Geography

Concepts to cover

1. The five oceans and their extents; Southern Ocean
2. Red Sea (no rivers, negligible rain, high salinity, Bab el Mandeb) and Persian Gulf (Strait of Hormuz; Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Iraq, Iran depend on it)
3. Mediterranean and its arms: Adriatic (Italy, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia), Aegean, Ionian, Tyrrhenian; countries on its shores including Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey; Jordan and Iraq have no Mediterranean coast
4. Black Sea (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia), Caspian (Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan), Baltic, North Sea (UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France)
5. Straits: Hormuz, Malacca, Bab el Mandeb, Gibraltar, Bosporus and Dardanelles, Dover, Bering, Magellan, Palk, Ten Degree Channel, Lombok, Sunda
6. Suez and Panama canals; Sumed pipeline from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean; Kiel canal
7. Major gulfs and bays: Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Carpentaria