CGC 1D1

Mapping Skills Quiz Review

1) Provinces are divided into regions. What region do you live in?
2) How many provinces and territories does Canada have? What are they? What are their
capital cities?
3) What is the capital of Canada?
4) How many continents are there? What are they?
5) What are the three oceans that border Canada?
6) What are the five great lakes?
7) What is the name of Canada’s newest province and its capital city?
8) What is the name of the longest river in Canada? Where is it?
9) What is Canada’s most important export commodity?
10) In what province or territory is Canada’s highest mountain? What is it called?
11) What is geography?
12) What three questions do geographers try to answer?
13) What are the two main focuses of geography?
14) What are the 10 important elements every good map should have?
15) What is a map?
16) What is the study of maps called?
17) What are the three primary purposes of maps?
18) What is a large-scale map?
19) What is a small-scale map?
20) What are some examples of things you can see on general purpose maps?
21) What is a world political map?
22) What is a world physical map?
23) What is a thematic map?
24) What is a topographic map?
25) What do contour lines on a map represent?
26) What are the three general rules for contour maps?
27) What are compass points? What are they?
28) What are ordinal points? What are they?
29) What are compass bearings?
30) How would you measure the longitude and latitude of a place on a map?

Total # of questions on test: 20 questions

Quiz format: multiple choice questions