Features of Land

1. Features of Land Basic Geography 1

2. A continent is a large land mass. • There are six continents on Earth: • Africa • Antarctica • Australia • Eurasia • North America • South America Eurasia is the largest continent. Australia is the smallest continent.

3. A continent can contain one or more countries/regions. There are 54 countries/regions on the continent of Africa.

4. North America and South America are large land masses. Are they continents? North America South America

5. An island is a body of land smaller than a continent. Madagascar is a very large island.

6. How many islands do you see on this map of Hawaii? 7 8 9

7. A peninsula is a piece of land attached on one side that sticks out into a body of water. The U.S. state of Florida is a large peninsula.

8. What bodies of water surround the Italian peninsula? Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea Alboran Sea and the Gulf of Lion Adriatic Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, and Ionian Sea

9. An isthmus is a strip of land that connects two larger land masses. Panama is one country/region on the isthmus that connects North America and South America.

10. On the map below of an imaginary world, draw a line from a label to a correct sample land feature. There is more than one correct answer for most of the labels. Peninsula Continent Isthmus Island