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Grade 9 Geography – Map Skills Jeopardy

Grade 9 Geography – Map Skills Jeopardy. A very big area showing very little detail. What is a Small Scale Map?. You are measuring it when you use a ruler to measure between Point A and Point B on a map. What is Map Distance?. Scale shown as a ratio such as 1:50,000.

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Grade 9 Geography – Map Skills Jeopardy

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  1. Grade 9 Geography – Map Skills Jeopardy

  2. A very big area showing very little detail

  3. What is a Small Scale Map?

  4. You are measuring it when you use a ruler to measure between Point A and Point B on a map

  5. What is Map Distance?

  6. Scale shown as a ratio such as 1:50,000

  7. What is Representative Fraction?

  8. The scale on a map that is a line divided into units of distance

  9. What is Line Scale?

  10. Scale

  11. What is the relationship between the distance on a map and the actual distance on the Earth’s surface?

  12. Another name for the Equator

  13. What is the Great Circle?

  14. Lines that are parallel and run horizontal

  15. What are Lines of Latitude?

  16. The hemisphere Canada is in

  17. What is the Northwest Hemisphere?

  18. The latitude at the North Pole

  19. What is 90ON?

  20. Zero degrees longitude

  21. What is the Prime Meridian?

  22. It will show the user what different symbols mean.

  23. What is the Legend or Key?

  24. It lets the reader determine the orientation of a map

  25. What isthe Compass Rose or the North Arrow?

  26. It lets the user determine the distance on earth represented on the map.

  27. What is scale?

  28. It indicates the map’s purpose

  29. What is a title?

  30. This type of map provides information about an area such as vegetation, population density or cultural groupings

  31. What is a Thematic Map?

  32. The complete name of Canada’s eastern most province

  33. What is Newfoundland and Labrador?

  34. Canada’s Capital

  35. What is Ottawa?

  36. Iqaluit

  37. What is the capital of Nunavut?

  38. Canada’s smallest province

  39. What is Prince Edward Island?

  40. Capital of British Columbia

  41. What is Victoria?

  42. The only time zone in Canada that is ½ a time zone.

  43. What is Newfoundland?

  44. The reference point for all Time Zones

  45. What is Greenwich, England?

  46. The most westerly Time Zone in Canada

  47. What is the Pacific Time Zone?

  48. The number of degrees of latitude in one time zone

  49. What is 15O?

  50. SIX

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