Basics
What are imaginary, horizontal lines running across the world?
The number of provinces in Canada
What is 10?
The largest continent
Aspects of culture
What are traditions, clothing, languages, food, etc.
geo language for country vs. city
what is rural vs. urban
Earth's supercontinent was named _____
What is Pangea?
5 Great Lakes
What is HOMES? Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
The body of water between Newfoundland + Morocco
Where is the Atlantic Ocean?
Patterns of movement among people or animals
What is migration?
Long lines of settlements, often used for transportation routes.
What are linear settelments?
The suns rays are strongest here
Where is between the 2 tropics? (Cancer + Capricorn)
Answers will vary (UK, Germany, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy)
Economic systems created by humans
What is money?
Characteristics of urban settlements
What are big cities, tall buildings, high population densities, transportation networks, increased culture, etc.
The study of geography
What is the study of places, people and their interactions with environments?
Fredericton and Iqaluit
Where are the capital cities of NB and Nunavut?
Opposite of the International Date Line
Where is the Prime Meridian?
Tropical, dry, temperate, continental, polar
What are climate zones?
Settlements in urban areas that center around shared resources.
What are clustered settlements?
4 reasons to study geography
Answers may vary (travel, gives news context, understand history, build interests, build navigation skills, understand borders/politics, learn about culture, learn about resources)
The number of time zones in Canada (bonus for Peterborough's TZ)
What is 6? What is Eastern Standard Time?
Number of observed time-zones in China
What is 1? Beijing-standard time is use across the whole country.
A large mountain range stretching from Canada to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Settlements with the lowest population densities.
What are scattered settlements?