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Exploring Geography Quiz Flashcards

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1
Q

What is a book of maps

A

An Atlas

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2
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What is the province with only straight lines as borders

A

Saskatchewan

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3
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What is the most eastern province

A

Newfoundland and Labrador

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4
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In which province is suthernmost point of canada

A

Ontario

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5
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What is the largest island

A

Baffin island

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6
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What are the 3 key questions

A

What is where?
Why there?
Why care?

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7
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What is Region?

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An area that is defined by one or more shared characteristics.

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8
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What is Movement?

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How and why people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.

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9
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What is Human-Enviorment Impact?

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How people interact with the environment in both a positive and negative fashion.

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10
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What is Location?

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Answers the question “where is it?” in the world in one of two ways:

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What is Absolute Location?

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Uses a grid system of lines (latitude and longitude) to pinpoint a place.

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12
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What is Relative Location?

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Describes a place in terms of its relation to other places and things around it.

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13
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What is Place?

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This theme describes the physical and human features of a given location.

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14
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What are Interrelationships?

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a relationship that exists between different patterns and trends

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15
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What is Spatial Significance?

A

the importance of a particular location in geography

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16
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What are Patterns and Trends?

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pattern: the arrangement of objects on Earth’s surface in relationship to each other

trend: a noticeable change in a pattern over time

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17
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What is Geographic Perspective?

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a way of looking at the world that includes environmental, political, and social implications

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18
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What are the 5 steps of geographic inquiry in order?

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Forumlate Questions
Gather and Organize information
Interpret and Analyze information
Evaluate and Draw conclusions
Communicate your conclusion to other

19
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What are 4 geotechnologies?

A

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

20
Q

What is the most eaasternly point of canada?

A

Cape Spear

21
Q

What national park has the highest mountains in canada?

A

Klaune

22
Q

What is the Largest Prarrie province?

A

Alberta

23
Q

Largest Province?

A

Quebec

24
Q

Largest icefield in the rockies?

A

Columbia

25
Q

Most southern city?

A

windsor

26
Q

Most northern island?

A

Ellesmere

27
Q

Largest outdoor show in the world

A

Calgary Stampede

28
Q

Longest river

A

Mackenzie river

29
Q

Largest lake

A

Superior

30
Q

Most bilingual city

A

Montreal

31
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Most northern provincial capital

A

Edmonton

32
Q

Largest city by area in ontario

A

Timmins

33
Q

Most northern town

A

Alert

34
Q

Largest lake completetly in canada

A

Great Bear Lake

35
Q

Tallest mountain

A

Mount Logan

36
Q

Shallowest Great lake

A

Erie

37
Q

Most southern island

A

Middle island

38
Q

Coldest temprature recorded was in

A

Yukon

39
Q

Largest island off the west coast

A

Vancouver island

40
Q

Smallest provincial capital

A

Charlottetown

41
Q

In which province is saint john in(st John’s the capital of Newfoundland)

A

New Brunswick

42
Q

The ocean west of canada

A

atlantic

43
Q

An atlas is

A

a book of maps

44
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All maps hsould include this to show distance

A

Scale

Geography Gr.9 (5 decks)

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