Definitions
Power of Movement
Transportation 1
Transportation 2
World Trade
100
Huge jigsaw pieces that make up the top layer of the earth.
What is plate?
100
A place where around 200,000 people move to every year.
What is Canada?
100
In some parts of the world, great dependence is on this two wheeled form of transportation.
What is a bicycle?
100
It is the second largest freeway in North America.
What is hwy 401?
100
These are not equally distributed around the world. Once a basis for trade is established, movement of these will occur.
What is products ( resources)?
200
The area where two plates meet: a weakness in the crust of the earth.
What is fault zone?
200
Things that make it difficult to move.
What are barriers?
200
The most commonly used from of transportation in the western world.
What is an automobile?
200
An effecient mode of transportation to move people and huge loads long distances.
What is a train?
200
A way to move money, ideas, information and messages.
What is a computer (technology)?
300
Something that encourages people to leave a country or place.
What is push factor?
300
Forces which encourage people to move.
What is Push Factor?
300
This has greatly affected the designs of our urban places.
What is roads?
300
Today, most Canadian rail traffic is freight, not passenger trains. Our large cities use this to move millions of people daily over short distances.
What is a subway?
300
Putting these in orbit allow us to relay signals and transmit information.
What is a satellite?
400
One component of a pattern: indicates a position.
What is a point?
400
The place from where the largest number of people migrate to Canada.
What is Europe?
400
Some major cities have build this around the city to move people rapidly and to avoid congestion.
What is a ring road?
400
The highest competitor for rail transportation of goods.
What is 18 wheelers (transports)?
400
Recognizing, analysing and explaining these is important for understanding relationships and planning for the future.
What is Patterns?
500
A pattern of intersecting horizontal and diagnal lines.
What is a grid?
500
Physical, financial, legal, and emotional barriers.
What is a factor that affects movement?
500
Some of these roads are designed with curves, crescents, and dead ends, in order to discourage traffic from residential neighbourhoods.
What is interior or city roads?
500
A form of transportation that has the ability to move great quantities long distances at a low cost. This makes them the cheapest way to move items like cars, wheat or iron across the world.
What is ships?
500
Geographers use these to describe pattern.
What are point, line, area and volume?
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