Maps, Cartography & Navigation
This symbol found on maps shows the four cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west.
A compass rose.
Canada spans this many standard time zones.
Six standard time zones.
Canada has approximately this many terrestrial ecozones.
15 ecozones.
This is Canada's longest river.
The Mackenzie River.
A glacier is a large mass of this that moves slowly over land.
Ice.
Cartographers use this imaginary line at 0° latitude as the starting point for measuring north and south positions on Earth.
The Equator.
This time zone is used in most of Ontario and Quebec.
Eastern time.
The Boreal Shield ecozone is dominated by this forest.
The boreal forest.
These mountains stretch through British Columbia and Alberta.
The Rocky Mountains.
Glaciers shape landscapes through this process of wearing away rock and soil.
Erosion.
This type of map shows elevational changes.
A topographical map.
Newfoundland is famous for being offset from Atlantic Time by this amount.
30 minutes.
This ecozone includes much of southern Ontario and supports Canada's highest population density.
The Mixedwood plains.
Canada shares the world's longest international border with this country.
The United States.
A glacier's accumulation zone is where snowfall exceeds this.
Ablation.
This line of longitude at 0° passes through Greenwich, England and is used to measure east-west positions.
The Prime Meridian.
The farther east you travel across Canada, clocks generally move in this direction.
Forward.
The Prairies ecozone is best known for producing these major crops.
Wheat and canola.
The Canadian Shield is primarily composed of this type of ancient rock.
Igneous and metamorphic rock.
The movement of glaciers helped create thousands of Canada's lakes in this geologic region.
The Canadian Shield.
The coordinate system made up of latitude and longitude is known by this name.
The geographic grid.
The Earth rotates approximately this many degrees every hour, creating time zones.
15 degrees.
Permafrost is ground that remains frozen for at least this length of time.
Two consecutive years.
This large group of islands forms most of Canada's Arctic region.
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
This process causes floating ice shelves and icebergs to break away from glaciers.
Calving.