Exam Review

Question 1

Effects on global warming

Answer 1

1) weather refugees
2) Areas being too dry
3) Disappearance of glaciers
4) glaciers and polar ice caps melt
5) Extreme weather

Question 2

Acid rain

Answer 2

Industrial and vehicle emissions, intensified by prevailing westerly winds

Question 3

Till plains

Answer 3

Gently rolling landscape

Question 4

Lake plains

Answer 4

Fertile flat plains

Question 5

Inshore

Answer 5

• Smaller vessels
• More frequent returns home self-imployment

Question 6

Offshore

Answer 6

• Large coverage
• major corporations fishing through the year

Question 7

What is Lake Agassiz

Answer 7

A huge glacial lake

Question 8

What effect did Lake Agassiz have on farm Ning in left behind Manitoba and Saskatchewan

Answer 8

Left behind sediments that form rich soils used for farming

Question 9

World city

Answer 9

Hubs of economic activity

Question 10

Megacity

Answer 10

Any city with a mini of 10 mil inhabitants

Question 11

Urban growth

Answer 11

Number of people added to a city’s population

Question 12

Squatter settlement

Answer 12

Areas of illegally built poor quality housing that lack proper sanitation facilities

Ex. Schools, hospitals

Question 13

Heat island effect

Answer 13

large expanses of buildings and pavement increase the temps while decreasing humidity

Question 14

Informal economy

Answer 14

Part of the population (employed and self-employed) who do not comply with standard business practices

Question 15

Infastructure

Answer 15

Facilities and institutions (roads, bridges, schools) that make socitety function

Question 16

Financial squeeze

Answer 16

Economic constraints that results when money is raised through taxes

Question 17

Comprehensive

Answer 17

First treaties to be signed where treaties are never signed

Question 18

How were the interior plateaus of the western cordillera formed?

What types of economic actives take place there?

Answer 18

Formed for Volcanic activity, and are used for farming

Question 19

How were the Appalachian mountains formed

Answer 19

-300 millions years ago, North America collided with Europe and Africa to form Pangaea

-Formed when sedimentary rock folded

Question 20

GMO

Answer 20

• Genetically mortified organism
• Plants and animals that are preserved for nutrition value

Question 21

Selective breeding

Answer 21

An animal or plant chooses its parent for better characteristics

Question 22

Selective breeding

Answer 22

An animal or plant chooses its parent for better characteristics

Question 23

Clean energy

Answer 23

energy that comes from renewable, zero emission sources