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Place & Movement
Environment & Interaction
Regions
Physical Landforms
Rivers
100
This type of location is a description of a place in relations to other places nearby.
What is relative location (p. 8)
100
This species of fish was overfished in the 1990's off the coast of Newfoundland. Their population is too low to be able to continue fishing them, which has resulted in many people losing their jobs.
What is Cod (p. 27-28)
100
This is the name for the region that includes Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Egypt.
What is the Middle East (p. 46)
100
This event occurs when two tectonic plates collide, slide past, or slip over one another
What is an earthquake (p. 69)
100
This is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River (p. 82)
200
This city - Canada's largest - is also home to the greatest number of people who use public transit to get to work
What is Toronto (p. 16)
200
This type of fisher fish deeper waters away from the shore and use larger boats and more powerful equipment and technology. They are often able to process and freeze their catch right on board!
What are Offshore fishers (p. 27)
200
This type of region is an area drained by a particular river system.
What is a watershed (p. 48)
200
This is the sudden rise in seas level caused by high winds which pushes water toward coastlines
What is a storm surge (p. 67)
200
This is the second longest river in the world
What is the Amazon River (p. 82)
300
These are the 3 different way to move shipping containers, also known as the Container Freight System (CFS)
What are trucks, trains, and ships (p. 17-18)
300
Before 1982, other countries were allowed to fish this close to Canada - pretty much right in our backyards!
What is 5 km (p. 28)
300
There are 15 of these regions in Canada. We live in the "mixed wood plains".
What are ecozones (p. 50)
300
This type of landform can be classified as composite cone, shield cone, or strata cone.
What is a volcano (p. 70)
300
This is the longest river in North America, and third longest in the world.
What is the Mississippi-Missouri River (p. 82)
400
The flow of people, products, information, and elements, is also known as this.
What is movement (p. 14)
400
After the fishing industry in Newfoundland collapsed, these 2 resources were discovered, giving hope to locals for a prosperous future.
What are oil and nickel (p. 30-31)
400
Over time, more and more Canadians have moved AWAY from this human region, and into urban environments.
What are Rural regions (p. 57)
400
The loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of this vocano in 1883. It was heard 4800 km away and was as loud as canon fire!
What is Krakatoa
400
This river in China was dammed in a huge hydroelectric power project called the Three Gorges Dam project. 75 million farmers and fishers were forced to move because of the rising waters.
What is the Yangtze River (p. 83)
500
Canada is positioned on Earth in 2 different hemispheres. Name them.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres (p. 9)
500
These are the 5 environmental factors that effct all living things.
What are Lnadforms, Climate, Water, Soils, and Natural Vegetation (p. 25-26)
500
This region makes up a huge swatch of Canada, strecthing from Northern Alberta all the way to Newfoundland. It is known for many bare rocky areas and large expanses of forests, and supports moose, bears, deer, beavers, wolves, and many other forms of Canadian wildlife.
What is the Boreal Shield Ecozone
500
Huge, crumpled ridges where plates collide are found all around the world including along North America's west coast and in Southeast Asia, north of India. This is what we call the ridges of rock.
What are fold mountains (p. 74)
500
These are the two main types of drainage patterns.
What are dendritic and trellis drainage (p. 84)