Maps
Rocks
Facts
Landforms
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100
This design feature on most maps orients the reader to which way is north
What is a compass rose?
100
These rocks are the result of cooled lava on the earth's surface.
What are igneous rocks?
100
An underwater earthquake can cause this potentially catastrophic event
What is a tsunami?
100
This landform region is marked by rich soil and wide open prairies
What are the interior plains?
100
The Hopewell Rocks outside of Fundy National Park are an example of this type of rock
What is Sedimentary Rock?
200
These maps highlight the display of a human or social trend on a landscape
What are thematic maps?
200
This is the process of weathering over time that wears away rocks and soil
What is erosion?
200
Name for the line of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees North
What is The Arctic Circle?
200
Most of Northern Ontario and Quebec make up this landform region
What is The Canadian Shield?
200
This scale is used to measure the strength and intensity of earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale?
300
The art and science of mapmaking
What is Cartography?
300
Sandstone is an example of this type of rock
What is Sedimentary Rock?
300
Before hundreds of millions of years of continental drift, the earth's continents were close together as this "super-continent"
What is Pangea?
300
This is a narrow piece of land connecting tow larger landmasses
What is an isthmus?
300
The region of the world that lies south of 23 1/2 degrees North and north of 23 1/2 South
What are the Tropics?
400
Maps that show man-made boundaries, such as between nations or provinces
What are political maps?
400
These rocks are formed by millions of years of heat and pressure deep in the earth's crust
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
This layer of the earth is found outside of the core and beneath the surface crust
What is the Mantle?
400
The triangular area wetland where a river flows into the sea
What is a delta?
400
This map projection is criticized because it over and under-represents the size of some countries
What is the Mercator Projection?
500
These maps display elevations across a landscape
What are physical maps?
500
Basalt and obsidian are examples of this type of rock
What is Igneous?
500
Line of longitude representing 0 degrees
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Where extreme cold hinders tree growth and the landscape is dominated by scrubby brush and short grasses.
What is Tundra?
500
Nickname for an area of the Southern Pacific where there is a great deal of seismic and volcanic activity
What is the Ring of Fire?
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