Geography

Mapping

100

What does a topographic map use to show features?

Symbols

200

Lines of what start at the equator?

Latitude 

300

Lines of what start at the prime meridian?

Longitude 

400

how wide are time zones?

15 degrees

500

What is the purpose of daylight savings time?

To have more light during working hours in the summer

Geology

100

What hold continents together?

Tectonic Plates 

200

All continents at one time were together as a super continent was called what?

Pangea 

300

Alfred Wegener proposed what theory?

Continental Drift theory

400

How many ice ages were there during the Cenozoic era?

4

500

What examines the political economics and strategic significance of geography?

Geopolitics 

Natural Resources

100

What percent of Canada's minerals are exported?

80 percent 

200

What is the main catch in the Pacific fishery?

Salmon

300

What is main catch in the Atlantic fishery?

Cod

400

Oil is a source of energy, what kind of energy source I it. 

Conventional 

500

What is intensive agriculture?

Intensive agriculture uses a lot of labour, machinery and fertiliser on small areas. 

Urban Places

100

What percent of Canadians live within 200 km of the US border?

80 percent 

200

What percent of Canadians live 600 km away from the US border?

90 percent 

300

What is the increase in the population of a city calculated by number of people?

Urban Growth

400

What streets have the largest capacity?

Expressways

500

What kind of routes are smaller and narrower than arteries?

Local Routes

Natural Disasters

100

What is the calmest of a hurricane?

The eye

200

A what needs to touch the ground before it is considered a tornado?

Funnel Cloud

300

The Saffir - Simpson scale is used to measure the effect of what?

Hurricanes

400

London burned down in what year?

1666

500

What part of the earthquake occurs beneath the epicenter, the point at the surface of the earth where the earthquake occurs?

Hypocenter / Focus