Exploring Geography Quiz Flashcards
What is a book of maps
An Atlas
What is the province with only straight lines as borders
Saskatchewan
What is the most eastern province
Newfoundland and Labrador
In which province is suthernmost point of canada
Ontario
What is the largest island
Baffin island
What are the 3 key questions
What is where?
Why there?
Why care?
What is Region?
An area that is defined by one or more shared characteristics.
What is Movement?
How and why people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.
What is Human-Enviorment Impact?
How people interact with the environment in both a positive and negative fashion.
What is Location?
Answers the question “where is it?” in the world in one of two ways:
What is Absolute Location?
Uses a grid system of lines (latitude and longitude) to pinpoint a place.
What is Relative Location?
Describes a place in terms of its relation to other places and things around it.
What is Place?
This theme describes the physical and human features of a given location.
What are Interrelationships?
a relationship that exists between different patterns and trends
What is Spatial Significance?
the importance of a particular location in geography
What are Patterns and Trends?
pattern: the arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface in relationship to each other
trend: a noticeable change in a pattern over time
What is Geographic Perspective?
a way of looking at the world that includes environmental, political, and social implications
What are the 5 steps of geographic inquiry in order?
Forumlate Questions
Gather and Organize information
Interpret and Analyze information
Evaluate and Draw conclusions
Communicate your conclusion to other
What are 4 geotechnologies?
GPS. (Global positioning system) a satellite based system that provides location data.
GIS. (Geographic information system) computer system that manages and analyzes geographic information.
Remote sensing. Seeing or measuring something from a considerable distance, often a satellite.
Telematics. gather, analyze, and transmit data from vehicles
What is the most eaasternly point of canada?
Cape Spear
What national park has the highest mountains in canada?
Klaune
What is the Largest Prarrie province?
Alberta
Largest Province?
Quebec
Largest icefield in the rockies?
Columbia
Most southern city?
windsor
Most northern island?
Ellesmere
Largest outdoor show in the world
Calgary Stampede
Longest river
Mackenzie river
Largest lake
Superior
Most bilingual city
Montreal
Most northern provincial capital
Edmonton
Largest city by area in ontario
Timmins
Most northern town
Alert
Largest lake completetly in canada
Great Bear Lake
Tallest mountain
Mount Logan
Shallowest Great lake
Erie
Most southern island
Middle island
Coldest temprature recorded was in
Yukon
Largest island off the west coast
Vancouver island
Smallest provincial capital
Charlottetown
In which province is saint john in(st John’s the capital of Newfoundland)
New Brunswick
The ocean west of canada
atlantic
An atlas is
a book of maps
All maps hsould include this to show distance
Scale
