Names and Places
What is the Capital of Canada?
Ottawa
What country runs along Canada's boarder?
USA
What does "GPS" stand for?
Global Positioning System
What quadrant is Canada located in?
Northwest
What is the name of the line of Latitude at 0 degrees?
Equator
Where can I find Yellowknife?
Northwest Territories
Name the 5 "Great" Lakes located in, or around, Ontario
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
What program did we use to create our digital maps?
ArcGIS
What is the name of the "index" at the back of an Atlas?
Gazetter
What is the name of the line of Longitude at 0 degrees?
Prime Meridian
What is the Capital of Nova Scotia?
Halifax
What are the three oceans surrounding Canada?
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic
What are the three main parts of GPS?
Ground Station, receiver, satellites
What are the three ways to represent a scale on a map?
Linear, Statement, and Fraction
What are lines of latitude called?
Parallels
Is Prince Edward Island located on the East or West coast?
East
Name the four points on the compass
North South East West
How many cm are in a km?
100k
What are the 3 types of geography?
Human, Physical, Environmental
What "degree" on a compass is NE?
45 degrees
Ms. Jones currently lives in Ontario. What other province did she live in?
British Columbia.
Name two "major" bays in Canada.
Bay of Fundy, James, Bay, Hudson Bay
What country launched the first satellite?
Russia
What is the latest province or territory to be added to Canada?
Nunavut.
Name a country located in the SE quadrant of the world.
Australia, ect