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Geography
Latitude Lines
Longitude Lines
The Five Themes
Tools
100
Name the three Prairie Provinces.
What are Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta?
100
Latitude line that circles the Earth exactly half way between the North pole and the South pole
What is the Equator?
100
What is the line called that lies at 180 degrees
What is the International Date Line?
100
This theme includes a location's physical and human characteristics
What is Place
100
A round model of the Earth
What is a globe?
200
The earth travels around the sun in an oval shaped path called
What is an Orbit?
200
The name of the latitude lines called Tropics
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
200
Units to measure the distance between meridians and parallels
What are degrees?
200
This theme stresses how people affect their environment and how the environment affects them
What is Human-Environment Interaction
200
Size of the places showed in a map or globe
What is scale?
300
It is Canada's most western Province.
What is a British Columbia?
300
Latitude lines are also called these because they are the same distance apart.
What are Parallels?
300
These lines circle the Earth from north to south
What are longitude lines?
300
This theme explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is Movement?
300
Used on a map to show direction
What is a Compass Rose?
400
The number of time Zones in Canada
What is 6?
400
Latitude Line located a 66 degrees North
What is the Arctic Circle
400
Another name for the longitude lines
What are meridians?
400
Geographers use this theme to make comparisons. They use a common characteristic to divide locations into
What is Regions?
400
An example is sw, nw, se, ssw etc.
What are Ordinal Points?
500
Province that is shaped like a rectangle
What is Saskatchewan?
500
Latitude line located at 66 degrees South
What is the Antarctic Circle?
500
Longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England, is 0 Degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This theme is divided in two, and helps geographers to locate places
What is Absolute and Relative Location
500
It tells the cardinal directions, which are north, south, east, and west
What is a Compass Rose?