In the Toolbox
This is what the 'O' stands for in the acronym BOLTSS, which is used to remember the parts of a map.
What is Orientation?
This process, paired with weathering, results in permanent change to landforms due to material moving from one location to another.
What is erosion?
This factor that affects climate, which is also the beginning of the acronym used to remember them, is the most important and underpins all the others.
What is a renewable resource?
This geographic field is the study of populations, from the Greek for 'people' and 'field of study.'
What is demography?
This type of graph commonly used in geography shows the percentage each component of a whole makes up.
This landform region type in Canada contains the Western Cordillera, the Innuitian Mountains, and the Appalachians.
What is the Highlands?
This tool is a combination line and bar graph and is used by geographers to take a snapshot of the yearly climate for a specific area, like a city.
What is a climograph (or climate graph)?
This type of job is the type that brings money into a community from outside of that community and is crucial for supporting their communities.
What is a basic job?
These are the types of factors that may prompt someone to emigrate.
What are push factors?
This part of a map is used to show how distances on a map translate to real-world distances.
What is scale?
This lowland region in Canada is the smallest, but contains over half of the population.
What is the Great Lakes-St Lawrence lowland?
Low amounts of precipitation and a short growing season combine to make this vegetation region which covers most of Canada and is dominated by coniferous trees.
What is the boreal forest?
This industry type is responsible for harvesting, or 'producing' natural resources.
What is a primary industry?
This Latin word is a process that countries do every five years to count their populations.
What is a census?
This blend of maps and data is useful to visualise information for all sorts of geographic inquiries.
These are categorised as convergent, divergent, or transform.
This climate type, which Canada has on both of its coasts, is marked by high precipitation and a moderate temperature range.
This 'R' is an important part of modern conservation and includes making choices to not use some products and instead use more environmentally friendly versions.
What is to replace?
This Malthusian Stage is marked by a very triangular population pyramid, which means high birth rates, moderate death rates, and a low life expectancy.
What is Stage 2?
This type of graph is best used to show trends in one type of data.
What is a line graph?
This type of rock creates the best parent material for soil because it is so rich in minerals but also soft enough that it can break down.
What is sedimentary rock?
These two factors that affect climate are the most important for determining how much precipitation an area receives.
What are winds and air masses and relief?
The Niagara Falls are a great example of these two types of resource.
What is flow and other resources?
This rate in Stage 4 countries such as Canada is usually very close to their Replacement Rate, which translates to low or no natural increase.
What is Total Fertility Rate?