Comparative Cultures and Geography Name:______________________________________
Atlas Worksheet Date:______________________ Per:________
Directions: Respond to the questions on this worksheet. You may work alone or quietly in pairs to complete your answers. These questions are to be answered using the maps found in our classroom set of Goode’s Atlas.
Time Zones
1. When it is 6:00 p.m. in San Francisco, what time is it in Mexico City? What time is it in Rome?
2. How many different time zones are there in the 50 United States?
Population and Rate of Natural Increase
3. Which country is more populous, North or South Korea?
4. Name five countries represented that have the lowest rate of natural population increase.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
5. Name five countries represented that have the highest rate of natural population increase.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
World Political
6. Using the Comparative Land Areas chart found near the bottom of the page, what are the three largest countries in the world (excluding Antarctica, which is a continent) in descending order (from largest to smallest)?
1. 2. 3.
7. Using the Comparative Populations Chart found near the bottom of the page, what are the three most populous countries in the world, in descending order?
1. 2. 3.
8. Why does the country of Russia have a dashed vertical line running through it on both of these charts? (Follow the dashed line all the way through the chart)
World Physical
9. What is the highest point of elevation in the Western Hemisphere (North and South America)? See the chart at the bottom of the page.
Climate Regions (Use the color from the key to identify)
10. In which climate region is Castro Valley classified?
11. In which climatic region is Mexico City classified?
World Population Density
12. What region of the United States is the most densely populated? ( for example, north-west or south)
13. What region of the United States is the least densely populated?
Age and Sex Composition
14. What percentage of the Japanese population (males + females) is 35-39?
15. Which age group in the United States made up the largest percentage of the population in the year 1990?
16. Are there more women or men in the United States?
Birth Rate/Death Rate
17. What is the life expectancy of men in Nigeria?
18. What is the life expectancy of women in Nigeria?
19. What is the life expectancy of men in the United States?
20. What is the life expectancy of women in the United States?
21. How does the infant mortality rate in the United States compare with the infant mortality rate in Japan?
Population Increase/Urbanization
22. Is the natural rate of population increase greater in developed or developing nations?
23. Would you characterize Mexico as a rural or urban nation? Why?
Gross Domestic Product
24. What was the Per Capita GDP for the countries of the United States, Mexico, and China?
USA: Mexico: China:
Language and Religions
25. Identify three different languages spoken in Asia.
1. 2. 3.
26. Identify four different religions practiced in Africa.
1. 2. 3. 4.