Physical geog
This imaginary line at 0° latitude divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
The Equator
The box on a map that explains what its symbols mean
the legend (or key)
The “G” in GIS stands for this word
Geographic
The highest Tides in the world can be found along this water body
Bay of Fundy
Collecting data outdoors rather than in a lab or classroom
Fieldwork
The Earth’s thin, outermost solid layer is called this
The Lithoshpere
Lines on a topographic map connecting points of equal elevation
contour lines
GIS stores data in two main models:
Raster and Vector
The Tallest point in Canada can be found on this Mountain (bonus points if you can guess the exact height)
Mount Logan
The study of place names
Toponymy
This African river, flowing north into the Mediterranean, is traditionally called the world’s longest
The Nile
This 1569 projection, still used for navigation, makes Greenland look as big as Africa
Mercator projection
NDVI uses satellite imagery to measure this about plants
vegetation health (or greenness)
Ontario’s Bruce Trail follows this geological feature
Niagara Escarpment
Tobler's First Law of Geography
Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things
Marble and slate belong to this rock class, formed when existing rock is changed by heat and pressure
metamorphic rock
The prime meridian, 0° longitude, passes through this London observatory’s neighbourhood
Greenwich
LiDAR measures distance by timing the return of these
laser (light) pulses
In downtown Guelph, the Speed River meets this river
Eramosa River
This Prussian polymath, namesake of a Pacific ocean current, is often called the father of modern geography
Alexander von Humboldt
The Mohorovičić discontinuity marks the boundary between the crust and this layer
the mantle
A projection that preserves angles and local shapes, as Mercator does, is called this
conformal
The Landsat program is a joint effort of NASA and this U.S. agency
USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)
These are the northern most sand dunes found in the world, present in Northern Saskatchewan
Athabasca Sand Dunes
Halford Mackinder’s Heartland Theory placed the “pivot area” of world power in the interior of this continent
Eurasia