Geo Intro
What are patterns and trends?
The arrangement of objects and any noticeable changes in the pattern.
Why is population loss not a problem in rural communities that are near large cities?
Because people can easily travel to the nearby city where there are plenty of job opportunities.
What is linear population?
When the population is settled along a line.
What is transform?
The plates move in roughly parallel, but opposite, directions.
What are intrusive rocks?
Igneous rocks that cool below earth’s surface.
What are interrelationships?
The relationship between things.
What is population density?
The average number of people living in a specific place by the area of the place.
What is concentrated population?
When the population is found in small patches.
What is divergent?
When 2 plates move apart.
What is deposition?
The building up of eroded materials in a new location.
What is spatial significance?
The importance of a location.
What is a survey system?
A grid system used to find pieces of land and roads.
What is dispersed population?
When the population is spread evenly across the land.
What is convergent?
2 plates move toward each other.
What is weathering?
The breaking down of rocks.
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living things (plants, animals and microbes) and the place they live.
What is an isodemographic map?
A map with the regular shape of the countries, but the size is based on how many people are living there proportionate to the land mass.
What are the 3 ways to describe the population of rural areas?
Dispersed, concentrated and linear.
What are the 3 possible types of plate movement?
Divergent, convergent and transform.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Changed versions of igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks.
What is geographic perspective?
A way of looking at the world that includes the geographic context.
What is a census metropolitan area (CMA)?
An urban area in Canada with a population over 100,000.
What are 4 interrelated aspects of physical geography that affect where people live and work in Canada?
Landforms, climate, natural vegetation and soils.
What is subduction?
The process of 1 plate sliding underneath another.
How is most sedimentary rocks created?
After many years of compaction and cementation of loose sediments.