Geography Literacy
Of the five themes of Geography, this theme divides the world into manageable areas based on similar characteristics.
What are regions?
A substance that can be used and replaced within a human time frame.
What is a renewable resource?
Most Canadian fisheries operate on this coast.
What is the Atlantic Coast?
A negative consequence of urbanization could include this.
Greater Air pollution
Increased poverty levels
80 percent of Canadians live in this type of "place"
A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat
What is a Biome?
The three pillars of sustainability are made up of these three pillars.
What is economic, environmental and social?
Most of Canada's wheat is produced in this province.
What is Saskatchewan?
A positive outcome of urbanization could include this.
Employment opportunities
Access to more products
Better transportation
A type of large city that typically has a population of over 10 million.
What is a megacity.
The two main subfields of Geography.
What is Physical and Human Geography?
Canada has the third largest reserve of this natural resource.
What is Oil?
The stages of food production involve growing, processing, marketing and this.
What is transportation?
The technical term for services sector in terms of industry.
What is tertiary industry?
A con to living in an urban area can include this.
Noise
Lack of Space
Higher Crime Rates
Human's engaging in agriculture is an example of which geographic theme?
Human-Environment interaction.
Canada has 20 percent of the earth's this natural resource.
What is freshwater?
a chemical or natural substance added to soil to increase its productivity.
What is fertilizer?
the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is globalization?
What locational factors would negatively affect a city being built. (Name three)
Lack of access to resources
Remote location (hard to get resources shipped in)
Bad Climate Conditions
What are the five themes of of geography?
location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
Shoal Lake 40 reserve was forcefully moved to supply water to this city.
What is Winnipeg?
What is a potential consequence that climate change will have on food production?
length of growing seasons change
some crops may no longer be viable
some areas no longer adequate for agriculture
industries that harvest or extract raw material from nature are examples of this.
What is a primary industry?
List 3 characteristics a sustainable city would have.
Public Transport
Walkable/bikable neighbourhoods
vehicle charging stations
Solar Farms