Unit 1: Intro to Geography
What are the 4 geo perspectives?
Environmental
Social
Political
Economic
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
Divergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
What is a resource?
A resource is any physical material constituting part of Earth that people need and value. Natural materials become resources when humans value them.
Resources are spatially distributed varying in quantity and quality.
Some resources are finite, while others can be replenished at varying rates.
However, humans need to balance short-term rates of use against long-term availability to ensure a sustainable future.
What are demographics?
Demographics is the study of population and the people within it.
What are the 3 pillars of sustainability?
Economic
Social
Environmental
What are the sense of place 3 W's?
What is where?
Why there?
Why care?
What are the 7 landform regions found in Canada?
CANADIAN SHIELD
INTERIOR PLAIN
GREAT LAKES–ST.LAWRENCE LOWLANDS
HUDSON BAY–ARCTIC LOWLANDS
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
INNUITIAN MOUNTAINS
WESTERN CORDILLERA
What are the 3 types of resource renewability?
Non-Renewable: A resource that has a finite supply (oil, coal, nickel). Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever!
Critical Renewable: Can replenish themselves, if managed properly (i.e soils, forestry)
Non-Critical Renewable: Renewable resource that won’t run out no matter what we do with it (i.e sun, water, wind)
What is population distribution?
It refers to land where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose.
What is liveability?
The amount/level to which a place is suitable or good for living
The quality of a place refers to the:
1) The built and natural environment,
2) Economic well being,
3) Social stability,
4) Educational opportunity, and
5) Access to cultural, entertainment and recreational facilities in a given place.
What are the 6 mapping conventions?
maps message
direction
scale
lettering
authors name & date
legend & labelling
What does the accronym LOWERN stand for?
Latitude
Ocean Currents
Wind & Airmasses
Elevation
Relief
Nearness to Water
What are the 4 levels of industry and what do they stand for?
primary: industries that harvest or extract natural resources
secondary: processing raw materials into industrial products that can be used to make finished goods
tertiary: provide services and distribution of final products to the market
quaternary: provides services that deal with data and knowledge. Sometimes referred to as the “high tech sector” or “intellectual activities sector”
How would you describe the 3 types of distribution patterns?
Clustered
Scattered
Linear
What is urban sprawl?
The unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large areas of land, with little concern for urban planning. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this development.
What are the 4 concepts of geographic thinking?
interrelationships
spatial distribution
patterns & trends
geo perspective
What is a climate graph?
What are the 5 types of stakeholders?
1. Government
2. Intergovernmental
3. Non Governmental Agencies
4. Activists
5. Consumers
What is a population pyramid?
horizontal bar graph that shows the number of male and female populations in a place.
What is sustainability?
Sustainability means the ability for something to keep going into the future.
avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance
What is georgaphy?
Geography is the study of the world’s environment, human societies, and humans’ interaction with the environment.
What is environmental racism?
describes how people of colour are more exposed than white people to harmful and deadly environmental factors while often not having a voice in the policy creation and decision-making about their own communities.
Why does the Lorax leave the word “Unless”?
The Lorax meant that unless someone cares about a situation, nothing will improve. The Once-ler didn't care about harming the land, birds, water, and animals while cutting down the Truffula trees.
How do you calculate the population growth rate?
Natural Increase Rate + Net Migration Rate x 100
1000
= Population Growth Rate %
Or
Natural Increase Rate + Net Migration Rate
10
= Population Growth Rate %
What are the 10 major land uses?
Residential – single unit, row housing, apartments
Commercial – stores, malls, offices, banks, restaurants, cinemas
Industrial – factories, warehouses, manufacturing
Transportation – roads, parking lots
Recreational – parks, bike paths, beaches, museums
Institutional – schools, churches, courts, police and fire stations, government
Open/Vacant Lot- empty space
Utilities- hydro, water tower
Agricultural- land used to grow food or for animal farming.
Communicational- Land used for telephone or cell power.