Create a country!

Today you will be making your own country using both Human and Physical
Geography! You will name your country, either give it borders or have it as an island,
give it 6 cities (including a capital), and 5 physical features along with 5 human features.
You will need a key, scale, and compass rose. Your map also needs to be neatly colored!
Some specifics:

Your key needs to elaborate on the physical and human geography

features. (For example, if you draw trees to represent a forest, your key
should reflect that.)
5 cities with 1 capital city are required, but carefully think about the
placement of your cities with the landforms and human developments.
(Would people want to live near water? What about near a mountain?)
Be able to explain why you put your capital city where it is, along with the
other physical and human features of your country. Place this explanation
on the back of your map. (Should cover every feature and city.)
Do not worry so much about the art, worry more about the placement of
your features.
Use your textbook to look at an example of a map if you need help.
See a list of SOME landforms on the back of this worksheet.
Computer paper and colored pencils will be provided.

The grading is as follows:

Compass Rose -- 5 points

Country Boundaries -- 5 points

Country Name -- 5 points

Capital city -- 5 points

Five Cities -- (2 points for each city) 10 points

Scale of Miles -- 10 points

Landforms -- (at least five different ones, five points each) 25 points

Human Features -- 5 points each (25 points)

Explanation of why landforms/cities are where placed. -- 10 points

Physical Features
Archipelago: a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.
Bay: a body of water that is partly enclosed by land (and is usually smaller than a gulf).
Butte: a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides.
Canyon: a deep valley with very steep sides - often carved from the Earth by a river.
Cave: a large hole in the ground or in the side of a hill or mountain.
Channel: a body of water that connects two larger bodies of water. A channel is also a part of a river or harbor that is
deep enough to let ships sail through.
Cove: A small, horseshoe-shaped body of water along the coast; the water is surrounded by land formed of soft rock.
Delta: a low, watery land formed at the mouth of a river. It is formed from the silt, sand and small rocks that flow
downstream in the river and are deposited in the delta. A delta is often (but not always) shaped like a triangle.
Desert: A desert is a very dry area.
Estuary: where a river meets the sea or ocean
Fjord: a long, narrow sea inlet that is bordered by steep cliffs.
Gulf: a part of the ocean (or sea) that is partly surrounded by land (it is usually larger than a bay).
Isthmus: a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses. An isthmus has water on two sides.
Lake: a large body of water surrounded by land on all sides.
Mountain: a very tall high, natural place on Earth - higher than a hill.
Ocean: a large body of salt water that surrounds a continent.
Peninsula: a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
Plain: flat lands that have only small changes in elevation.
Plateau: a large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land.
River: a large, flowing body of water that usually empties into a sea or ocean.
Strait: a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
Swamp: a type of freshwater wetland that has spongy, muddly land and a lot of water. Many trees and shrubs grow in
swamps.
Valley: a low place between mountains.
Volcano: a mountainous vent in the Earth's crust. When a volcano erupts, it spews out lava, ashes, and hot gases from
deep inside the Earth.
Waterfall: When a river falls off steeply, there is a waterfall.