Unit 1: Geography Skills
This geographic concept describes how humans depend on, adapt to, and modify the natural environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This landform region was formed when the Pacific Plate converged with the North American Plate.
What is the Rocky Mountains/Western Cordillera?
This type of industry involves extracting raw materials directly from the Earth.
What is Primary Industry?
People moving out of a country because of push factors.
What is Emigration?
This category of land use includes parks, trails, and conservation areas.
What is Recreation/Green Space?
The acronym MR. HELP represents the five themes of geography. The “L” stands for this theme.
The formation, movement and melting of ice sheets. They can deposit sediment as they move or melt, or they erode sediment wearing it down. What is this called?
What is Glaciation?
Fishing, mining, forestry, agriculture, and oil extraction are known as Canada’s _____.
What is the Top 5 Primary Industries of Canada?
This feature of a population pyramid shows the proportion of children and seniors compared to working-age adults.
What is Dependency Load?
The spread of cities outward into rural and farmland areas is known as this.
What is Urban Sprawl?
This type of location uses latitude and longitude coordinates.
What is Absolute Location?
Which LOWERN factor explains why coastal/maritime areas have a smaller annual temperature range?
What is Near Water?
An industry that sells products/services outside the community where they were made.
What is Basic Industry?
This historic settlement pattern uses a lot and road network that is parallel and perpendicular to lakes and rivers.
What is the Ontario Concession System?
A community design that promotes walkability, mixed land use, and reduced car dependence.
What is New Urbanism?
What is the Equator?
Which type of tectonic plate boundary plays a major role in earthquakes?
What is Transform Boundaries?
This type of economy follows the steps: extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal.
What is Linear Economy?
A triangular population pyramid with a wide bottom and narrow top usually represents this type of country.
Physical, social and economic access to sufficient and nutritious food is called this.
What is Food Security?
This geographic thinking concept focuses on the connection between the natural environment and human systems.
What is Interrelationships?
On a climate graph, what can you find when you subtract the coldest month's temperature from the warmest month's temperature?
What is Temperature Range?
Which group of people has historically emphasized shared land use and stewardship, over land ownership?
Who is Indigenous Communities?
Despite low birth rates, Canada's population is not declining. What is one of the main reasons why it hasn't declined?
What is Immigration?
This concept refers to meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
What is Sustainability?