Intro

Question 1

What is geography?

Answer 1

Geography is the science that tries to understand how the earth works and how humans change it

Question 2

What are the 4 important concepts?

Answer 2

Interrelationships, spacial significance, patterns and trends and geographical perspective

Question 3

What are interrelationships?

Answer 3

Relationships between humans and nature

Question 4

What is spacial significance?

Answer 4

Asking where something is, and why it is where it is

Question 5

What’s the importance of patterns and trends

Answer 5

To understand why things are happening

Question 6

What is geographical perspective?

Answer 6

Understanding other fields such as economics, history, urban planning.

Question 7

What questions do geographers try to answer

Answer 7

Where are things located on earth, what are the connections between people and earth (interrelationships) and how can we illustrate this info to understand it better

Question 8

The 2 main focuses of geography

Answer 8

physical geography and human geography

Question 9

Features of a map?

Answer 9

Title, legend, scale, direction, border and date of publication

Question 10

What are cardinal points and ordinal points?

Answer 10

Cardinal points - N E S W
Ordinal points - everything else

Question 11

What is a large scale map + examples

Answer 11

shows a lot of streets schools and railways eg. topographic, road city maps, bus maps.

Question 12

Small scale maps + examples

Answer 12

Shows a little (borders, lakes, large rivers) eg. world maps, globes and atlases

Question 13

What are the three main map projections?

Answer 13

Peters, Mercator, and Winkel-Tripel

Question 14

What is latitude

Answer 14

Lines that measure the distance north and south of the equator. The latitude of a region determines the weather

Question 15

What is longitude

Answer 15

The measure east and west from the prime meridian. Longitude lines determine the time zone. Longitude lines meet at the poles

Question 16

What provinces/territories are in the pacific time zone

Answer 16

British Colombia and Yukon

Question 17

Mountain time zone?

Answer 17

Alberta, North West Territories, Nunavut

Question 18

Central time zone?

Answer 18

Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut

Question 19

Eastern time zone?

Answer 19

Ontario, Quebec, Nunavut

Question 20

Atlantic time zone?

Answer 20

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, P.E.I

Question 21

Newfoundland time zone?

Answer 21

St Johns

Question 22

What is scale

Answer 22

Scale shows the relationships between distance on a map and the actual distance on earths surface

Question 23

What are the 3 kinds of scale

Answer 23

Linear scale, representative fractions (ratios), and direct statement scale

Question 24

This map distorts direction, land masses, and size

Answer 24

Winkel Tripel

Question 25

Compass direction for 90 degrees

Answer 25

East

Question 26

What scale has no units

Answer 26

Representative fraction

Question 27

Which direction is in between SW and NE

Answer 27

SE

Question 28

What’s the capital of New Brunswick?

Answer 28

Fredericton