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Map Skills
100
A landform region that covers half of Canada, has many small lakes and rivers, coniferous trees and a hard, igneous rock.
What is the Canadian Shield.
100
The process of logging where all trees are cut down in an area.
What is clear-cutting.
100
The increase of temperature on the Earth's surface caused by unnatural changes in atmosphere and ozone depletion.
What is global warming.
100
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration.
100
The imaginary lines going horizontally and vertically across the Earth's surface.
What is latitude and longitude lines.
200
The landform region that consists of round-topped mountains because of erosion and fertile soil.
What is the Appalachians.
200
The industry where raw materials are obtained.
What is primary industry.
200
An underground formation of permeable rock which can produce useful quantities of water.
What is an aquifer.
200
Things that attract people to a place, ex. job opportunities, peace, free health care.
What is a pull factor.
200
The most important line of longitude, found in Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian.
300
The zone of molten magma between the crust and the core of the Earth.
What is the mantle.
300
The type of mining that is used when the minerals are close to the Earth's surface, very cheap and relatively simple.
What is strip mining.
300
A system that occurs when everything produced within the cycle stays in the cycle.
What is a closed system.
300
When many people move from rural areas to urban areas, causing them to grow.
What is urbanization.
300
This consists of people and things related or made by people, such as cities.
What is human geography.
400
The study of plate movement to understand the formation of mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is plate tectonics.
400
More people work in this sector than any other industry. The services industry.
What is tertiary industry.
400
The process in which pesticides accumulate as they travel up the food chain.
What is biomagnification.
400
The smallest kind of settlement, consisting of about 8 to 10 buildings.
What is a hamlet.
400
Thin, brown lines used to show surface elevation on topographic maps.
What is contour lines.
500
The theory in which people believe that the continents were once joined (as Pangea), and that they gradually moved apart.
What is continental drift.
500
The high-technology sector of industry, "research and development"
What is quaternary industry.
500
The act of preserving the environment for the future generations, includes planning and management of environment resources.
What is stewardship.
500
People are encouraged to keep their cultural heritage as well as committing to Canadian culture.
What is multiculuralism.
500
A person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer.