Vocabulary
This term describes having a way to get or use a resource, not just having it exist near you.
What is Access?
This local resource helps citizens travel to grocery stores and libraries if they do not have a car.
What is Transit (Transportation)?
This is the barrier to resources caused specifically by difficult terrain or long distances.
What is Geographic Isolation?
These historical Canadian schools denied Indigenous children their language, family connections, and cultural resources.
What are Residential Schools?
This is the main goal when creating a community where resources are spread out fairly for everyone.
What is Equitable Resource Distribution?
This is the difference between everyone getting the same thing versus everyone getting what they specifically need to succeed.
What is Equality vs. Fairness (Equity)?
This Nanaimo neighborhood was compared to Lantzville to show how different locations have different resources.
What is Downtown (or Harewood)
This interactive website allowed us to look inside homes around the world to compare how different families spend their income.
What is Dollar Street (Gapminder)?
This 1914 incident involved a ship being turned away from Canada, denying resources and safety to the passengers.
What is the Komagata Maru incident?
This is a resource that helps citizens grow, such as schools, libraries, or new technology.
What is an Education (or Growth) Resource?
This describes things people must have to survive, like food and shelter, rather than things they simply desire.
What are Needs vs. Wants?
This BC organization provides supports and workers for adults with developmental disabilities to help remove barriers.
What is CLBC (Community Living BC)?
This geographic feature makes it hard for a country like Nepal to build roads or move resources easily because of these massive obstacles.
What are Mountains?
This can be a significant cause of conflict when groups or governments fight over who gets to control resources.
What is Economic self-interest?
This type of resource includes hospitals, clean air, and parks to keep citizens well.
What is a Health Resource?
This is defined as having limited access to resources, rather than being a personal choice.
What is Poverty?
These are the two Nanaimo locations used to show why groceries might cost more in remote areas compared to the city.
What are Nanaimo and Northern BC?
DAILY DOUBLE: This term describes a country that has no direct access to the ocean, making trade more difficult and expensive.
What is Landlocked?
This is the process of making a decision that weighs conditions humanely.
What is Ethical Judgement?
In your dream location, you had to ensure this was well planned so that citizens could reach essential destinations.
What is Transit (Roads, Busses)?
These are specific obstacles, like lack of transportation or high costs, that prevent people from reaching resources.
What are Barriers?
This type of support helps people with health conditions by providing guaranteed monthly funding for survival.
What is PWD (Persons with Disabilities)?
This is the study of how geography, history, and trade work together to decide which areas of the world have the most resources.
What is Global Inequality?
Extension: This thing often drives different countries or communities to war.
What is resources?
Every dream location requires this basic resource to sustain life. (And I mean BASIC)
What is water?