Mapping
What does a topographic map use to show features?
Symbols
What hold continents together?
Tectonic Plates
80 percent
What percent of Canadians live within 200 km of the US border?
80 percent
What is the calmest of a hurricane?
The eye
Lines of what start at the equator?
Latitude
All continents at one time were together as a super continent was called what?
Pangea
What is the main catch in the Pacific fishery?
Salmon
What percent of Canadians live 600 km away from the US border?
90 percent
A what needs to touch the ground before it is considered a tornado?
Funnel Cloud
Lines of what start at the prime meridian?
Longitude
Alfred Wegener proposed what theory?
Continental Drift theory
What is main catch in the Atlantic fishery?
Cod
What is the increase in the population of a city calculated by number of people?
Urban Growth
The Saffir - Simpson scale is used to measure the effect of what?
Hurricanes
how wide are time zones?
15 degrees
How many ice ages were there during the Cenozoic era?
4
Conventional
What streets have the largest capacity?
Expressways
London burned down in what year?
1666
What is the purpose of daylight savings time?
To have more light during working hours in the summer
What examines the political economics and strategic significance of geography?
Geopolitics
What is intensive agriculture?
What kind of routes are smaller and narrower than arteries?
Local Routes
What part of the earthquake occurs beneath the epicenter, the point at the surface of the earth where the earthquake occurs?
Hypocenter / Focus