Label the following countries on the Political Map

Label the following countries on the Political Map of the World • • • • United States Great Britain Russia France Germany China Japan North Korea India Pakistan Afghanistan Iraq • • • • Saudi Arabia Israel Turkey Egypt Sudan Tunisia Congo South Africa Nigeria Zimbabwe Cuba Venezuela Brazil

Locate the following places on the Physical Map of the World • • Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Sahara Desert Nile River Congo River Niger River • • Arabian Peninsula Tigris River Euphrates River Indus River Ganges River Gobi Desert Himalayan Mountains

Population Density

Population density in Africa, 2000

Average Annual Precipitation

World Map view from a satellite in space at night

SOME VOCABULARY • Cartogram: a map in which some thematic mapping variable – such as access to clean water or gross national product – is substituted for land area. The geometry or space of the map is distorted in order to convey the information of this alternate variable. • Thematic map: a map made to reflect a particular theme about a geographic area. Thematic maps can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation , or continent.

• Thematic maps can… • … provide specific information about particular locations. • … provide general information about spatial patterns. • … they can be used to compare patterns on two or more maps.

TYPES OF THEMATIC MAPS • choropleth map: a thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map, such as population density or per-capita income. • The choropleth map provides an easy way to visualize how a measurement varies across a geographic area or it shows the level of variability within a region.