Unit 1
The part of the country where there is continuous, permanent settlement
What is continuous ecumene
Things found in the total stock (all parts of the natural environment) that people find useful
What is natural resources
1) An industry that focuses on producing or extracting raw materials
2) An industry that focuses on making things using raw materials
3) An industry that focuses on providing services
1) What is the primary industry
2) What is the secondary industry
3) What is the primary industry
1) The study of human populations
2) The number of births in a population per year per 1000 people
3) The number of deaths in a population per year per 1000 people
4) The birth rate minus the death rate
1) What is Demography
2) What is Birth Rate
3) What is Death Rate
4) What is Natural Increase Rate
1) all the characteristics of a community that contribute to the quality of life of the people who live there
2) improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems
3) The various functions of land in an urban or rural area
1) What is livability
2) What is sustainability
3) What is land use
An urban area in Canada with a population over 100 000. It is centered around a city and generally extends beyond the borders of the city
What is Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)
Resources that can be regenerated if used carefully
What are renewable resources
1) The process by which something is done at a global, rather than a national or local level
2) When a company moves part of its operation to another country to take advantage of cheaper labour costs and/or less stringent labour and environmental controls
1) What is globalization
2) What is outsourcing
1) The immigration rate minus the emigration rate
2) the natural increase rate plus the net migration rate
3) The length of time for a country's population to double at a particular population growth rate
1) What is net migration rate
2) What is population growth rate
3) What is doubling time
1) A measure of the number of housing units per hectare
2) growth in the percentage of a country's population that lives in cities and towns
3) growth in the number of people who live in cities and towns
4) largely uncontrolled expansion of cities onto adjacent rural lands
1) What is residential density
2) What is urbanization
3) What is urban growth
4) What is urban sprawl
The part of the country where there are significant patches of settlement
What is discontinuous ecumene
Resources that are limited and cannot be replaced once they are used up
What are non-renewable resources
1) Manufacturing based on the ideas, knowledge and skills of a well educated work force.
2) A situation in which a country is better off focusing its efforts in fields where it is most competitive
1) What are knowledge-based industries
2) What is comparative advantage
1) A reason that encourages people to move away from their current country
2) a reason that makes a particular country seem attractive to potential immigrants
3) Someone who moves to another country because of fear of cruel or inhumane treatment (even death) in their home country as a result of race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.
1) What is a push factor
2) What is a pull factor
3) What is a refugee
1) an area of rural land around a city that cannot be built on
2) a process in which development is focused on filling vacant lots, bringing disused buildings back into use and replacing low-density dwellings with higher-density buildings
3) a community in which important destinations (like jobs, shops and schools) are within 1.6 kilometers a distance that can be walked at a brisk pace in about 20 mins
1) What is a greenbelt
2) What is land use intensification
3) What is a 20 minute neighbourhood
The plants that would grow in an area with no human interference
What is natural vegetation
Resources that are replaced by natural actions and must be used when and where they occur or be lost
What are flow resources
1) International trade without tariffs or other barriers to trade
2) a tax applied to imported goods that is designed to protect domestic manufacturers by making foreign goods more expensive
1) What is free trade
2) What is a tariff
1) The percentage of the population that is non-working. Typically they are people under the age of 15 and over the age of 65.
2) The average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime
3) The total fertility rate that will result in a stable population
4) A model used to describe the change from a high BR and DR demographic pattern to a low BR and DR pattern
1) What is dependency load
2) What is total fertility rate
3) What is replacement rate
4) What is demographic transition model
1) a measure of overall quality of life that combines measures of wealth, health, and education. It was developed by the United Nations
2) a measure of resource use per person, expressed as the number of hectares of productive land that is needed to support a person
3) a measure of the size of an economy, in dollars, divided by the population
1) What is the Human Development Index
2) What is an Ecological Footprint
3) What is Gross Domestic Product per capita
2) A climate in areas near an ocean. The annual temperature range is small and precipitation is high.
1) What is continental climate
2) What is maritime climate
Resources that do not fit into the other three categories
What are other resources
1) A job that brings money into an economy from somewhere else
2) A job that circulates money within an economy
3) The increase in total wealth or income that occurs when new money is injected into an economy
1) What is a basic job
2) What is a non basic job
3) What is the multiplier effect
1) a dramatic decline in population
2) the situation in which a country's population growth rate is so high that the country is not able to develop economically or socially
3) a poor country that is not able to respond to crises that might occur in its food supply health care, or other critical systems
4) a private, not-for-profit organization that works to achieve particular social, environmental or political goals
1) what is population implosion
2) What is a demographic trap
3) What is a fragile state
4) What is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization)
1) a measure of the happiness of a population
2) a UN produced measure for evaluating performance in a wide range of environmental fields
3) a measure that combines quality of life and sustainability
1) What is Gross National Happiness
2) What is Environmental Performance Index
3) What is Happy Planet Index