Human
A family leaves their country because of war and unsafe living conditions. War is considered this type of migration factor.
What is a push factor?
The type of resources that regenerate themselves naturally in 100 years or less.
What are renewable resources?
Lines that are used to calculate the elevation on a map.
What are contour lines?
The last supercontinent which began to break apart 180 to 200 million years ago.
What is pangaea?
This country has the largest population in the world as of 2026.
What is India?
In our “build your community” activity, choosing more highways instead of public transit led to this major environmental problem increasing over time.
What is pollution (or greenhouse gas emissions)?
The category for selling goods or services to people within the local community.
What are non-basic industries?
The name for the numbers that are the alternative for different cardinal directions. Used for finding direction.
What are compass bearings? (what are degrees?)
This person came up with the Theory of Continental Drift in 1912.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This desert is the largest hot desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The section of a population who are not employed or contributing to taxes.
Who are dependents? (what is the dependency load?)
This type of economy is based mainly on farming, fishing, mining, and other activities that use natural resources directly from the environment.
What is a primary industry?
The three basic questions Geographers seek to understand
What is where? Why there? Why care?
Rock which forms when magma solidifies underground. Example: granite
What is Igneous Intrusive Rock?
This river is the longest in the world according to most geography textbooks.
What is the Nile River?
The demographic group / generation that are ages 60 to 80 in 2026.
What are baby boomers?
The type of job where most Canadians are employed.
What is the service industry?
Imaginary lines running North to South which are used to measure distance East and West relative to the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude? (What are meridians?)
The type of climate usually located near the ocean.
What is Maritime Climate?
This is both a continent and a country.
What is Australia?
Eventually the Birth Rate falls below the Death Rate and the population decreases. Natural Increase Rate is Negative.
What is population stage 5?
The type of industry that involves manufacturing products by putting things together.
What is secondary industry?
Town A and B are 10 cm apart on a map. The scale of the map is 1:50,000. This is the distance in kilometers from Town A to Town B.
What is 5km?
This occurs on the leeward side of the mountain, where deserts are often found.
What is a rain shadow?
This city is famous for being built across two continents: Europe and Asia.
What is Istanbul?