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Definition of Geography |
Geography is the science that tries to understand how the earth works and how human change it. |
Geography is the science... |
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Geographers try and answer 3 questions. These questions include |
Where are things located on earth? What are the connections between people and the earth? How can we illistr this information to understand it better? |
Where? What? Hoe? |
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Geography has 2 main focuses. |
Physical geography and human geography |
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What is the definition of a map? |
Map represents the earths features drawn on a flat surface. |
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What are all the features of a map? |
Title, legend, scale, direction, border, date of publication. |
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What is the definition of cartography? |
Cartography is the art of drawing accurate, easily readable, attractive maps. |
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There are four different types of maps, what are they? |
General purpose map – bike trail map. Topographic map – map of Canada‘s mountains. Thematic map- people living in Peterborough. Digital map – Google maps. |
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Name all the provinces and capitals of Canada. |
Newfoundland Dash Saint johns, PEI – Charlottetown, Nova Scotia – Halifax, New Brunswick- fredricton |
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On a compass there are four ordinal points what are they? |
North south east and west |
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On a compass there are 12 cardinal points, what are they? |
North north west, east east south ect. |
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Name all the Great Lakes in order from left to right. |
Superior Michigan Huron Erie Ontario Send Me Help E O |
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What is the highest peak in Canada? |
Mount Logan. |
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How many Time zones are there in Canada |
Six. |
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There are four layers to the earth, what are they and what are they made of? |
Crust – thin layer of rock that covers the earth surface. Mantle – thick magma that consistently moves. Outer core – liquid, made of iron and nickel, it can be up to 4000° F. Inner core – solid metals, super super hot. |
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There have been four eras in the earth what are they? |
Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, precambrian. |
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What is Pangaea? |
The supercontinent. |
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How many plates is the earth made of? |
20 |
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What are the 2 types of plates the earth is made of ? |
Oceanic Continental
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There are three types of plate boundaries |
Convergence Divergent Transformation |
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What type of volcanos are around the ring of fire |
Sutton, highly active vilcanos |
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Define all of the plate boundaries |
Convergent Divergent Transformation |
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Whats the rock cycle? |
Magma Ingenious Sedimentary Metamorphic |
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What are the 7 landform regions in canada? |
Arctic Cordelia Interior planes Canadian sheild Hudson bay low lands St.Lawrence lowlands Appalachian regions |
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Soil is divided into 4 things they are... |
Top- rich organic Sub- oils and minerals Parent- Glaciation deposits Bedrock |
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What is leaching |
Downward movement of water |
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What is calcification |
Upwards movement of water |
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Name all 14 ecozones |
Boreal shield, northern arctic, tiga sheld , southern arctic, boreal planes, taiga plains, montaine, boreal cordillia, prarie, hidsons plains, taiga cordilia, artic cordillia, pacific maritime, atlantic maritime, mixed wood plains |
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5 main modes of transportation |
Rode rail air water pipeline |
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Whats the urban higharchy |
Suberb- city- metropolis |
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Rual higherarchy |
Hamlet- village- town |
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What is demography |
The study of populations. |
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What is the dependency load? |
The part of the population that is made up of two age groups. |
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What is global village? |
The idea that our world is one, |
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What is counter urbanization, and when has it become a trend? |
The movement down the urban hierarchy. This has been a trend since the late 1970s. |
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What are the 3 categories of people living in rual areas? |
Newcomers- retain tie to urban core, (rich) Homecomers- young families returning to provide an upbringing for children. Ruralites- never lived in the city |
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What is a ecological footprint? |
The earths cost to sustain 1 person, mesured in hectares |
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Whats the world average ecological footprint? |
2.2 hectars |
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Whats Canada’s ecological footprint? |
8.6 hectares |
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Whats the highest ecological footprint? |
9.6 hectars- USA |
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Whats the smallest ecological footprint? |
0.5 hectars- Bangladas |
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