This is a dense, extremely hot ball at the center of the earth
What is the Core?
100
This landform region is noted for the lakes and river for which it is named
What is Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands?
100
Canada's population (within 5 mil.)
What is 35,000,000?
100
The Kennebecasis River
What is Site Factor?
100
This term refers to people moving into a new area
What is immigration?
200
Earth was once comprised of this super-continent
What is Pangaea?
200
This is the largest landform region in Canada. The soil is thin and poorly suited for agriculture. There are many mining operations because of rich mineral deposits.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
75% of Canada's population lives with 100 miles of this.
What is the US border?
200
A prosperous economy
What is Situation factor?
200
These are factors that encourage people to leave where they are currently living
What are push factors?
300
Layer of the earth that is composed of hot, flowing magma, just below the earth's crust
What is the Mantle?
300
This landform region is made up of a series of mountain ranges, including the Rocky Mountains, The Coast Mountains and the Columbia Mountains
What is the Western Cordillera?
300
This figure can be found by dividing land mass by population
What is population density?
300
The natural harbour at St. John's Newfoundland
What is a site factor?
300
Jobs, health care, education opportunities. With regard to migration these can all be considered...
What are pull factors?
400
These are plates the cover the earth. They are slowly moving due to convection currents
What are tectonic plates?
400
Mostly found in Nunavut, this landform regions is marked by vast tundra and treeless plains with very sparse vegetation save lichen and moss
What is Arctic Lowlands?
400
populations in Canada are scattered in groups like islands in an chain. This is known as...
What is the Archipelago effect?
400
These factors have more of an impact on continued growth rather than original growth
What are situation factors?
400
These groups are often not considered immigrants to Canada
What are aboriginal groups? (First Nations, Inuit)
500
This term refers to movement of the earth's major landmasses due to convection currents beneath the crust
What is Continental Drift?
500
Wide open grasslands with rolling hills and little variation in geography
What is the Interior Plains?
500
This is conducted every 5 years by Statistics Canada do determine the latest demographic information about the country
What is the Census?
500
Having a neighboring city that wants to conduct trade
What is situation factor?
500
French settlers in what is now Quebec brought this system of land management with them when they migrated to North America