Where in the World?
This continent is the largest in both land mass and population.
What is Asia?
If it is 5:00 PM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, then it is this time in B.C.
What is 3:00 PM?
Based on years of information, this tells us what kind of weather or conditions to expect throughout the year.
What is Climate?
This horizontal line goes around the middle of the world, and cuts the world in half.
What is the Equator?
This is the study of making an interpreting maps.
What is Cartography?
Name all the continents in the world. (All names have to be given to be correct).
What is : North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia/Oceania, and Antarctica.
Dugald, Manitoba, is part of this time zone.
What is Central Standard Time?
This climatic zone can experience the sun at midnight.
What is the Polar?
This line runs through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Voluntary or involuntary, this is when a person moves to another country with the intention of staying there.
What is Migration?
The Prime Meridian and Equator both run through this continent.
What is Africa?
Time zones around the world are based off this single time zone where the Prime Meridian runs through.
What is UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, (I will accept slight variations).
This climatic zone experiences the most intense sunlight.
What is Tropical?
This very crooked and jagged line marks the boundary between one calendar day and the next.
What is the International Date Line?
This type of map projection lets us look at the borders of nations, provinces and cities.
What is political?
A mari usque ad mare is Canada's national motto, meaning "from sea to sea." This is because Canada is in between these two major oceans.
What is the Atlantic and Pacific?
Time zones typically are in intervals of +/- one hour, except for this wacky Canadian time zone, which has an half hour interval from its neighboring time zones.
What is Newfoundland Standard Time?
Vegetation zones are large areas where specific plant types will naturally grow due to these factors. (3 of them)
What are soil conditions, terrain, and weather patterns?
Due to two very important lines, the world is cut up into four of these sections.
What are Hemispheres?
Developed countries have these characteristics. (3 out of 5 must be given to be correct)
´More people have jobs
´Higher income per person
´Industry is more prominent
´People live longer
´Usually more independent
There are five major bodies of water: what are they? (All names have to be given in order to be correct)
What is Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and the Antarctic/Southern Ocean
Mr. Koblun traveled all the way from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Seoul, South Korea. He left at 10:00 AM on Monday, Nov 24th. What day and time did he arrive in South Korea?
When is 1:00 AM, Tuesday, Nov. 25th?
DAILY DOUBLE
Name all the main Vegetation zones (5).
What are:
Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Desert
Ice Sheet
At 23.5° North and South of the Equator, these are the lines around the world where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn?
This specific map projection is widely considered to be the standard for much of the world, despite it being from 1594 and distorting the North and South poles.
What is the Mercator Map Projection?