Maps
This type of map shows the elevation of physical features such as mountains, hills and valleys.
What is a topographic map?
This imaginary line can be found at 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
570 Shaw Street is an example of this type of location
Absolute location
The number of time zones in the world
What is 24?
This type of geographic thinking asks geographers to consider the importance of a place or region
What is 'Spatial Significance'?
This map feature is important for showing the ratio of distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the earth
What is scale?
This imaginary line can be found at 0° longitude
The Prime Meridian
Humans chopping down a forest to make room for a housing development is an example of this theme
What is human environment interaction?
The inventor of time zones
Who is Sir Sanford Fleming
What are the 4 main perspectives that one considers when trying to see the different sides of a geographic problem?
What is 'Social, Economic, Environmental, and Political'?
The Mercator map projection tends to distort this
What is land size (area)?
Canada can be found in these two hemispheres
What is North and West?
The shipping of oil across the globe is an example of this theme
What is movement?
The number of time zones in Canada
What is 6?
What concept of thinking would a geographer be using when weighing the financial benefits of tourism in the opening of the northwest passage vs. the potential environmental hazards of oil spills?
What is 'Geographic Perspectives'?
On the Equal Area Map (also known as the Peter's Projection), the land area is accurate, but this aspect is distorted
What is shape?
Ho Ho Ho! The North Pole can be found at this latitude.
What is 90° N?
Landforms, politics and climate are three ways that this theme can be defined by
What is region?
The only time zone in Canada that is not an hour ahead or behind the other time zones.
What is Newfoundland Standard Time?
What concept of thinking would a geographer use when trying to understand how the building of a new highway could impact the migratory routes of caribou?
What is 'interrelationships'?
The mercator map is the oldest map projection and it was effective for use for this purpose
What is navigation?
This is the maximum possible longitude
What is 180°?
Animals, plants, people, and other unique factors all make up this theme
What is place?
If it is 5:00 pm in Toronto, it is this time in Vancouver
What concept of thinking would a geographer use when trying to analyze similarities in how coral reefs around the world have changed over the last 5 years?
What is 'Patterns & Trends'?