Geography

Question 1

What is latitude?

Answer 1

An imaginary line over planet earth going horizontal. The equator is the major line of latitude.

Question 2

What is longitude?

Answer 2

An imaginary line over planet earth going vertical. The prime meridian is the major line of longitude.

Question 3

What are the Canadian time zones? (East to west).

Answer 3

Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfound land.

Question 4

Step 1 of spatial significance?

Answer 4

Identify where on earth this place or event is occuring.

Question 5

Step 2 spatial significance?

Answer 5

Identify what is occuring naturally at this location.

Question 6

Step 3 spatial significance?

Answer 6

Identify important human activities at this location.

Question 7

Step 4 spatial significance?

Answer 7

Explain why it is important to know what is going on there.

Question 8

What are contour lines?

Answer 8

Lines on a topographic map to show elavation. If the lines are closer together, then the elavation is increasing rapidly. If farther apart, then the elavation is increasing slowly.

Question 9

What is a large scale map?

Answer 9

Map showing smaller area with a lot of detail.

Question 10

What is a small scale map?

Answer 10

map showing large area with little detail.

Question 11

What are the types of maps?

Answer 11

road map, topographic map, and thematic map.

Question 12

how do you calculate scale from cm to km?

Answer 12

multiply number of cm by 0.00001

Question 13

how do you calculate scale from km to cm?

Answer 13

multiply number of km by 10000.