Maps
A representation of the earth's features drawn on a flat surface.
What is a map?
This term refers to the process of collecting information about an object or area without making physical contact with it.
What is remote sensing?
This is used to extend daylight hours into the evening when most people are awake.
What is daylight saving time?
This climate type experiences greater temperature extremes between summer and winter, with hot summers and cold winters, due to its location away from large bodies of water that could moderate temperatures.
What is a continental climate?
The study of the natural environment.
What is physical geography?
The relationship between the distance on a map and the actual distance on the earth.
What is a scale?
Name 3 uses for remote sensing.
study weather and climate, agriculture, map making, mineral exploration, mapping sea ice, environmental purposes, geological events
This imaginary line, located at 0° longitude, divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and serves as the reference point for timekeeping.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This type of climate is characterized by mild temperatures throughout the year, with relatively small temperature variations between seasons, due to the moderating effect of large bodies of water like oceans or seas.
The study of human interaction with the natural environment.
What is human geography?
Provides many types of information on one map.
What is a general purpose map?
This type of platform collects remote sensing data from space and is often used for global environmental monitoring and weather forecasting.
What is a satelitte?
If you cross this line moving westward you add a day.
What is the International Date Line?
This type of rainfall occurs when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain range, cooling and condensing to form clouds and precipitation.
What is relief rainfall?
This ecozone has flat rolling plains, long cold winters, hot summers.
What is the prairie ecozone?
Title, Legend, Scale, Direction, Borders
What are the basic features of a map?
This process, used in GPS to determine a location, involves measuring distances to at least three satellites and using the known locations of the satellites to calculate a precise position on Earth.
What is triangulation?
Used to extend daylight hours into the evening when most people are awake.
What is daylight saving time?
This type of precipitation occurs when the sun heats the Earth's surface, causing warm air to rise, cool, and condense, leading to rain or thunderstorms.
What is convectional precipitation?
A line following a route where observations are made.
What is a transect?
North, South, East, West
What are the principal points on a compass?
Launched in 1995, this Canadian satellite system uses synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to provide all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation, primarily for environmental monitoring, disaster management, and resource management.
What is RADARSAT?
This time zone, observed in Waskada, Manitoba, is 6 hours behind UTC during standard time and 5 hours behind UTC during Daylight Saving Time.
What is the Central Time Zone?
A large low pressure system that forms when a warm air mass and a cold air mass collide.
What is cyclonic precipitation?
Landforms, climate, natural vegetation, soils, wildlife, human activities.
What are factors that determine an ecozone?