QUIZ ANSWERS
1. See below 2. d) Equator 3. c) 49th parallel 4. a) This map appears in the very first edition of the Canadian Geographical Journal in 1930, in an article on aerial surveying. 5. a) Toronto, b) Halifax, c) Calgary, d) Winnipeg 6. d) All of the above 7. The equator 8. Arctic
CARTOGRAPHER’S CHALLENGE
9. c) This is the shape of Newfoundland 10. b) 50 11. False: Indigenous map making was a common practice before the arrival of Europeans, though due to the ephemeral nature of most of these maps, few have survived to the present. 12. d) Albers equal area 13. a) The Rocky Mountains were spared from significant change during the last glaciation, as they were only covered in ice for a short period of time. The other features owe their existence or their shape directly to the ice. 14. False: Though map data continues to improve, shorelines are infinitely more detailed the closer you get to them — making a precise measure of perimeter a virtual impossibility. Add retreating shorelines and glaciers, and fluctuating water levels, and any perimeter measures of a landform are approximate. 15. b) Jacques Cartier likely made the first maps featuring the name “Canada,” but they were lost. The Harleian map, shown above, was based upon Cartier’s maps. 16. Falls: North can be oriented in any direction on the page, as long as the cartographer shows its direction with a north arrow or compass rose. If directional cues are not printed on the map, north is up. 17. a) Lake Superior has the third-largest volume of water of any lake in the world. 18. a) Dymaxion, b) Goode homolosine, c) Waterman butterfly, d) Mercator 19. b) Isohyets 20. a) Mackenzie, b) Churchill, c) Ottawa 21. a) 66° 30’ N 22. d) Nunavut 23. a) Lake Superior, b) Lake Winnipeg, c) Great Bear Lake, d) Great Slave Lake, e) Lake Huron, f) Lake Erie 24. a) Topographic map 25. a) Geographic North Pole, b) Geomagnetic North Pole, c) North Pole of inaccessibility, d) Magnetic North Pole 26. b) 13, based on the last year of issues (not including this one, as this quiz would surely drive the average up!) 27. b) Compass rose