Canadian Landscape
What is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador
St. Johns
What is "Population?"
The number of living things that live together in the same place.
What is the population density formula?
Population/Area
What three oceans border Canada?
Pacific Ocean (west), Atlantic Ocean (east), Arctic Ocean (north).
What are the 5 Great Lakes in Canada?
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior (homes)
What are "Push and Pull Factors?”
Push factors, encourage a population to leave its home, and pull factors, draw a population to another area or place.
What is the birth rate formula?
Births/Total population X 1000
When was Canada at its highest fertility rate?
Baby Boom (approx. 1946-1966)
What physiographic region of Canada landform, do we live in?
The Canadian Sheild
What is “Emigration?”
When someone moves away from their country
What is the death rate formula?
Deaths/Total population X 1000
You have 1 minute to draw a population pyramid and include the two key components on the y and x axis. Go!
Age (y-axis) and gender (x-axis).
What Canadian city has the largest population?
Toronto
What is “Doubling Time?”
The time it would take for a country to double their current population
How do you calculate the natural increase rate?
Birth Rate-Death rate
What is the most population-dense city in Canada?
Vancouver
What is the longest river in Canada?
The Mackenzie River (2635 miles long)
What is the “Dependency Load?”
The dependency load is the portion of the population that is not in the workforce; the total number of people under the age of 14, and over the age of 65.
What is the rule of 70 (Doubling time formula?)
70/ Growth Rate (percent)
What survey is used to determine the Canadian population?
The census