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100

This winter structure is often falsely believed to be the home of many Canadians.

What is an igloo?

100

This person helps plan where buildings, parks, and roads should go in a city.

What is an urban planner?

100

This “R” means using something again instead of throwing it away.

What is reuse?

100

A population pyramid with a wide base usually shows this about a country’s birth rate.

What is a high birth rate?

100

All the characteristics of a community that contribute to the quality of life of the people who live there are known as this.

What is liveability?

100

This territory is all the way on the left (west) side of Canada’s map.

What is Yukon?

100

This natural disaster happens when the ground shakes because of movement in the Earth’s crust.

What is an earthquake?

100

Solar power, wind power, and hydro power are all examples of this type of resource.

What are renewable resources?

100

Canada uses this type of system to select immigrants based on their education, language skills, and work experience.

What is a points system?

100

This is the largely uncontrolled expansion of cities onto adjacent rural lands.

What is urban sprawl?

100

This type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and elevation.

What is a physical map?

100

 These tall landforms are usually colder at the top and can block rain from reaching the other side.

What are mountains?

100

This country has about 20% of the world’s freshwater, mostly in lakes, rivers, and glaciers.

What is Canada?

100

When a country’s population grows too quickly, it can lead to problems like not enough food, jobs, or housing. What is this issue called?

What is overpopulation?

100

This is the result of a detailed planning process that specifies what land uses are allowed in each part of a municipality.

What is zoning?

100

This part of B.O.L.T.S. shows how far things are in real life.

What is the scale?

100

This region is based on how people think about or describe a place, like “the North” or “the Middle East.”

What is a vernacular region?

100

This situation happens when people overuse a shared resource, choosing short-term personal gain even though it harms the group in the long run.

What is the tragedy of the commons?

100

To deal with urban growth, many cities build more of this type of transportation system.

What is public transit?

100

This index measures overall quality of life by combining wealth, health, and education indicators.

What is the Human Development Index?

100

This theme looks at how people, goods, or ideas travel from place to place.

What is movement?

100

Millions of years ago, all of Earth’s continents were joined together in one giant landmass before breaking apart into different regions. What was this landmass called?

What is Pangaea?

100

This industry involves collecting natural resources, like mining, fishing, or forestry.

What is the primary industry?

100

An aging population increases demand for this type of public service.

What is healthcare?

100

This measures how much productive land is needed to support a person’s resource use.

What is an ecological footprint?