Geographic Literacy
Natural Resources
Food from the Land
Industry and Trade
Urban Places
100
WSW (West South West)
What is 292.5 degrees on a compass rose?
100
Oil, lumber, coal, hydro, water, minerals, wind, natural gas
What are some examples of natural resources?
100
0.5%
What percentage of Canada's land is excellent quality for farming?
100
United States
What is Canada's number 1 export destination?
100
Urban
What is a town of 1000 people or more?
200
Compass Bearings
What tells you which way north is so you can find out other points?
200
Something that has occurred/occurs naturally in the land that we can collect for our use or for trade purposes
What is the definition of natural resources?
200
86.8%
What percentage of Canada's land has no farming capability?
200
1.United States 2.China 3.Mexico 4.Japan 5.Germany
What are Canada's top 5 import sources?
200
Rural
What is an outside town or city?
300
Ottawa
What is the capital of Canada?
300
Coal
What is the name of a fossil fuel that is in a form of a rock?
300
More money, less space, closer to markets and large labor investments
Why is intensive farming more common around densely populated areas like cities?
300
Primary Industry
What refers to an industry involved in obtaining raw materials from the natural environment?
300
Urban Growth
What refers to a measure of the actual number of people added to a cities population?
400
24
How many time zones are there?
400
Nonrenewable Resources
What resources can't be replaced, or nature will take a long time to replace?
400
Beef cattle, wheat and grain.
What are some of the types of farming in Regina?
400
Actor, pro athlete, librarian, etc
What are some examples of tertiary industry?
400
Mixedwood Plains and Prairie
Where do most of Canada's rural residents live?
500
Direct Statement Scale
What is it called when words are used to describe the relationship between a distance on a map and a specific distance on the Earth's surface?
500
Wind energy, hydroelectric power, solar energy
What are renewable resources?
500
Extensive Farming
What uses large amounts of land with limited amounts of labor and capital?
500
$325.2 billion
What is Mixedwood Plains GDP amount?
500
Proportion of a country's total population living in urban places
What does urbanization refer to?
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