Dear Pre-AP World Geography Student, Welcome to PAP World Geography. Congratulations on taking an advanced academic subject! This class is relevant as it gives a great foundation for many of the classes you will take throughout your high school and college career. It is also rigorous and will require you to spend time studying and preparing for class. Most of all though, the class is interesting and I try very hard to make the learning of the material enjoyable. Your summer assignment is to learn and be prepared for six map tests over the course of the year. See the attached list of 50 states, world countries and major landforms. To complete this assignment, you must purchase a box of map pencils and a world atlas. You will be using the atlas during the year as well, so keep that in mind when you re making your selection. On the next page I have a listing of background knowledge that will lead to early success in the class. This is information you will need to know and will be tested on throughout the year beginning the first two weeks of school. Please take the time to look at the lists and learn what you need to learn. You will need to print multiple copies of the world map to label all of the information. For example one for general stuff, one for major land forms, one for cities, one for major bodies of water and rivers. Use your best judgment for the rest. Make the maps neat and readable. Some guidelines for labeling and a grading rubric are on the page following the background knowledge list. Assemble all of the maps in a folder to submit no later than August 28, 2017. The project will be considered late after that date and the grade will reflect the late work policy included with the rubric. Feel free to contact me any time over the summer with any questions or concerns. My e-mail is ameadows@dickinsonisd.org. I check my e-mail weekly during the summer and will try to respond within a few days. Enjoy your summer!! I ll see you in August. Sincerely, Adam Meadows Dickinson High School Pre-AP World Geography Boys Varsity Asst. Soccer 281-229-6594 ameadows@dickinsonisd.org Page 1 of 13
PAP Geography Basic Background Knowledge List Part of entering an AP class is an assumption of a certain level of background knowledge and skills. Please review and be prepared to take an assessment the first week of school in the fall relating to this list. The US map is identification. The other two assessments will be primarily matching. Do not worry about spelling. Don t stress out about this! Do some review and familiarize yourself with this information. Think of this knowledge as the ABC s and 1,2,3 s of geography. If you want blank maps to help you study, you can find them at http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/world.html Basic map and atlas skills Using an atlas to locate information Reading and interpreting a map Using latitude and longitude to locate and find places Label the following places on the maps provided. Be able to locate them on a map. (1) General Stuff (World Map) (2) Major Mountain Ranges (World Map) 4 Oceans Himalayas 7 continents Rockies Equator Andes Tropic of Cancer Alps Tropic of Capricorn Caucasus Urals Appalachian Pyrenees (4) Major Deserts / random other stuff Sahara Great Sandy Desert Australia Gobi Siberia (7) Chokepoints (Straits and Channels) World Map Strait of Gibraltar Panama Canal Suez Canal Strait of Malacca English Channel Bosporus & Dardanelles Strait of Hormuz (9) Canadian Provinces (Canada Map) British Columbia Yukon Territory Alberta Saskatchewan Northwest Territories Manitoba Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Labrador Nunavut Ontario Capital Cities of Province (5) Major Climate Regions- which parts of the world fit each category Tropical Dry Mild Continental Polar CREATE A KEY TO IDENTIFY EACH CLIMATE REGION (8) Major World Cities (World Map) New York City London Tokyo Paris Cairo Sydney Sao Paulo Johannesburg Moscow Hong Kong Have some sense of development levels of regions? Rich (Highly Developed) Developing (Middle Income), Poor (Less Developed) Know some cultural characteristics of regions major religions, languages, ethnicities etc. (3) Major Rivers (World Map) Rhine Amazon Yangtze Mississippi Ganges Nile Congo (6) Major Bodies of Water (World Map) Great Lakes Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea Red Sea Arabian Sea South China Sea Caribbean Sea Aral Sea Chicago Beijing Bombay (Mumbai) Mexico City Tehran Washington D.C. Lagos Calcutta Toronto Singapore (10) Major World Regions W. Map Middle East South East Asia South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Latin America Central America Caribbean Western Europe Eastern Europe Former USSR Oceania CREATE A KEY FOR THIS MAP Page 2 of 13
(11) Africa South Africa Madagascar Sudan Niger Algeria Nigeria Somalia Morocco Libya Egypt Kenya Chad Mali Congo/Zaire Rwanda Botswana Ethiopia Zimbabwe COUNTRY IDENTIFICATION BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHERE THESE COUNTRIES ARE ON A MAP (12) North America & South America (13) Asia United States Vietnam Argentina Thailand Guatemala Japan Bolivia India Cuba Singapore Brazil Burma Haiti Mongolia Chile China Honduras Cambodia Colombia Indonesia Costa Rica South Korea Ecuador Philippines Bahamas Peru Panama Other: Venezuela Australia Nicaragua New Zealand El Salvador Canada Mexico (14) Europe Ireland Russia Sweden Greece Romania Slovakia Czech Republic Norway Spain Croatia Yugoslavia Germany France United Kingdom Italy Poland Finland Bosnia (15) Southwest Asia Kuwait Syria Iraq Lebanon Saudi Arabia Israel Iran Jordan Turkey Afghanistan (16) UNITED STATES ( two maps) 1. All 50 US States with Capital cities 2. Regions (create a key to identify each region) Northeast Southeast Midwest Southwest Rocky Mountains Pacific West Online map quizzes and games: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/ http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/geography.asp http://jimspages.com/states.htm http://www.thecooler.info/travel/game1.html?3613=834f Click on start. My favorite game http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html Click on SHOW ME THE MAPS. http://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name.php Countries of the World Quiz Other resources http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ http://www.un.org/depts/cartographic/english/htmain.htm Page 3 of 13
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