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Geographic Skills
Physical Geography- Geology and Landforms
Physical Geography-Soil, Vegetation and Weather
Human Geography
Urban Geography
100
Representation of the earth's features drawn on a flat surface.
What is a map?
100
A scientist that studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
100
The dark upper layer of soil made up of partially decayed plant material.
What is humus?
100
The movement of large numbers of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
100
Outside towns and cities.
What is rural?
200
Measurement on a map that represents a actual distance on the earth's surface.
What is a scale?
200
Major division of Geologic Time for example the Paleozoic Era.
What are Eras?
200
The removal of minerals from the soil by water as it percolates downward through the soil in wet climate regions.
What is leaching?
200
A time after WWII when birth rates were extremely high.
What is the Baby Boom?
200
The movement of people and things from one place to another.
What is transportation?
300
The direction on a compass such as North or South.
What is a compass point?
300
The moutainous range that is located on the West coast of Canada.
What is the Western Corrdillera?
300
The generally West to East rapid movement of air in mid latitude areas at an altitude of 8000 to 15000m.
What is a jetstream?
300
One category of immigrant to Canada who is sponsored by a close relative who is already a Canadian resident.
What is a family immigrant?
300
How urban, suburban or rural land is and can be used.
What is land use?
400
The distance North or South of the Equator measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
400
The cycle in which rocks are formed and minerals change their state.
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
Precipitation caused when an air mass is forced to rise over an elevated land mass.
What is relief precipitation?
400
The movement of people between provinces.
What is interprovincial migration?
400
When one or more Metropolises dominate the economic, cultural and political life of a country.
What is Metropolitan Dominance
500
The distance East and West of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
500
A supercontinent which included all the Earth's land masses.
What is Pangaea?
500
Coniferous forest that streches across Canada South of the tundra but North of the Grasslands and Mixed forest regions.
What is boreal or taiga forest?
500
Composed of many cultural groups that are encouraged to maintain their heritage.
What is multicultural?
500
An expensive product that is infrequently purchased.
What is a high order product?