Intro Skills

From west to east the 6 time zones, in order, are

Victoria is the most westerly located capital city within Canada

Canada is surrounded by four (4)oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic and Southern

A map is a representation of the earth’s features drawn onto a flat surface.

The Great Lake located beside Toronto is Lake Ontario.

A Time Zone Map of Canada would be considered which type of map?

The five (5) essential mapping elements are title, compass, scale, legend and colour.

If it is 5:30pm in Victoria it would be 9:30am in Halifax.

Geography is the study of:

The highest number of degrees we measure latitude by is 90^o N/S.

Which of the following is a topic that a Human Geographer would study?

The three (3) types of scale are Direct Statement, Linear and Representative Fraction.

The capital city of Canada is:

North America and South America are completely found within the western hemisphere.

If it is 3:00 pm PST, what time is it CST?

Which of the following is not one of the five (5) themes of geography?

Lines of longitude help to determine:

Which bearing represents the direction NNW?

Another name for the Equator is the International Date Line.

A scale shown as 1 : 15 000 is which type of scale?

If it is 5 pm in St. John's, what time is it in Halifax?

The first question that a geographer asks is:

When time zones were created they were designed so that they were each _______ degrees apart

Which direction represents the bearing of 22.5°?