Building Geographic Literacy: An Interactive Approach - Softcover

This combined text and interactive workbook enables students to learn place geography and, as they learn it, to reinforce and apply their knowledge by constructing thematic maps, which convey physical, economic, cultural or political characteristics of places.

Innovative in its approach, this interactive book enables readers to learn place geography and, as they learn it, to reinforce and apply their knowledge by constructing thematic maps which convey physical, economic, cultural, or political characteristics of places. Topics include: The Significance of Place; The Frame of Reference: Earth's Location Grid, Time Zones, and the International Date Line; Land and Seas; The United States and Canada; Europe; Russia and the Newly Independent States: A Region in Transformation; Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Africa South of the Sahara; The Middle East and North Africa; Latin America.