Canada Map And Lat/long Flashcards
Yukon
Whitehorse
Northwest territories
Yellow knife
Nunavut
Iqaluit
British Columbia
Victoria
Alberta
Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Regina
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Ontario
Toronto
Quebec
Quebec City
New Brunswick
Fredericton
Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Newfoundland
St. John’s
Capital of Canada
Ottawa
What countries have land claims in Canada’s north?
Norway
Us
Russia
Finland
Denmark
Iceland
Sweden
Canadá
How many kilometres is Canada’s O.E.Z
What is it?
370 km
It is a money making area for Canada where no foreigners are aloud without government permission.
What degrees are Canada’s boundary?
90n 140w 49n 42n 43w
5 Great Lakes
3 oceans
Superior Michigan Heron Erie Ontario
Arctic
Atlantic
Pacific
How many time zones are there?
How many degrees the earth move every hour?
24
15
What are the 3 sub topics in the textbook?
The physical environment
The human environment
Issues in that region
What are three types of boundaries and an example for each?
Physical boundary- a mountain
Political - O.E.Z.
Personal/cultural- how close you are comfortable with others.
G.I.S.
Geographic information system
A computer system that gather, and displays data about certain positions on earth.
Grid code
Helps find general location (battleship)
Latitude and longitude
Helps find exact location
Parallels of latitude
Imaginary lines running east to west. They are north and south of the equator
Meridians of longitude
Imaginary lines running from pole to pole. They are measured eat to west of the prime meridian.
North Pole
90°n
South Pole
90°s
Arctic circle
66.5°n
Antarctic circle
66.5°s
Tropic of Cancer
23.5°n
Tropic of Capricorn
23.5°s
Equator
0° latitude
Prime meridian
0° longitude
International date line
180° longitude
5 extra seaways to know
Hudsons bay Baffin Bay Gulf of st.Lawrence St. Lawrence seaway James bay
Hemispheres
Earth is divided into 4 parts.