~Week 1~
What are human geographers interested in?
What is urban or built environments (buildings, roads, parks…)?
What are Interrelationships?
What is connections within or between natural and human environments?
What is a floodplain?
What is a flat area on the side of a river (the area that a river will flood onto)?
What is demographics?
What is the study of human populations?
What are the main land use types?
What are residential land use, commercial land use, industrial land use, institutional land use and recreational and open space.
What are physical geographers interested in?
What is the study of the natural environment (mountains, valleys...)?
When planted together what 3 plants support and benefit from each other?
What is corn (grows tall), beans (grows on corn, provides nitrogen) and squash(provides shade)?
How is a floodplain formed?
What is formed when a river's meanders swing back and forth on their way down to the sea?
How do you calculate the natural increase rate?
What is subtracting the death rate from the birth rate and If the number is more births than deaths, the population is growing. If there are more deaths than births, the population is shrinking?
What is the largest use of land in cities?
What is residential land use?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would have access to safe drinking water?
What is 83?
What is a sustainable society?
What is a society where we use resources in a mindful way so that future generations will also be able to use them?
What are the benefits of living at the rivers edge?
What is Floodplains are flat land that is easy to build on, good access to plentiful fresh water for drinking, washing, irrigation etc., predictable seasonal flooding that fertilizes local farmland, river flow that washes waste downstream and away, easy access to transportation?
How do you calculate the net migration rate?
What is subtracting the emigration rate from the immigration rate?
What are areas where goods and services are sold?
What is commercial land use?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would be undernourished?
What is 17?
When do you use the concept of Interrelationships?
What is Identifying where human and/or natural characteristics and processes interact or connect within and between each other, determining how the connections interact to form a system, analysing the impact of an event, process or development on the natural characteristics, natural processes and human activities that happen through the system?
What does the term “climate change” refer to?
What is the long-term alteration of weather patterns around the globe?
What is the goal of a political cartoon?
What is to make people think about an issue in a different way?
What is it called when the land is used for manufacturing, distribution, and storage?
What is industrial land use?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would be overweight?
What is 15?
When do you use the concept of Spatial Significance?
What is Identifying where places are located on the earth's surface based on natural and/or human characteristics, determining the unique characteristics of places, analysing the importance of spatial distribution of people, plants, animals, resources and earth's physical processes.
What do you call things that can cause Canadians unavoidable danger or risk?
What are phenomena hazards?
What are cartoons?
What are sketches or drawings that interest people by portraying persons, things, events, and or situations in an exaggerated way.
What is it called when the land is used for buildings for public services?
What is institutional land use?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would be male?
What is 50?
What is the art and skill of map making called?
What is cartography?
What are hazards a result of?
What is from the natural environment (earthquakes), or from the way people interact with natural and built spaces (chemical spill)?
What are the 3 indigenous groups Canada is home to?
What are First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would be female?
What is 50?
What is a landform?
What is a natural feature on the earth's surface?
How are earthquakes caused?
What is by the earth’s plates moving and releasing energy resulting in large or small earthquakes and tremors?
How do the indigenous view the land?
What is as source of what is needed and it should be used only when needed?
If the world was a hundred people, how many would be adults?
What is 80?
What are some examples of a landform?
What is mountains,hills, plains, plateaus,valleys and coastal features like beaches, peninsulas, and bays?
Where are floods in Canada?
What is anywhere water is above sea level (the oceans), there can be a flood?
What is The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)?
What is an agency that works to support people who are refugees or internally displaced people?
What does a Geographic Perspective have to consider?
What is considering social, economic, political, and/or environmental implications?
How old is the earth?
What is 46 billion years old?
Where are landslides in Canada?
What is anywhere that the land is sloped?
How are immigrants different from refugees?
What is Immigrants are not are not in danger and are not escaping a place of conflict, they are applying to come to Canada to settle permanently.
How do you find Patterns and Trends?
What is finding characteristics that repeat themselves (patterns) and finding characteristics that change over time in a predictable way (trends)?
What are the 3 directions that plates move?
What is Convergent (occurs when plates move toward each other), Divergent (occurs when plates move away from each other) and Transform (occurs when plates slide past each other in opposite directions)
What are natural resources?
What are materials we take from nature?
In the Happy Planet Index (2006), what did Canada rank?
What is 65th out of 151 countries?