GES 1980 - WORLD REGIONAL MAP QUIZZES
You should be able to locate the following places on a map of the region. For each map quiz, you will be
given the map of the region and 10 places from the following regional lists that you will be expected to
locate on the map.
Blank outline maps for each region are available on the Announcements page of the class website:
http://www.uccs.edu/chuber/ges-1980/announcements.html
Each region’s map is available as a .pdf under the heading, “Maps and Place Names for Quizzes.”
These maps are the exact ones that will be used for the map quizzes for each region.
The Links page of the class website (http://www.uccs.edu/chuber/ges-1980/announcements.html )
offers links to interactive sites where you can have fun as you practice your map skills.
Extra Credit: There will be a 1 point extra credit question on each quiz that will ask you to identify the
country in which some recent event in the news has occurred.
You are encouraged to submit the extra credit questions. E-mail me your submission no later than 24 hours
before the scheduled quiz. If your question is selected, you will receive 5 points extra credit for that quiz.
Missed Quizzes: Except in extraordinary circumstances, you are allowed to make up or retake only 1
missed quiz during the semester. Make-up/re-take consists of taking the appropriate lizardpoint quiz.
Go to the lizardpoint website: http://lizardpoint.com/geography/index.php
Select the appropriate lizardpoint quiz indicated on the place name list of the quiz you missed. Because
the lizardpoint regions do not match up with the textbook's regions, in some cases you will need to take
more than one lizardpoint quiz to replace the regional quiz you missed. Once you have selected the
appropriate lizardpoint quiz(zes), do the following:
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Select "strict test" then “start over”
Take the quiz or quizzes (without aids!).
Have your quizzes graded and print out or take a screen shot of the results.
You must take the appropriate quiz(zes) at least two times each. You may take it more than
two times if you wish to improve your score.
Turn in your top 2 scores for the appropriate quiz(zes). Your grade for this assignment will
consist of the average of the 2 (or 4) quizzes.
Quiz 1: EUROPE
The following countries and their capitals:
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Greece, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia,
Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro
Additional: Northern Ireland, Basque Region, Kosovo
Physical Features:
Rhine River, Seine River, Rhone River, Danube River, Thames River, Po River, North Sea, Baltic Sea,
Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Aegean Sea, English Channel, Bosporus Strait,
Strait of Gibraltar, Alps, Pyrenees, Apennines, Balkan Peninsula, Iberian Peninsula
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: European Countries
World Regional Place Names – pg. 1
Quiz 2: NORTH AMERICA
Countries: United States and Canada
States, Provinces and Territories: 50 U.S. States; 10 Canadian Provinces (Quebec, Ontario,
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta,
British Columbia); and, 3 Canadian Territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut)
Cities:
Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, Washington D.C., Miami, Chicago, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Seattle, Colorado Springs
Physical Features:
St. Lawrence River, Columbia River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Mississippi River, Rio Grande,
Colorado River, Arkansas River, 5 Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario), Great Salt Lake,
Bering Strait, Hudson Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Arctic Ocean, Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains,
Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cascade Mountains, Cape Cod, Long Island
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: USA: States and Canada: Provinces and Territories
Quiz 3: MIDDLE and SOUTH AMERICA
Countries, Islands, and States:
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti,
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Grenada, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles,
Hispaniola, Chiapas, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
Cities:
Mexico City, Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Guatemala City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Managua,
San Jose, Panama City, Havana, Caracas, Bogota, Quito, Lima, La Paz, Asuncion, Santiago, Buenos Aires,
Montevideo, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
Physical Features:
Rio Grande, Amazon River, Orinoco River, Rio de la Plata, Parana River, Panama Canal,
Lake Titicaca, Lake Maracaibo, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Bay of Campeche, Baja California,
Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes), Yucatan Peninsula, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Sierra Madre Oriental,
Sierra Madre Occidental, Andes Mountains, Atacama Desert, Pampas, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Central America and Part of Caribbean and South American Countries
Quiz 4: RUSSIA AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES
Countries, Republics, and Exclaves:
Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Chechen Republic, Kaliningrad
Cities:
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Groznyy, Minsk, Kiev, Chisinau,
Chernobyl (Chornobyl), Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku, Tashkent, Bishkek, Dushanbe
Physical Features:
Volga River, Ob River, Lena River, Lake Baikal (Baykal), Barents Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea,
Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Sea of Japan, Arctic Ocean, Bering Strait, Siberia, Kamchatka Peninsula,
Kuril Islands, Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Eastern Europe Countries and Middle East Countries
World Regional Place Names – pg. 2
Quiz 5: NORTH AFRICA/SOUTHWEST ASIA
Countries and Regions:
Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara, Sudan, South Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq,
Kurdistan
Cities:
Cairo, Khartoum, Riyadh, Mecca, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad
Physical Features:
Nile River, Blue Nile, White Nile, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea,
Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Suez Canal, Lake Nasser, Atlas Mountains, Sahara Desert, Sinai Peninsula,
Arabian Peninsula
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Western Asia Countries and Northern African Countries
Quiz 6: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Countries:
Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Burkina Faso,
Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia,
Eritrea, Djibouti, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Madagascar
Cities:
Nairobi, Kinshasa, Lagos, Dakar, Cape Town, Johannesburg
Physical Features:
Niger River, Congo River, Zambezi River, Lake Victoria, Lake Turkana, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi,
Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Kalahari Desert, Sahara Desert, Sahel, Cape of Good Hope, Horn of Africa
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: All Countries of Africa
Quiz 7: SOUTH ASIA
Countries:
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives
Cities and Regions:
Kolkata (Calcutta), New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Bangalore, Karachi, Islamabad, Dhaka, Kathmandu,
Colombo, Kabul, Kandahar, Kashmir
Physical Features:
Indus River, Brahmaputra River, Ganga (Ganges) River, Ganga Delta, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal,
Deccan Plateau, Western Ghats, Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Hindu Kush, Khyber Pass
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Asian Countries
World Regional Place Names – pg. 3
Quiz 8: EAST ASIA
Countries, Provinces, and Islands:
China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Xizang (Tibet), Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu,
Shikoku
Cities:
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Lhasa, Taipei, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, Seoul, Tokyo, Kobe-Osaka
Physical Features:
Huang He, Chang Jiang, Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, Gobi Desert,
Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Three Gorges Dam
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Asian Countries
Quiz 9: SOUTHEAST ASIA
Countries:
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei,
Singapore, East Timor
Cities:
Rangoon, Bangkok, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur
Physical Features:
Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River, Chao Phraya River, Mekong River, Red River, South China Sea,
Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java,
Borneo, Sulawesi, Luzon
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Asian Countries
Quiz 10: OCEANIA: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE PACIFIC
Countries, States, Territories and Islands:
Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu,
Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania,
Northern Territory
Cities:
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Wellington, Auckland
Physical Features:
Murray-Darling River, Great Australian Bight, Tasman Sea, Coral Sea, Indian Ocean,
Great Dividing Range, Great Barrier Reef
Lizardpoint Make-up Quiz: Oceania Countries and Australian States and Territories
World Regional Place Names – pg. 4