Found on most maps, this shows the cardinal directions and orients the map
What is the Compass Rose?
100
An area of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
100
New Brunswick lies within this landform region
What is the Appalachian Region?
100
This once "supercontinent" has since drifted apart
What is Pangea?
100
This term describe where a place is in relation to another place
What is Relative Location?
200
This circle of latitude is measured at 0⁰
What is the Equator?
200
a cluster or chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
200
This is the largest of Canada's landform regions and encompasses most of Northern Ontario and Quebec
What is the Canadain (Precambrian) Shield?
200
Rock formed by the accumulation and the consolidation of sand, pebbles and smaller bits of eroded rock
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This refers to the wearing down of the earth's features by wind, water or ice
What is erosion?
300
These are maps that portray a cultural trend
What are thematic maps?
300
This is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses
What is an isthmus?
300
This region is characterized by large freshwater reservoirs and the river through which they drain to the Atlantic
What is the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
rocks formed by the cooling and hardening of molten material called magma
What are igneous rocks?
300
This aspect of cartography refers to eliminating irrelevant
characteristics on a map to reduce complexity of other
characteristics
What is generalization?
400
This circle of latitude is measured at 66⁰
What is the Arctic Circle?
400
A type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons
What is Tundra?
400
These once shallow inland seas have been covered
with sediments from the Rocky Mountains and Canadian Shield making them well suited for agriculture
What are the Interior Plains?
400
Made from a preexisting rock after years of heat and pressure have been applied
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
These circles of latitude mark the northernmost and southernmost latitudes at which the sun may be seen directly overhead on the summer and winter solstices respectively
What are the Tropics? (Cancer & Capricorn)
500
This map projection is criticized because it distorts the size of continents; for example it makes Greenland look 5 times the size of Australia
What is the Mercator Projection?
500
forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake or reservoir
What is a delta?
500
Made up of a series of mountain ranges, including: The Coast Mountains, Columbia Mountains and the Rocky Mountains
What is The Western Cordillera?
500
The earth's crust is made up of these and they are slowly shifting due to heat from the mantle
What are tectonic plates? (crustal plates)
500
Name the 5 Great Lakes
What are: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior?