This theme can either be absolute (such as a street address) or relative (such as a nearby landmark).
What is location?
100
This region stretches from the Arctic Islands to Adirondack mountains in the U.S. It contains exposed rock and is the oldest region in Western Canada.
What is the Canadian Shield?
100
Whereas population density is the average number of people in a given area, this term refers to where people live in a given area.
What is population distribution?
100
This agreement involved stopping a $17 billion contract and giving $225 million in compensation.
What is the James Bay Agreement?
100
This is the study of the physical layout of earth. It includes topography, climate, vegetation, and wildlife.
What is Physical Geography?
200
This theme uses both Human Characteristics (languages, and customs) and Physical Characteristics (land forms) to describe an area.
What is place?
200
This region covers almost all of Alberta and is made up of horizontal layers of sedimentary rock. It is formed out of eroded material from the Canadian Shield.
What are the Interior Plains?
200
Statistics Canada defines this as one with a minimum population concentration of 1000 and a population density of at least 400 people per square km.
What is an Urban Area?
200
Although the James Bay Cree no longer have the same financial issues that other bands have, they still continue to face these types of problems.
What are social issues?
200
This is the study of humans' relationship with the Earth. It includes social/cultural geography, and political geography.
What is Human Geography?
300
This theme examines how humans depend on nature, modify nature, and adapt to nature.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
300
This region in British Columbia is made up of parallel mountain ranges that was originally formed when plate collisions caused the Earth's crust to buckle.
What are the Western Mountains?
300
These types of boundaries replaced natural boundaries because physical features are ill-suited for the purposes of indicating the extent of authority.
What are political boundaries?
300
In 1976, this resulted in large areas of traditional hunting,fishing, and trapping lands being flooded. It was also done with no consultation.
What is the diverging of the Churchill River?
300
This has resulted in the loss of multiple ancestral lands of the First Nations. This is due to the fact that they were drawn without the approval of the First Nations.
What are Political Boundaries?
400
This theme focuses on how people, goods, and ideas are transferred from place to place.
What is Movement?
400
The original state of the Canadian shield was made up of igneous rock. Much of the igneous rock has been changed into this type of rock.
What is meta-morphic rock?
400
A healthy economy is known as a "booming" economy. Often a "booming" economy is followed by a sudden fall. This type of a cycle is known as...
What is a Boom and Bust Cycle?
400
This person fought for a better school to be built in Attawapiskat by the government.
Who is Shannon Koostachin?
400
This is the known as the study of the Earth's Surface
What is Geography?
500
This can be defined on the basis of physical and human characteristics. It is what Geographers use to help them divide the world
What are Regions?
500
The Interior Plains contain these types of deposits which have been compressed between sedimentary layers.
What are fossil fuels and evaporites?
500
The Natives had used the environment for millennia without changing the landscape. Waves of immigrants have upset this.
What is the balance of cultural landscapes?
500
This joint venture is an example of a collaboration between the Osoyoos band and an outside group to create jobs and wealth for their communities.
What is Nk'mip Cellars?
500
In 2006, the Nisichawayashik Cree Nation signed a historic deal with Manitoba Hydro regarding this.