Unit 1: Inquiry and Skills
Unit 2: Physical Geography
Unit 3: Sustainability and Economics
Unit 4: Human Geography
MISC
100
What are 2 of the big 5 themes in geography?
Location, place, human/environmental interaction, movement, regions
100
What are the layers of the earth in order?
Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
100
What is the significance of an "overshoot day"?
Indicates when we would run out of necessary global resources for the year if everyone had the same ecological footprint as you
100
Vertical farming is posed as a potential solution to issues caused by what phenomenon?
Urbanization
100
Name 4/5 of the Great Lakes
HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
200
Which groups are included under the umbrella term "Indigenous"?
First Nations, Métis and Inuit
200
This semester, we learned about the geologic time scale. Of the following (randomized order), which is the largest and which is the smallest? -- Epochs, periods, eons, eras, ages
Largest: eons
Smallest: ages
200
What is the "Tragedy of the Commons"?
When a shared natural resource becomes depleted because of self interest and overconsumption instead of conserved for the common good
200
What parent-child ratio does Hans Rosling highlight as essential to achieve in order to monitor global overpopulation?
1:1 (i.e. 2 parents have 2 children)
200
What is an example of a secondary industry?
Manufacturing and production of goods using natural resources
300
What are the 2 major categories we use to describe the characteristics of PLACE?
Human and physical characteristics
300
What is the most popular theory of when the Anthropocene begins?
1800s/Early Industrial Revolution
300
What phenomenon is present when a historically Indigenous community is displaced to a region with poor water quality and high levels of extreme pollution?
Environmental Racism (There's Something in the Water)
300
A historically disinvested neighbourhood experiencing rapid structural, demographic and socioeconomic change is often experiencing what?
Gentrification
300
The theory of continental drift is most often used to explain the existence of what supercontinent?
Pangaea
400
What is the purpose of a Wampum belt?
Means of recording treaties and history
400
Name 4/6 of the LOWERN factors that impact climate
Latitude, Ocean Currents, Wind & Air Movement, Elevation, Relief, Near Water
400
Name 2/4 of the categories of food insecurity solutions presented by the Beyond Hunger report
Targets and Reporting, Income Solutions, Social Programs, Equitable Progress
400
What are the 3 main categories of immigration in Canada?
Economic, family and refugee
400
Who stated that "the Holocene is our garden of Eden"?
David Attenborough
500
Approximately what % of Canada's population is Indigenous as of our last national census data? (must be within 2% of the correct answer)
Approx. 5%
500
Name at least 3 of Canada's unique landform regions
Canadian Shield, Appalachian Mountains, Western Cordillera, The Innuitian Mountains, The Arctic Lowlands, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, Interior Plains
500
Name at least 4 of the UN's 17 sustainable development goals
500
We divide urban land use into a number of categories (transportation, institutional, recreational/green space, industrial, commercial and residential). What tend to be the biggest 2 categories?
transportation and residential
500
What are 2/4 of the guiding themes of geography that we use to guide our geographic inquiry, especially when analysing GIS data?
Interrelationships, Spatial significance, geographic perspective, patterns and trends