KEY - mountain plateau
World - desert grasslands
basin river
Physical Map
Major Physical Regions of the World – Using a Key
STEP 1 - Create symbols for the items in the key of Waterways: Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
the map. Be careful and think, you will need to put Indian Ocean
them on the map in a later step. Arctic Ocean
Southern Ocean
STEP 2 - Using the list from the column on the
Mediterranean Sea
right, label the waterways on the map. Write Caribbean Sea
these labels in blue. Use a physical world map
Nile River
from your textbook to help. Amazon River
STEP 3 - Using the list from the column on the Landforms: Rocky Mountains
right, label the landforms on the map. Write these Andes
Ural Mountains
labels in green. Use a physical world map from Alps
your textbook to help. Himalayas
STEP 4 - Use the symbols you created in the key Amazon Basin
during STEP 1 and draw them onto the map with Sahara
Kalahari Desert
the appropriately labeled landforms or waterways.
Gobi
STEP 5 - Label the continents on the map. Northern European Plain
Siberia