Landforms(7)
A flat, rocky base created when an ancient mountain region has been worn away.
What is a shield?
This is the maximum number of people that an area can support without running out of resources
What is carrying capacity?
This migration to Canada was sparked by the Industrial Revolution
What is the Great Migration of Canada?
Changing the surface of the land to create homes, malls and highways is an example of how ___________ change the land.
Who are people?
These are the four main types of landforms.
What are Mountains, Plateaus, Shields, Valleys?
This type of land that has fertile soil in a moderate climate attracts many people.
What is arable land?
A period that brought huge growths in Medicine, Technology, Sanitation, and Nutrition.
What is the industrial revolution?
The flowing of water can cause these to form
What are valleys ?
This type of landform is created when the earth shifts, pushing land above the surface. Also called tablelands.
What are plateaus?
As education levels increase, birth levels __________.
What is decrease?
As fewer people needed to work on farms to provide food for the community. People began to move away from these communities
What are rural communities?
This is a theory that the earth’s crust is made up of several plates that are pushed by the forces inside of earth.
What is Plate Tectonics?
These are are generally flat to gently rolling stretches of land.
What are plains?
Migrants that leave their home countries because they fear they will be harmed due to their political beliefs are called:
What are political refugees?
This invention that occurred during the industrial revolution was monumental for transportation.
What is the steam engine?
The places where two plates of the lithosphere are moving apart
What are divergent boundaries?
This is a mountainous landform through which fluid and semi-fluid material from far beneath Earth’s surface escapes.
What is a volcano?
Birth rate, death rate and migration all have an impact on this.
What is the growth rate?
The world’s population grew from 700 million to 1 billion people during the __________ Revolution
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the circular motion that occurs when warmer material rises and is replaced by cooler material.
What is convection flow?