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📕🌐Canadian Geo5️⃣🌐📕 Flashcards

1
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What are the three largest cities in Canada and what percentages of the population do they make up?

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Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver

Home to 35% of Canadians

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Why is the Golden Horseshoe known as Canada’s heartland?

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Because of the economic and industrial activity

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What percentages of Canadians choose to live in large population centers?

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81%

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The outward expansion of urban centers to nearby boundary areas, including farmland.

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Urban sprawl

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5
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Land found in urban areas that is protected from development

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Greenbelt

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6
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Why are green belts important

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  • insures environment management and conservation of natural resources
  • they provide prime farmland to local farmers
  • contain freshwater sources
  • contain a number of Canada’s endangered animal species
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Noxious mixture of air pollution

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Smog

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fewer than 200 people (ex:Swift current)

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Hamlet

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200-800 people (ex:Greenspond)

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Village

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1’000-10’000 people (ex:new Wes valley)

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Town

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greater than 10’000 people (ex:St.Johns)

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City

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12
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greater than 100’000 people

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Census Metropolis Area (CMA)

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With the _______ census, Statistics Canada created the term population center, to more specifically define urban areas

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2011

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area with at least 1000 people and a population density of at least 400/km2

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Population centres

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Population centres are divided into three categories state them and how many people they each have

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  • Small: between 1000 and 29’999 people
  • Medium: between 30’000 and 99’999 people
  • Large: 100’000 or more
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16
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is a term that geographers and planners use to identify the different areas that people use to work, shop, play, and go to school

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Land use

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17
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Identify the 6 types of land uses

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  • residential land:
  • Transportation land:
  • Commercial land:
  • Industrial land:
  • Institutional land:
  • Open space and recreational land:
18
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What is the CMA with the largest population in Canada

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Toronto

19
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What is the fastest growing CMA in Canada

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Calgary, Alberta

20
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Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto are home to ______% of Canada’s population

A

35%

21
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What rural place in NL had a 40.6% increase in population between 2006 and 2011

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Paradise

22
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What is another name for Canada’s headland?

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The Golden Horseshoe

23
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How many people live in the Golden Horseshoe

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8.5 million

24
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Traffic congestion in Canada’s nine biggest cities costs the economy ______ dollars in delays, wasted fuel, and gas emissions

A

3.7 billion dollars

25
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An estimated _____ Canadians hit the road everyday to go to work

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10 million

26
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About ____% of nitrogen oxides that lead to the formation of smog is produced when we burn fuels in our cars, trucks, generate energy, etc.

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95%

27
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Concept that involved plans for urban expansion that also preserve the natural environment

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Smart growth

28
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The movement to reform the design of physical communities

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New urbanism

29
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A place where people could live, work, and shop without ever having to get in their car

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Complete cities

30
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List 4 characteristics of smart growth urban planning

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  • mix land use: put homes, stores, and services within walking distance
  • provide a variety of transportation choices
  • create places for safe walking, biking
  • protect green space
31
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Environmentally conscious ways of constructing buildings

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Green technologies

32
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The process of communicating electronically to work

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Telecommuting

33
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The amount of the earth’s resources it takes to support your lifestyle, measured in hectares

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Ecological footprint

34
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List 5 factors that make up ecological footprint

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  • water use
  • transportation use
  • how much moneys you spend
  • how much garbage your create
  • how much living space you have
35
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Gradual increase in wealth that can be invested in new development

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Accumulation of capital

36
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Distinguish between the terms rural and urban

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Rural are places with low population densities and urban are places with high population densities and more crammed

37
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Things Countries with the larges ecological footprint have in common:

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  • Are highly developed
  • Are predominantly English speaking
  • Are in middle latitudes
  • Are consumer based communities
  • Are demographic
  • Have low fertility rates
  • Have excellent medical service
  • Have high literacy rates
38
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Things Countries with the smallest ecological footprint have in common:

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  • Are developing countries
  • Located in lower latitudes
  • Relatively densely populated
  • High fertility rates
  • Limited medical service
  • Low literacy rates
39
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The growth trend and increasing numbers of people living in cities

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Urbanization

40
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What are the opportunities and challenges of living in a resource-based community

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A few opportunities of living in a resource-based community include many employment opportunities and other business opportunities. But a challenge of living in resource base communities is there is little accumulation of capital and if the resource runs out there are no longer any jobs

41
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What was the cause for the growth of the Western Canada

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The growth of western Canada is due to the natural systems. Western Canada gave rise to many ports and trading posts. Had a moderate climate and an abundance of fish stocks. Also had good forests for the forestry.

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Why is the Golden horseshoe a popular place

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The Golden horseshoe is a popular place for settlement because it has access to the waterways of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes. This made a good transportation route and good trade route. Also had hospitable climate and rich soils

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