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Five Themes
Seven Regions
Terms to Know
Canadiana
Potpurri
100
The precise position on a globe.
What is Location?
100
The Appalachian region was once this type of land form.
What is a chain of volcanoes?
100
A slab of the earth’s crust, underneath all continents and ocean, regularly moving away and toward each other
What is a plate?
100
The region in which diamonds are mined.
What is the Arctic region?
100
The most active seismic area in Canada.
What is British Columbia (Juan de Fuca)?
200
Areas that have common characteristics, such as government, landforms, or climate.
What are Regions?
200
The Fraser River was a vital transportation route for in this region for Aboriginal peoples and Europeans, who came later, before the railways were constructed.
What is the Fraser River?
200
A natural fuel formed by geological forces from the remains of living organisms
What are fossil fuels?
200
This industry was a valuable resource in the Appalachian region until stocks ran out due to overuse.
What is the cod industry?
200
Economic exploitation of the Arctic may increase due to this.
What is Global Warming?
300
Tthe physical and cultural characteristics - How does the landscape affect us?
What is Place?
300
This region was formed by retreating ice sheets that covered most of Canada during the last ice age. The ice sheets pushed soils onto the area creating rich agricultural land.
What are the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
The study of the earth’s crust to learn its origin, history, and structure
What is Geology?
300
The first nations group that practiced farming in the St. Lawrence Lowlands.
Who are the Huron?
300
The equator is the warmest part of the planet because it is closest to this.
What is the sun?
400
Factors that change - How have we changed the land?
What is Human/Environment interaction?
400
This region of Canada is made up of parallel mountain ranges separated by a series of plateaus, trenches, and valleys.
What is the Cordillera region?
400
The distance of any point east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured up to 180 degrees
What is Longitude?
400
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the economy in the Cordillera region was based on this.
What is gold?
400
The polar ice caps and glaciers acted as one of these for the sun's rays, bouncing them back into space.
What is a mirror?
500
How people interact in the 21st century, globalization. How ideas are exchanged.
What is Movement (of people,objects, ideas)?
500
Much of the rock of this area has been changed into metamorphic rock creating many valuable minerals such as copper, gold, lead, diamonds, platinum, and nickel, making this area one of the world’s richest for mining.
What is the Canadian shield region?
500
An activity that maintains an ecological balance by avoiding the depletion of a natural resource
What is Sustainable?
500
European settlers nearly wiped this animal out of existence through over hunting and the destruction of natural habitat.
What is the Bison?
500
A coastal climate is also known as one of these.
What is a "maritime climate"?