Time Zones
Latitude and Longitude
Compasses
Types of Maps
Key Terms
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The number of time zones.
What is 24?
100
"Longitude and Latitude, it's easy if you have the right____".
What is atitude?
100
The place on a map where you'll find compass points.
What is a compass rose?
100
The type of maps that provide many types of information on one map.
What are general purpose maps?
100
Features of a globe that are transferred to a flat surface.
What is a map projection?
200
The line which is zero degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
200
The direction between North and West.
What is North-West?
200
The type of map that is useful if your require specific information about a place.
What are thematic maps?
200
A measurement on a map that represents an actual distance on the Earth's surface.
What is a scale?
300
The number of standard time zones in Canada.
What is 6?
300
It's measured north and south.
What is latitude?
300
The point that is the same as zero degrees on a compass.
What is 360 degrees?
300
The type of map that uses symbols to show a variety of features.
What are topographic maps?
300
The best map projection for providing a balance between size and shape.
What is the Winkel Tripel projection?
400
The man who came up with time zones.
Who is Sir Sanford Fleming?
400
This is measured east and west from the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
400
The four principal points of a compass.
What are the cardinal points.
400
Most atlas maps, wall maps, and road maps fall under this category.
What are general-purpose maps?
400
The grid of blue lines on a topographic map.
What is a map grid?
500
The former name for universal time.
What is Greenwich Mean Time?
500
The other name for the border between Canada and the U.S.
What is the 49th parallel?
500
The secondary points of a compass.
What are ordinal points?
500
The type of map that uses area symbols.
What are topographic maps?
500
A grid that uses letters and numerals to identify squares of a grid pattern on a map.
What is an alphanumeric grid?
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