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Vocabulary
Great Lakes
Canada
Tools of Geography
Urban Sprawl
100
The precise location of a place
What is absolute location?
100
A community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live
What is ecosystem?
100
Found in or living in a city
What is urban?
100
The study of Earth and its people
What is the Geography
100
a developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes.
What is a suburb?
200
The location of one place compared to another
What is relative location?
200
A geographic area that includes all of the land and waterways that drain into a body of water.
What is watershed?
200
a society in which different cultural groups keep their own identity, beliefs and traditions
What is plural society?
200
Lists each symbol and explains what it shows on the map
What is map legend or key
200
a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it.
What is metropolitan area?
300
A change in the shape, size or position of a place when it is shown on a map.
What is Distortion?
300
pollution from a single source, such as a discharge pipe at a sewage treatment plant or factory.
What is point-source pollution?
300
The region in which most people in Canada live?
What is Core Region?
300
The study of people as they have spread across the Earth.
What is human geography
300
the rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas?
What is urban sprawl?
400
A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface
What is Map projection
400
Zebra mussels, Asian Carp, and alewife are examples of this.
What is invasive species?
400
The main reason why so few people live in Canada’s Northern Region
What is harsh winters?
400
the earth's tilt creates these.
What is seasons?
400
The people opposed to Urban sprawl are mainly against?
What is habitat loss?
500
System of longitude and latitude allows people to locate any point on the Earth’s surface
What is global grid?
500
Run off is an example of this.
What is what is non-point-source pollution?
500
Ice skating on a frozen canal in winter is an example of how Canadians in Ottawa have ______
What is adapted to their environment?
500
Goode's homolosine projections show continents but distort these
What is oceans?
500
boundary is a legal border that separates urban land from rural land.
What is urban growth boundaries?