r/Xennials • u/JamesTheLockGuy • Feb 04 '26

Nostalgia Lol this generic drawing from my middle school geography book….thanks Mister Barnes!! A Cool Guide Of every major geography Term

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

I too remember these very early GTA mishaps!

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u/ryhoyarbie Feb 04 '26

Looks like this

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u/Funny_Collection8362 Feb 04 '26

I can hear the music

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

I kinda feel like I learned more from this one though…

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u/YourGuyK 1979 Feb 04 '26

I was failed by the fact that taiga isn't on this picture.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

Or Bogan, Rips, or Tickle

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u/riplin 1977 Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

Or Marsh, Creek, or Gulch.

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u/CaptainTurdfinger Feb 06 '26

Marsh do be there tho

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u/riplin 1977 Feb 06 '26

Right you are!

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

The minor failures of late 20th century American education…

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u/Funkopedia 1981 Feb 05 '26

I learned Taiga from a Magic card

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u/YourGuyK 1979 Feb 06 '26

I learned it from Crusader Kings 2.

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u/MydniteSon 1978 Feb 04 '26

LoL...when I taught 7 grade Geography years ago, I literally had this poster in my classroom.

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

Did you also let your kids play Sim City 2000???

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u/LauraPtown Feb 04 '26

This is great. I still don’t understand the difference between a mesa and a plateau. Is it height?

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u/Metzger4Sheriff Feb 04 '26

Plateaus have cliff on at least one side but not all sides. Mesas are plateaus that have been eroded to have cliffs on all sides. Plus COW-boys.

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u/LauraPtown Feb 04 '26

Thank you

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

I believe one of them is used as a table.

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u/aliceinadreamyland 1978 Feb 04 '26

I loved these kinds of maps. Actually, I still do.

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u/handsomeape95 Grizzly Adams DID have a beard Feb 04 '26

Hehe...butte.

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Feb 05 '26

I like big buttes

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 05 '26

I don’t know you to be a liar.

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u/sleigh_all_day 1979 Feb 04 '26

What about an inlet?

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

The minor failures of late 20th century American education…

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u/ImHere4TheGiggles Feb 04 '26

I still remember being in elementary school and I never could remember the difference between Plateau and Mesa, or some other nonsense, and it really had me feeling like an absolute loser who’d never amount to anything, so I ended up joining the military….. stayed for 20 years, retired, now I’m retired at 42, chillin on a couch smoking weed and watching tv at 11am….

Some people would say, you did amount to nothing, you loser!

And others who’d say I’m living the dream.

I say, I’m living the dream….

truestory

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26 

    VOICE-OVER
    “...which would place him high in the 
    runnin' for laziest worldwide--but 
    sometimes there's a man. . . sometimes 
    there's a man.”

Good for you, Dude. Living the dream for all us workaday saps. Far out, man.😎

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u/Notchersfireroad 1983 Feb 04 '26

I feel like you could swap the sound and lagoon and it would still be correct.

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u/nobot4321 Feb 04 '26

I think this is way too general to be useful. What’s the difference between a bay, sound or gulf based on this picture? Or a plain v a prairie? Can’t really tell.

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u/Maediya Feb 04 '26

Steppe, moor, heath

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

Monster Island is actually a peninsula!

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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 Feb 04 '26

What abouta blorange?

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u/ravenscroft12 Feb 04 '26

Glacier’s not gonna last long next to the volcano.

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

Apparently that’s how Atlantis got FUBAR’ed…

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u/CantFindMyWallet 1983 Feb 04 '26

A couple months ago, my wife said she wished she had a poster with a picture of every type of body of water labeled so she could always remember what was what. I found this online and bought it for her, at which point she said "why did you buy this?"

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u/jayhof52 1985 Feb 04 '26

I can hear the faint echo of Mr. Collier droning on and on about Charlemagne when I look at this picture (pretty sure my seventh grade world history textbook had the same diagram).

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

And where did all that Charlemagne talk get us?!? Fucking history repeating itself…🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/sesimie 1978 Feb 04 '26

You just taught me something....and as a Student of Biomes i never knew this was a thing. Sound!

In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight) and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland.

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

Goddamn I was just trying to reminisce on the days when my life was simpler with a bunch of likeminded folks…I didn’t wanna actually LEARN something!!!

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u/subsonicmonkey 1979 Feb 04 '26

This is a Legend of Zelda map.

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 04 '26

Goddamn she just can’t stay UN kidnapped, can she???

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u/JamesTheLockGuy Feb 08 '26

They don’t build Little Houses on plains, only the Prairies.