Map Features
What do we call the part of a map that shows directions (N, S, E, W)?
What is a compass?
Which landform is rocky and has many lakes?
What is the Canadian Shield?
What does population mean?
The number of people living in a place
Which Great Lake is closest to us?
What is Lake Ontario?
Which job is most common in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands: farmer or miner?
What is a farmer?
What tells us what symbols on a map mean?
What is a legend?
Which landform is flat and has many farms and cities?
What is the St.Lawrence/Great Lakes Lowlands?
What is population density?
How many people live in an area
How many Great Lakes are there?
What are 5?
Which job is common in the Canadian Shield?
What is a Miner? (also forestry, fishing)
What is the title of a map used for?
To tell us what the map is about.
Why is it hard to build cities in the Hudson Bay Lowlands?
Because the land is wet, swampy, and soft
Do cities usually have high or low population density?
High
What type of water is in the Great Lakes?
What is freshwater?
Why don’t many people farm in the Canadian Shield?
Too rocky / poor soil
If you move right on a map, which direction are you going?
What is East?
Which type of landform is the highest landform on Earth?
What are mountains?
Which landform has the highest population in Canada?
What is the St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Lowlands?
What is the name of the largest Great Lake?
What is Lake Superior?
Name 2 type of jobs that are common in cities?
Office jobs, stores, services, construction
What do the big, capitalized words on a map usually represent?
What is the name of the Country?
Name FOUR different types of landforms
Mountains, volcanoes, islands, river, beach, hill, valley...
Give THREE reason why many people live in the St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Lowlands.
flat land, jobs, farming, cities, water..
Name THREE ways people use the Great Lakes.
Drinking water / transportation / fishing / recreation...
Why do different landforms have different jobs?
Because the land and environment are different