Foundations of Mapping

Use the following map to answer the questions below

http://www.top-photogalleries.com/photos/_files/photogallery/54ff1_canada_political_map.jpg

1) What is the title of this map? 2) List what is in the key:3) Describe how capital cities are symbolized:4) Describe how the federal capital is symbolized:5) What latitude is the border between the provinces and the territories?6) What longitude is Goose Bay on?7) Halifax is on what latitude?

Use the following map to answer the questions below:

http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/data/english/maps/reference/national/can_relief/map.pdf

1) What is the title of this map?2) What province has the highest average elevation?3) What province has the lowest elevation?4) Which area is higher in elevation, the prairies or Ontario?5) Approximately how high are the Rocky Mountains?6) What province/territory has the highest point in Canada?7) If you were standing atop the Rockies, how much higher are you than the highest point in

Quebec?

Use the following link to the world map to answer the following questions:

http://pos-map.appspot.com/en/coordinates60.html

Locate the coordinates of the following cities to the nearest minute:

1) Vancouver:2) Port Coquitlam:3) Victoria:4) Ottawa:5) Seoul:6) Washington D.C:7) Mexico City:8) Bogota:9) Lima:10) Beijing:

11) Capital of Iran:12) Capital of Russia:13) Capital of Kenya:14) Capital of Romania:15) Capital of Germany:16) Capital of Laos:17) Capital of Mozambique:18) Capital of Chile:19) Capital of Pakistan:20) Capital of Kyrgyzstan

Find the city located at these coordinates:

1) 22°54’S, 43°12’W 2) 53°9’S, 70°54’W 3) 56°12’N, 95°42’E 4) 43°19’N, 145°34’E 5) 9°10’N, 105°9’E 6) 33°55’S, 25°34’E 7) 18°54’S, 47°31’E 8) 61°13’N, 149°54’W 9) 46°24’S, 168°2`’E 10) 42°53’S, 147°19’E

11) 45°25’N, 122°21’W 12) 47°34’N, 53°33’W 13) 56°9’N, 3°39’W 14) 35°6’S, 147°22’E 15) 55°29’N, 9°44’E 16) 40°6’N, 83°16’W 17) 34°39’S, 58°37’W 18) 50°38’N, 3°55’E 19) 43°21’N, 80°44’W 20) 49°12’N, 108°23’W

Answer the following questions:

1) What continents are completely west of the Prime Meridian?

2) What continents span the north and south hemisphere?

3) If there are 360° around the equator and it is 40,075km long, how far is one degree, one minute, and one second?

4) If you walk one kilometer north, one kilometer west and one kilometer south and are back where you started from, where are you?

Use the following time zone map to answer the questions below:

http://www.fgienr.net/time-zone/

If it is 3:30pm in Vancouver, what time is it in:

1) Tehran: 2) Sidney:3) Mumbai:4) Greenwich:5) Cape Town:

6) New York:7) Dubai:8) Shanghai:9) Jerusalem:10) Sarajevo:

Answer the following questions:

1) You leave Toronto at 11:00pm for Vancouver. The flight is 4 hours long, what time do you arrive in Vancouver?

2) It’s January 1st and you’re in Tokyo. You leave Tokyo at 5:00am and take a 10hr flight back to Vancouver. What is the date and time of your arrival?

3) Your ship’s captain has calculated the latitude of the ship as 20°S. Your local time is 10:00am when GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is 4:00pm. In which body of water are you located?