Unit 1
What is the capital of Canada
Ottawa
What cycle is the term evaporation related to?
Water Cycle
What is selective cutting?
When you select certain trees in one area to cut down.
What is a refugee?
people within or outside Canada who fear going back to their home country
what does each letter in seep stand for
Social Economic Environmental Political
What are the three W's
What is Where?
Why There?
Why Care?
What are the three types of rocks
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
What are the 3 main types of logging
Clear cutting, shelter wood logging and selective cutting
What is the difference between and immigration and a emigration?
Immigration is moving to a country. Emigration is leaving a country.
What are three types of energy?
Solar, Wind, Biomass, Geothermal, Tidal
What are the four types of interrelationship
human-human, human-natural, natural-human, and natural-natural
How is a glacier made?
When layers of snow and ice pile up over time
Are forests renewable or non-renewable? Explain.
Renewable because trees can re-grow in a human lifespan
Define demography and give an example
Demography is the study of human populations. Some questions you may ask are birthrates and death rates.
What are 3 methods for mining in Canada?
Underground
Strip
Open Pit
what are the six features of a map
Title,Legend,Scale,Direction,Labels,Date
What are the three categories of Sedimentary rock?
clastic, chemical, and organic
What is the difference between inshore and offshore fisheries?
In Shore are run by individuals and families during the summer months
Off Shore fish all year round and are run by big companies.
What is a census
The census is a set of questions that are mailed to people’s homes.
what are the two types of farming?
intensive farming
Extensive farming
What are the six time zones in Canada
Newfoundland, Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific.
what are the seven land form regions
Canadian Shield, Interior Plains, St. Laurence Lowlands, Appalachian Mountains, Western Cordillera, Arctic Lowlands / Innuitian Mountains, Hudson’s Bay Lowlands
What are the 5 threats to the forest we discussed?
Forest Fires, Acid Rain, Diseases, Ice Storms and Insects.
What are the three types of population pyramids?
Expanding
Stable
Declining
Who is the man who established the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener