A bounded area; a locality such as a town or a city.
What is a place?
100
The two methods to describe location.
What are relative and absolute?
100
Define movement.
What is the flow of people, products, information and elements of nature.
100
The 4 hemispheres that Earth is divided into.
What are northern, southern, western and eastern?
100
Name 2 advantages of public transit for a city.
What are: - reduces traffic; uses less energy; reduces pollution (better for environment); less expensive (saves driver money)?
200
An object or landform that identifies a place.
What is a landmark?
200
The description of the location of a place in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
200
The volume of people, products and information that move along a system.
What is flow?
200
Imaginary lines drawn across the globe from the north pole to the south pole.
What are lines of longitude?
200
How to find map location using an alpha-numeric grid.
What is locate the letter along one edge and the number along the other then locate the square where the letter an number meet?
300
Natural features or features that people have built.
What are physical characteristics?
300
The description of the location of a place independent of any other place; a specific location
What is absolute location?
300
These are called "systems".
What is a pattern of routes that connect places together.
300
The equator is an example of one, others run parallel to it.
What are lines of latitude?
300
One pro and one con for using ships over trucks and train to move freight.
What is they are the most energy-efficient form of transport, but are limited by freeze-up of water during the Canadian winter.
400
Features of the people in a place, including: language, culture, politics.
What are human characteristics?
400
A four- or eight-pointed symbol showing the major directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
400
Explain public transit.
What is a transportation system that includes buses, subway trains, streetcars and commuter trains?
400
A legend.
What is a reference tool on a map where the meanings of symbols used on the map are given?
400
Describe 2 physical and 2 human characteristics of Burlington.
What is: Physical - lake, Burlington Mall; Human - English speaking; many Catholics/Christians; various nationalities
500
Geographers have cut the world into halves to help with the determining of location.
What are hemispheres?
500
Lines that divide a map into squares, with numbers along the top/bottom and letters along the sides.
What is an alphanumeric grid?
500
The container freight system is a system for moving products that uses standard-sized metal boxes that attach to these 3 types of transportation.
What are trucks, trains and ships?
500
If a scale on a map says: 1cm=100km, 50 cm on the map would be this far in real life.
What is 5000km?
500
One pro and one con of using trucks over trains as a freight system for moving product.
What is trucks can go anywhere even in winter months and are not restricted to fixed routes; trucks are heavy energy users and cause traffic along major highways.