Latitude and Longitude
These are also called meridians.
What are lines of longitude?
The name of the process by which glaciers form.
What is glaciation?
This type of map uses a country's population to determine the size of it on the map.
What are isodemographic maps?
This term refers to inhabited land with permanent human settlement, agriculture, and other economic activity.
What is "ecumene"?
The capital of Prince Edward Island.
What is Charlottetown?
This has a latitude of 0°.
What is the equator?
These play a critical role in regulating Earth's temperature by reflecting solar radiation.
What are glaciers?
A two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional landscape that uses brown contour lines to depict elevation.
What is a topographic map?
The slow, continuous geological process through which the three main types of rocks on Earth form.
What is the rock cycle?
On June 3, 2025, when it was 3:34 p.m. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this was the time in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
What is 6:04 p.m.?
This meridian is the reference point for this time standard.
What is Universal Time?
These are tectonically stable areas that are composed of exposed Precambrian crystalline bedrock.
What are shields?
This is the "typical map" that shows governmental boundaries, such as countries, provinces/states, cities, capital cities, major roads, etc.
What is a political map?
A framework for establishing and recording land boundaries.
What is a survey system?
You use this on a map to determine the actual, real-world distance.
What is scale?
The distance, rounded to the nearest kilometre, between Cape Town, South Africa, which is located at 33°55'S, 18°25'E and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is located at 52°8'N, 106°41'W.
What is 16,854 kilometres?
The number of degrees of latitude at which the Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn, are found.
What are 23.5°N and 23.5°S (respectively)?
These maps show an area's natural features like mountains, rivers, lakes, and deserts, using colours, shading, and labels to represent elevation, landforms, and water bodies.
What are physical maps?
A large urban area and its surrounding economically and socially integrated municipalities.
What is a census metropolitan area?
This type of map uses an aximuthal projection centred on the North Pole, displaying the Arctic and surrounding regions from a bird's-eye view.
What is a north polar projection map?
Cross this, from west to east, and you will go back a day.
What is the international date line?
The five major types of climate.
What are tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar?
What are Mercator maps?
Massive, irregularly shaped slabs of rock that make up the Earth's outer shell.
What are tectonic plates?
The minimum number of satellites orbiting the globe that GPS requires.
What is 24?