Where something is located in comparison to something.
give an example.
What is relative location?
ex. Surrey is 30 minutes east of Vancouver by car.
100
Forests/wood, copper, gold, fish, coal.
What are the natural resources of the Cordillera region?
100
Covers British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and part of the Northwest Territories.
What is the Cordillera?
100
Barriers to human settlement and often limit the range of plant and animal species.
What are mountains?
100
Different ways of interaction humans use.
Ex. communication, travel and trade.
What is movement?
200
10707 146 Street
What is absolute location?
200
Orchards, farming.
What are the natural resources in the St. Laurence Lowlands?
200
This region covers Alberta, Saskatchewan, part of Manitoba and part of the Northwest Territories.
What are the Interior Plains?
200
Earth's crust is made of 10-12 of these.
What are tectonic plates?
200
These processes refer to changes caused by or things related to the air. Example, wind (erosion)
What are atmospheric processes?
300
Defined by governmental and administrative boundaries. They are not open to dispute.
Give an example.
What is a formal region?
ex. North America, British Columbia, Surrey etc.
300
Iron, lead, zinc.
What are the natural resources in the Appalachian region?
300
Covers the northern regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
What is the Arctic?
300
These occur when plates collide. The collision causes enormous pressure, friction, and stress along the plate boundary.
What are fold mountains?
300
This mountain range has affected settlement patterns in Canada.
What is the Cordillera region?
400
A construct that reflects human feelings and attitudes about areas and are defined by people's shared subjective images of those areas.
Give an example.
What is a perceptual region?
ex. the ghetto, the Maritimes, the Middle East, the South.
400
Diamond, zinc, lead, and iron.
What are the natural resources of the Arctic?
400
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, P.E.I, Newfoundland and Labrador.
What is the Appalachian region?
400
This type of weathering dissolves rock, and rushing streams can carry the material down mountain sides and deposit it in lakes and along river banks.
What is chemical weathering?
400
How has Canada's geography influenced Canadian identity?
What is varied landscape, causing diversity?
500
Things that make a place better for people to live.
Give an example for the Arctic.
What are environmental advantages?
ex. Clean air to breathe, constant supply of water.
500
Copper, gold, lead, platinum, diamonds, and nickle.
What are the natural resources of the Canadian Shield?
500
Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
What is the Canadian Shield?
500
This is the most important agent of erosion by getting into crevices of rocks and breaks them up in the freeze-thaw cycle.
What is water?
500
This region is the most favourable for agriculture. Why?
What are the St. Laurence Lowlands? Because there is mineral rich soil.