From northerly towns to southerly fiords, from satellite snaps to soaring skylines, 25 questions to test your photographic memory
WITH LITTLE MORE TO GO ON than a satellite image, a snap from the International Space Station, a shot of a city skyline or a mountain ridge, do you think you can identify some of the most distinctive landscapes, standout features and communities in Canada and the world?
Probe the pictures and follow the clues in the pages that follow to uncover the answers. There’s often more to these photos than you might catch at first glance, so if you’re stumped, take the lay of the land: Tundra or prairie? West Coast mountains, eastern inlets or arid inland region? Evergreen boreal or decidous temperate forest? Good luck!
1 WHICH OF THESE IMAGES shows the Georgian Bay peninsula town of Tobermory, Ont.? (The rest are Bermuda and the Caribbean.)
2 HAMLET TUCKED AWAY at the ocean-end of our most northerly highway.
3 FOUNDED: 1958 Population: undisclosed Average annual temperature: -17.6 C
4 PROVINCE CONTAINING
North America’s largest inland river delta.
a) Quebec b) Ontarioc) Manitoba d) Alberta
5 WHEN THIS VOLCANO ERUPTED in 1980, ash fell on British Columbia and Alberta, and may have been carried as far as Manitoba.
a) Mount St. Helens b) Mount Bakerc) Mauna Loa d) Mount Rainier
6 WHAT’S HAPPENED to Lake Erie?
a) Oil spill b) Algae bloom c) Green dye factory explosion d) Bioluminescent plankton
7 WHAT’S THE TERM for this physiographic feature? This one, about 6,000 square kilometres in size, sits atop Baffin Island.
a) Ice sheet b) Glacier c) Ice cap d) 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?
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