Map Skills
This is the figure on a map that shows N, E, S, W and their intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
This imaginary line separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This landform region includes British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. Hint: You're in it right now!
What is the Western Cordillera?
This is an area that has at least one unifying characteristic.
What is a region?
This landform region includes Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
What are the Appalachians?
This part of a map explains the symbols, shading, and colours used.
What is a legend?
These imaginary lines run east to west on a world map.
What are lines of latitude?
This landform region is known as Canada's "Bread Basket," with large rolling hills, deep river valleys, and excellent farmland.
What are the Interior Plains?
This is a place's location relative to other things.
What is relative location?
What are the capitals of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskchewan?
What is Victoria, Edmonton, and Regina?
This tells you the ratio between the distance on a map and the actual distance on Earth's surface.
What is map scale?
These imaginary lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
This region is characterized by jagged mountain peaks and Canada's "icy watch towers" in the far north.
What are the Innuitian Mountains?
This type of location gives the exact measurement of longitude and latitude.
What is absolute location?
What are the capitals of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut?
What is Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Iqaluit?
Name the five major oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern Oceans?
This is the 0° line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the smallest Canadian landform region but contains the largest population.
What are the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
True or False: A place is defined by its physical and human characteristics. Mountains, rivers, and plains are physical characteristics, while language, ethnicity, and religion are human characteristics.
What is True?
What is the capital of Canada?
Name the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia/Oceania, and Antarctica?
At 66.5° South latitude, this circle marks the boundary of the Antarctic region.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
More than half of Canada—approximately 4,800,000 km²—is covered by this landform region.
What is the Canadian Shield?
What theme of geography has to do with the spread of people, ideas and goods?
What is Movement?
Name the capitals of Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia?
What is Charlottetown, St.John's and Halifax?