wait until the next day to retake.  All retakes must be scheduled before school, after school, or during H Bells.  No class time will be provided for retakes.

Test 1: United States.  All 50 States  Format: No Word Bank
This test does NOT cover capitals, only the location of the states.

Test 2: Central America, Caribbean, South America.

Format: Identify Location of Countries using a Word Bank, Identify  the Country whose official language is English and the one where it is Portuguese, Identify and Describe the 6 types of people who live there today, list the world's second longest river and the countries it flows through, list the world's longest mountain range and the coast it is located on.

 8 Central American Countries

7 Caribbean Islands, all with Spanish as the official language

South America’s 14 Countries

Population of South America today:

Mestizos: mixed Native Indian and European.

Mulattos: mixed African and European.

Native Indian

African descent/black

These four groups are over half of the population of South America.

There are also people of Asian descent and European descent.

The Amazon River which flows through Brazil and Peru was discovered to be the world’s second longest river.

The Andes Mountains which are along the whole of the west coast of South America were discovered to be the world’s longest mountain range.

Test 3:  Bodies of Water and Mountains of Europe.

Format: With Word Bank.  There will be numbers next to the rivers and mountains and in the other bodies of water.  In other words same format as identifying countries. 

Rivers:

Seas, Oceans, Channels, Straits, Gulfs

Mountain Ranges

Test 4: Countries of Europe: Identify all countries using a word Bank and answer the following questions:

 18 Countries of Northern and Western Europe

Northern Europe

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are also Scandinavian countries and must be labeled both Northern Europe and Scandinavian

Western Europe

8 Central European Countries

Southeastern Europe  10 Countries

6 states that formerly made up Yugoslavia: Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia

2 states that currently make up Yugoslavia: Serbia and Montenegro.

Eastern Europe 10 Countries ( All were part of the former Soviet Union)

Test 5: Middle East and Asia PLUS : Asian Bodies of Water and Mountain Ranges.  There is a Word Bank.

You must also be able to identify which 5 Asian countries were once part of the Soviet Union.

 Middle East  15 Countries

South Asia and Southeastern Asia 18 Countries

South Asia

Southeastern Asia

Far Eastern and Western Asia  11 Countries

Far Eastern

Western Asia (All of these were once part of the Soviet Union)

 Bodies of Water and Mountain Ranges

TEST 6: African Countries, Bodies of Water, Mountains, etc. and their Colonial Rulers.  You must be able to locate the countries and to name their colonial rulers.  There is a word bank for the Countries, not for the colonial rulers.  You must also be able to name the two African countries that were still free of colonial rule in 1900: Liberia and Ethiopia. And which country eventually and briefly conquered Ethiopia. You also have to identify the Bodies of Water, Mountains, Valleys, and Deserts listed here.

Northern Africa  11 countries                   

Western Africa  12 Countries                  

Central Africa                     

Eastern Africa                 

Southern Africa  9 Countries                 

Bodies of Water:

Congo River,  Niger River,  Nile River, Zambezi River, Lake Victoria (world’s second largest), Lake Tanganyika (world’s longest lake), Lake Chad, Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel, Red Sea

Mountains, Valleys, and Deserts:

Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Great Rift Valley, Sahara Desert, Namib Desert, the Atlas Mountains

Colonial Rulers:

Belgian: Democratic Republic of the Congo

French: Most of Gabon, Chad, Most of Central African Republic, Most of Congo, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Small Parts of Libya, Madagascar, Djibouti, Part of Somolia, Benin, Guinea

Portuguese: Angola, Mozambique, Cameroon, Small Part of Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Small Part of Senegal.

British: Egypt, Parts of Libya, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Most of Nigeria, Gambia, South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone

German: Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Namibia, Small Part of Congo, Small Part of Gabon, Small Part of Central African Republic, Togo

Spanish: Equatorial Guinea

Italian: Most of Somalia, Eritrea  (only later under Mussolini in the 1930s did the Italians conquer Ethiopia)