Introduction to Geography
Geography is the study of the Earth’s physical and human systems and the relationship between them. What are the two main focuses of geography?
What are physical geography and human geography?
Map scale shows the relationship between a distance measured on a map and the actual distance where?
What is on the Earth's surface?
North, South, East, and West are known as the What on a Compass Rose?
What are cardinal points?
How many provinces and how many territories make up Canada?
What are 10 provinces and 3 territories?
These types of maps give us a broad understanding of the location and features of an area?
Canada is located in thes hemispheres
What is the Northern and Western hemisphere?
Scale can be shown on a map in three distinct ways. Name all three types of scale
What are direct statement scale, line scale (linear scale), and representative fraction (RF) scale?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest are examples of these types of compass points.
What are ordinal points?
Name the national capital city of Canada located in the province of Ontario.
What is Ottawa?
These types of maps use contour lines to depict elevation
What is Topographic Maps?
What Does the Abbreveation BOLTS stand for
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scales
"1 cm to 10 km" or "1 cm = 10 km" uses words to describe distance on a map. What type of scale is this?
What is a direct statement scale (or verbal statement)?
If you are standing at North and turn $90 degrees clockwise, which cardinal direction are you facing?
What is East
Canada shares a Land Border with how many countries?
What is 1 the United States? I will also accept 2 for Denmark
These types of map depict one topic of theme using statistical data
What is a thematic Map?
Name two potential careers in geography mentioned in your introductory lesson.
What are urban planner, cartographer, GIS specialist, demographer, climatologist, environmental management, or park ranger
This type of scale acts like a special ruler printed on the map that is divided into equal units of distance
What is a line scale (or linear scale)?
What is the exact opposite compass direction of South-West (SW)
What is North-East (NE)
How many Time zones are there in Canada
what is 6?
These types of Maps are often very detailed think city map
What is a Large Scale Map?
What is the Starting point for Latitude lines?
What is the Prime Meridian?
In a Representative Fraction (RF) scale written as $1:50,000$, what is the first term always equal to, and what does it represent?
What is 1, and it represents the distance on the map?
If you fly directly from Toronto to Montreal, in which general direction are you traveling?
What is Northeast
What is the northernmost territory in Canada, which was officially created in 1999?
What is Nunavut?
These Types of Maps are less detailed but depict larger areas of land - think world map