Definitions
Five Environmental Factors
People and the Environment
Interaction in Geography
A Bit of Everything
100

It is defined as physical surroundings and conditions.

What is Environment

100

This environmental factor relates to the weather, temperature, and general living conditions of a place.

What is Climate?

100

This Canadian province was heavily affected by overfishing of cod around its shores.

What is Newfoundland and Labrador?

100

Interaction can be described as people affecting this (and vice versa).

What is the Earth?

100

The Whiskey Jack Forest Dispute happened for two reasons: local paper mills needing more resources, and this highway being constructed.

What is the Trans-Canada Highway?

200

The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.

What is the atmosphere?

200

This environmental factor deals with "worn rock particles and decayed organic material."

What is soil?

200

Hibernia was the name given to this workplace off the coast of Newfoundland.

Oil Field

200

One example of the challenges of interaction is the Whiskey Jack Forest Dispute - a concern where the Grassy Narrows First Nations reserve had a problem with local paper mills doing this to their forests.

What is Clear-Cutting?

200

Every year, this magazine rewards individuals and groups in Canada for supporting the environment.

What is Canadian Geographic?

300

The act or process of having an effect on each other.

What is Interaction?

300

Volcanoes, cliffs, valleys, and trenches are examples of this type of environmental factor.

What are Landforms?

300

At roughly 56N, 62W, lies Voisey's Bay, a project that mines what mineral?

What is Nickel?

300

Hurricane Mitch had winds up to 290km per hour, placing it in this category of hurricane.

What is a Category 5 Hurricane?

300

Environmental factors are the leading causes of animals being considered as "this:"

What is Endangered?

400

Plants that have not been introduced by humans.

What is Natural Vegetation?

400

Herbivores and omnivores love learning about this environmental factor, as it provides that vast majority of their food supply.

What is Natural Vegetation?

400

These people would use sonar (sound waves) to find large schools of fish deep in the waters.

Who are Offshore Fishers?

400

These structures in Segovia, Spain, were used to take water from nearby mountains and transport it to the locals.

What is an Aqueduct?

400

This title was given to fishermen who worked close to land. They were eventually replaced by another group when the fishing boundaries were extended.

Who are Inshore Fishers?

500

Removal of ore by digging directly into deposits near the surface.

What is Open-Pit Mining?

500

This environmental factor is agreed upon by scientists worldwide as the most fundamental substance for life.

What is Water?

500

After the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, countries extended their fishing borders to this distance away from shore.

What is 370km?

500

This is the name given to land that is owned by the provincial government and cannot be used commercially without permission.

What is Crown Land?

500

The amount of time that an Antarctic penguin can go without eating any food.

What is Three Months?