SATELLITE VIEWS

1. Which of these images shows the Georgian Bay peninsula town of Tobermory, Ont.? (The rest are Bermuda and the Caribbean.)

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a

b

c

d

2. Hamlet at the ocean-end of our most northerly highway.

Photo: Landsat8/NASA

Inuvik, N.W.T.

Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.

Nain, Labrador

Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

3. Founded: 1958. Population: undisclosed. Average annual temperature: -17.6 C.

Photo: © 2019 Google, Landsat/Copernicus

Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Alert, Nunavut

Nord, Greenland

Eureka, Nunavut

4. Province containing North America’s largest inland river delta.

Photo: Landsat8/NASA

Quebec

Ontario

Manitoba

Alberta

5. What’s happened to Lake Erie?

Photo: NASA

Oil spill

Algae bloom

Green dye factory explosion

Bioluminescent plankton

LAND FEATURES

6. When this volcano erupted in 1980, ash fell on British Columbia and Alberta, and may have been carried as far as Manitoba.

Photo: Landsat8/NASA

Mount St. Helens

Mount Baker

Mauna Loa

Mount Rainier

7. What’s the term for this physiographic feature? This one, about 6,000 square kilo­metres in size, sits atop Baffin Island.

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Ice sheet

Glacier

Ice cap

Ice chapeau

8. In Alberta, warm winds rushing down mountains’ eastern slopes are called Chinooks, but here they’re called by their Spanish name zonda. What South American country is this?

Photo: Landsat8/NASA

Brazil

Peru

Argentina

Chile

9. These waters hold the record for world’s foggiest place.

Photo: Landsat8/NASA

Cape Disappointment, Wash.

Severnaya Zemlya islands, Russia

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.

Grand Banks, N.L.

10. Coastal “place of spirits,” inhabited for 6,000 years.

Photo: Design Pics Inc/Alamy

Chic-Choc Mountains, Gaspesie, Que.

Torngat Mountains, northern Labrador

Baffin Mountains, Baffin Island, Nunavut

Coast Mountains, B.C.

11. What did miners name this mountain, now a centrepiece of a famous Yukon park?

Photo: Hemis/Alamy

The Monster

Cemetery Hill

Doom Peak

Tombstone Mountain

12. Where is this famed fiord?

Photo: Organisaction

Saguenay, Que.

Great Bear Rainforest, B.C.

Gros Morne, N.L.

Baffin Island, Nunavut

MAP CLUES

13. The Arctic Circle crosses through this many countries.

Photo: Chris Brackley/Can Geo

5

8

12

15

14. Where is the magnetic North Pole expected to be by 2020?

Photo: Chris Brackley/Can Geo

a

b

c

d

15. Judging only by this map (and what you know about the country’s big population centres), about what percentage of Canadians live on islands?

Photo: Chris Brackley/Can Geo

1%

5%

12%

25%

FROM THE LENS OF CANADIAN ASTRONAUT DAVID SAINT-JACQUES

16. What’s the 200-kilometre-wide body of water bordering Eeyou Istchee?

Photo: David Saint-Jacques/CSA

Hudson Bay

Georgian Bay

Gulf of St. Lawrence

James Bay

17. What country is home to this boreal body of water, which contains twice as much fresh water as Lake Superior?

Photo: David Saint-Jacques/CSA

Russia

Canada

United States (Alaska)

Kazakhstan

18. A coastal U.S. state with swamps and Appalachians, named for two kings of England.

Photo: David Saint-Jacques/CSA

Virginia

North Carolina

Florida

California

19. The island sometimes called the “eighth continent” for its unique ecology.

Photo: David Saint-Jacques/CSA

Borneo

Galápagos Islands

New Zealand

Madagascar

20. Not quite as long as the Nile, but stretch this muddy river out and it could reach from Toronto to Berlin.

Photo: David Saint-Jacques/CSA

Mississippi River, United States

Mackenzie River, Canada

Yangtze River, China

Amazon River, South America

SISTER CITIES

21. This Winnipeg sister city, about 600 kilometres south of the Manitoba capital, is the larger of the Twin Cities.

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Chicago, Ill.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Detroit, Mich.

Milwaukee, Wis.

22. Toronto is a “partnership city” with this place, Italy’s creative and economic centre.

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Rome

Florence

Milan

Venice

23. Montreal has more than a dozen sister cities, including Paris and this coastal city in Asia, its country’s largest.

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Shanghai, China

Taipei, Taiwan

Seoul, South Korea

Tokyo, Japan

24. A Vancouver sister city of about 500,000 in the United Kingdom; birthplace of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Photo: Federico Rostagno/istock

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Glasgow, Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Liverpool, England

25. One of Ottawa’s sister cities, a capital of almost 20 million just south of an enormous delta.

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