Canada Basics
This is the capital city of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
This line of latitude is found at 0°.
What is the Equator?
This line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This map feature explains what symbols mean.
What is a Legend?
This is a collection of maps.
What is an atlas?
Canada is bordered by this ocean on the west coast.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This line of longitude is found at 180°.
What is the International Date Line?
This line divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This shows direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This person combines math, geography and creative skills.
What is a cartographer?
This is the biggest Great Lake.
What is Lake Superior?
Longitude is measured east or west of this line.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This It is the furthest point north where the sun can be directly overhead at 23.5 Degrees North.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
A map that shows mountains, rivers, and landforms is called this.
What is a physical map?
Theses Seven continents make up our world?
North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica
This Canadian province is the largest by land area.
What is Quebec?
Lines of latitude run east–west and measure this.
What is distance north or south of the Equator?
This is the southernmost point on Earth sitting at 90 degrees south.
What is the South Pole?
A map that shows borders, cities, and countries is called this.
What is a political map?
Theses Five oceans make up our world?
What is the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Ocean?
This is the longest river in Canada.
What is the Mackenzie River?
Lines of longitude run north–south and meet at these two points.
What are the North and South Poles?
This is where the sun experiences at least one 24-hour period of total darkness during the winter, sitting at 66.5 degrees North.
What is the Arctic Circle?
This type of map uses colors or symbols to show the distribution of a single topic, such as population density or rainfall, across a region.
What is a Thematic Map?
The Prime Meridian runs through this city.
What is Greenwich, England?