Mapping Skills
North, South, East, and West
What are the cardinal directions
Type of climate where the temperatures do not fluctuate (change) due to nearness of water.
What is a maritime climate?
Four parts of the earth
What are the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core
Industries that extract materials from the earth
What are primary industries
Where people live in Canada
What is population distribution
A type of map that shows elevation
What is a topographic map
The moving of broken-up pieces of rock by wind, water, or other forces.
What is erosion?
The 5 Themes of Geography
What are movement, region, human-environmental interaction, location, and place
Wind, water, sun
What are renewable resources?
A chart showing the breakdown of people by age and gender within a specific area
What is a population pyramid
BOLTS stands for this
What is:
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale
The organic part of soil.
What is humus?
Cycles of heated and cooling air inside the earth that move plate boundaries
What are convection currents?
The transfer of a business from public to private ownership (as seen in The World Without Water)
What is privatization?
The three classes of immigrants
What are family, economic, and refugee?
This line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the Equator
This landform region features the oldest mountains in Canada.
What is the Appalachian region?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, and runoff are a part of this.
What is the water or hydrologic cycle?
High-tech industries (Think Google, Microsoft etc.)
What are quaternary industries?
Birth Rate - Death Rate
What is natural increase rate?
16 Birch Crescent is an example of this.
What is absolute location
The removal of minerals from the soil by rainwater
What is leaching?
Unsorted material deposited by glaciation
What is till?
The ability to be maintained at a certain level or rate.
What is sustainability?
Group of people not in the workforce
What is the dependency load?