Unit 1
This winter structure is often falsely believed to be the home of many Canadians.
What is an igloo?
This person helps plan where buildings, parks, and roads should go in a city.
What is an urban planner?
This “R” means using something again instead of throwing it away.
What is reuse?
A population pyramid with a wide base usually shows this about a country’s birth rate.
What is a high birth rate?
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?
This territory is all the way on the left (west) side of Canada’s map.
What is Yukon?
This natural disaster happens when the ground shakes because of movement in the Earth’s crust.
What is an earthquake?
Solar power, wind power, and hydro power are all examples of this type of resource.
What are renewable resources?
Canada uses this type of system to select immigrants based on their education, language skills, and work experience.
What is a points system?
This is the largely uncontrolled expansion of cities onto adjacent rural lands.
What is urban sprawl?
This type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and elevation.
What is a physical map?
These tall landforms are usually colder at the top and can block rain from reaching the other side.
What are mountains?
This country has about 20% of the world’s freshwater, mostly in lakes, rivers, and glaciers.
What is Canada?
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?
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?
This part of B.O.L.T.S. shows how far things are in real life.
What is the scale?
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?
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?
To deal with urban growth, many cities build more of this type of transportation system.
What is public transit?
This index measures overall quality of life by combining wealth, health, and education indicators.
What is the Human Development Index?
This theme looks at how people, goods, or ideas travel from place to place.
What is movement?
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?
This industry involves collecting natural resources, like mining, fishing, or forestry.
What is the primary industry?
An aging population increases demand for this type of public service.
What is healthcare?
This measures how much productive land is needed to support a person’s resource use.
What is an ecological footprint?