Geographic Inquiry

If it is Friday in Japan, what day is it in Vancouver?

• Monday

• Saturday

• Friday

• Thursday

The Sun is directly overhead the _______ on the first day of winter.

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

• Ottawa

The Sun is directly overhead the _______ on the first day of fall and the first day of spring.

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Equator

• Ottawa

Tropic of Cancer

• is a latitude line

• is at 23.5^oN

• is in Northern hemisphere

• all of these are correct

Which statement about longitude is false?

• every 15^o is equal to 1 hour

• lines are parallel

• lines converge at the poles

• measured east and west of Prime Meridian

Treaty that states if an armed attack occurs against a member nation then it is against all memebers.

• NATO

• UN

• NAFTA

• CUSMA

CUSMA is the

• free trade agreement between Canada, USA and Mexico

• group of nations which were colonized by the British

• agreement to protect nations from being attacked

• agreement to preserve french language and culture

The ________ projection uses an oval world and curved longitude lines

• Robinson

• Conical

• Cylindrical map

• Equal area map

Which map projection maintains the shape of continents but distorts the area?

• Conformal projection

• Equal area projection

• Conical projection

STudy of the Earth using images from the sky is

• remote sensing

• topographic imaging

• aerial photography

• geostationary sensing