Canadian Geography
This city is the capital of Alberta
What is Edmonton?
An invisible horizontal line dividing the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
This type of map shows large amounts of detail, but only a small area
What is a large scale map?
A landform that rises above its surroundings and has a flat summit (top). It is usually less than 1,000 ft tall.
What is a hill?
Clayton Heights Secondary is located at 7003 188 St, Surrey, BC, is an example of this type of location.
What is absolute location?
This city is the capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
These lines run parallel to one another and never touch
What are lines of latitude?
This ratio indicates that 1 cm on the map is equal to 3 km on the ground.
What is 1:300,000?
In The Lion King, Scar lures Mufasa into this landform by telling him that Simba is in danger.
What is the gorge?
A drawing on a map that shows the direction of places on the map
What is a compass rose?
This body of water lies directly north of Ontario.
What is Hudson Bay?
An invisible vertical line passing through Greenwich, England that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
This type of map shows small amounts of detail, but a very large area.
What is a small scale map?
This landform rises significantly above its surroundings, often exhibiting steep slopes and a defined peak.
What is a mountain?
The movie Aladdin is set in this fictional city.
What is Agrabah?
These are the three Canadian territories
What are the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut?
Most of this musical is set roughly 40°N, 74°W in New York City.
What is Hamilton?
If the given map scale on a map was 1cm = 40km, and you measured the distance between Sunnyville and Greentown to be 14cm, what is the ground distance between Sunnyville and Greentown?
What is 560km?
This landform forms a "V" shape, with a narrow bottom and a wide top.
What is a valley?
This is the smallest Canadian province
What is Prince Edward Island?
Charlottetown serves as the capital of this Canadian province.
Coordinates are always written in this format
What is latitude, longitude
A 1:560,000 map scale means this in words.
What is 1 unit on the map = 560,000 units on the ground?
This is a flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
What is a plateau?
The next summer Olympics will be held in 2028 in this city, sitting at 34°N, 118°W
What is Los Angeles?