BLM Leg 4 #1		Map Assignment: Regina to Calgary 
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Part A: Marking Features on a Map

1.	Label the following features on your journal maps (BLM Leg 1 #3 and BLM Leg 1 #4).

Population Centres
•	Swift Current
•	Medicine Hat
•	Calgary
•	Edmonton
•	Lethbridge

Geographic Features 
•	Saskatchewan-Alberta border
•	Bow River
•	North and South Saskatchewan Rivers
•	Lake Diefenbaker
•	Missouri Coteau
•	Alberta Plateau
•	Palliser Triangle (outline with coloured pencils)
•	Alberta badlands (outline with coloured pencils)
•	Cypress Hills (outline with coloured pencils)

Part B: Using an Atlas

1.	Finding global coordinates

a)	What are lines of latitude?
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b)	What are lines of longitude?
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BLM Leg 4 #1	Map Assignment: Regina to Calgary (Continued)
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2.	Give the global position, using lines of latitude and longitude, for the following locations:
a)	Winnipeg 	_____________________________________________________
b)	Regina 	_____________________________________________________
c)	Calgary 	_____________________________________________________
d)	Ottawa 	_____________________________________________________
e)	Manitoba-Saskatchewan border	_____________________________________
f)	Saskatchewan-Alberta border 	_____________________________________

3.	What are the boundaries of the Alberta Plateau?

a)	North _________________________	c)  West__________________________
b)	East  _________________________		d)  South _________________________

4.	What is the longitudinal centre of Canada? 	_________________________________

5.	Which parallel of latitude forms the southernmost boundary of the Canadian Prairie Region?	________________________________________________________

6.	Draw a cross-section of the elevation of the Prairies from the Rocky Mountains to the Canadian Shield.