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10 Canadian provinces 
Alberta - Edmonton
British Columbia - Victoria
Ontario - Toronto
Nova Scotia - Halifax
Saskatchewan - Regina
Manitoba - Winnipeg
New Brunswick - Fredericton
Newfoundland - St. John's
Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown
Quebec - Quebec City
3 Canadian territories 
Northwest Territories - Yellowknife
Yukon - Whitehorse
Nunavut - Iqaluit
5 Great Lakes 
Lake Ontario
Lake Erie
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Capital of Canada - Ottawa
Smallest province - Prince Edward Island
Newest territory - Nunavut
Highway across Canada - Trans Canada
Longest street - Yonge Street
Geographic concepts 
Spatial significance (the importance of space on earth)
Patterns and trends (the arrangements of objects in the earth, noticeable patterns)
Interrelationships (the relationship existent between different patterns and trends)
Geographic perspective (the way of looking at the world involving environmental, social, and political implications)
Four W's in geography
What is where
Why there
Why care
What to do
Physical geography 
Natural components the earth provides (air, water, soil, etc.)
Human geography 
Components humans created (roads, houses, etc.)
Cartography 
A study where skilled people make maps
Cartographer 
The person who creates / designs the maps
Map 
A representation of earth's surfaces on a flat surface (using symbols and colours to represent specific features)
Large scale map 
Shows a small area, with big details (roads, buildings, schools, etc.)
Small scale map 
Shows a large area, with small details (borders, lakes, rivers, etc.)
Maps can be racist because depending on the cartographer, they can make a specific country bigger to show more "power"
The Gall Peters projection displays a true / equal map compared to the Mercator projection map which was distorting specific countries to be either too small or too big
The McArthur Universal Corrective Map was made by a student wondering why Australia was at the bottom. This map was flipped to change the perspective of people's opinions, showing then what it's like for their country to be on the bottom. This map isn't wrong, making it modern
6 features of a map
Border / outline (frame)
Direction (north, east, south, west)
Legend (represents the map using symbols)
Title (purpose of the map)
Scale (tells us how smaller the map is compared to real life)
Source (the information used to make the map)
Written scales 
Used words to describe the relationship between a distance on a map and the specific distance in the earth's surface (1cm = 10km)
Representative fraction (ratio) 
The fraction is a ratio where one unit of a map equals a specific number of the same units of measure (1:50,000)
Linear scale 
A special ruler on a map that is divided into equal units of distance. Always has units of measurement on earth (0 1 2 3 4 kilometres)
On a compass, each direction is 22.5 degrees apart
Compass directions 
Cardinal points (four)
Ordinal points (twelve)
Total (sixteen)
Alpha numeric grid 
A grid that uses letters and numbers (Lima - B4)
Atlas 
A book that contains maps or charts
Absolute location 
An exact location using degrees of longitude and latitude
Equator 
An imaginary horizontal line in the middle of earth at 0 degrees to split the northern and southern hemisphere
Northern hemisphere 
The north part of the earth
Southern hemisphere 
The south part of the earth
North pole 
90 degrees north
South pole 
90 degrees south
Prime meridian 
An imaginary vertical line in the middle of earth at 0 degrees splitting the eastern and western hemisphere
Eastern hemisphere 
The east part of the earth
Western hemisphere 
The west part of the earth
International date line 
At the other side of the world splitting the world into two halves at 180 degrees
The prime meridian goes through London, England
Time zone 
A part in the world in which every location sets its clocks to the same time