Chapter 1 - Geography Flashcards

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What are three types of regions?

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Formal, functional, perceptual

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What are five factors that affect climate?

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Wind direction
Altitude
Latitude
Distance from sea
Ocean currents
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When things sell for more…

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…sellers bring more to market

Price increases, supply increases

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When prices are high…

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…companies make more

Price increases, production increases

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As supply increases…?

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Demand decreases.

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Canada’s economy is best described as

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Resource based

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As buyers desire a product…

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…it’s value goes up

Demand increases, price increases

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When things are cheap…

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…buyers tend to buy more

Price decreases, demand increases

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What are the four different themes of geography?

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Location
Place
Region
Human/environmental
Movement of people & objects
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Lands formed by glaciers are known for…

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…their great soil & fresh water

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What’s continental drift?

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The theory that suggests the continents had once been joined and had drifted apart.

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What are 4 evidence of continental drift?

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Common fossils
Shared mountain range
Common coastlines
Glacial deposition

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What’s NAFTA?

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“the North American free trade agreement”

A trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico

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Explain the western cordillera’s climate.

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Maritime climate, lots of rain, lots of plate tectonics

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Describe the western cordillera’s vegetation.

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Fertile soil, evergreen trees, big forests

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I am made of folded mountains. I have diamonds, gold, oil and gas. I’m known for mining as well. Where am I?

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Arctic!

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My climate is maritime. I have vast forests and boreal forests. I’m known for my fishing industry, along with potatoes. I have rolling hills, valleys, and made from eroded plate collision. Where am I?

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Appalachians.

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I was made from plate collisions. I have maritime climate, evergreen trees, and salmon. I also have gold, copper, natural gas and agriculture. Where am I?

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Western Cordillera

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I have continental climate. I’m unsuitable for agriculture. I have beaver, caribou, copper, nickel, and water. I’m extremely old and made from ancient volcanic mountain ranges. Where am I?

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The Canadian Shield

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I have continental climate. With flat grasses and lots of barley and wheat. I was made from melting glacier which makes me suitable for agriculture due to my fertile soil. I am also made of sedimentary rock = layers. Where am I?

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Interior plains

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I have continental climate and a snow belt. I have farms, orchards, trout fish, agriculture, and forestry. I was made from the ice age from melting glaciers with flat, rolling hills. Where am I?

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Great Lakes + St. Lawrence Lowlands

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Name the physical regions of Canada (and mentally picture their positions on a map)

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Arctic, Cordillera, Interior Plains, Canadian Shield, St. Lawrence Lowlands, and the Appalachian

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What’s latitude?

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The distance of any point north or south of the equator, measured up to 90 degrees. (Closer to equator = hotter)

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What’s longitude?

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The distance of any point east or west of the prime meridian.

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What are the four economic sectors?
Primary - gathering of raw materials Secondary - materials made into goods Tertiary - service industry, businesses Quaternary - informational industries
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What's capital?
Money that is used by a company to increase production by investing in equipment, seeking new markets and other strategies
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What's the business cycle?
Alternating periods of up and down of economic activity | Slowdown, recession, recovery, prosperity, slowdown, depression, recovery
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What are three different resources?
Land resources - all natural resources, ex. Land, water, fish, minerals, forest Human resources - people to produce ex. Fishers Capital resources - $$$ and man made goods
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which level of economic activity involves the providing of services
tertiary
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name the industries in the arctic
pipelines, finishing, mining, hunting, gold industries
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how was the arctic formed
pressure from plate tectonics (folded mountains)
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how was the Appalachians formed
glaciers
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what are the industries in the Appalachians
coal miners, shipping, fishing and fry making
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what are the industries in the western cordillera
mining, forestry and agriculture
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how was the the western cordillera formed
tectonic plates and collision
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what are the industries in the Great Lakes / st Lawrence lowlands
agriculture shipping forestry and vineyards
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how was the Great Lakes / st Lawrence lowlands formed
ice sheets
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how was the interior planes formed
soil carried by rivers from Canadian Shield (used to be covered in water)
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what are the industries of the interior planes?
oil plantation and farming
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how was the Canadian Shield formed
once a volcanic mountain, range glaciers and erosion
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what industries in the Canadian Shield
mining, foresty, pulp and paper