General Info

Question 1

What are the 3 geo questions?

Answer 1

• what is where?
• why there?
• why care?

Question 2

What is spatial significance?

Answer 2

how the location of something is connected to other things

Question 3

how do you calculate pop density?

Answer 3

ppl/ # sq km

Question 4

why is canada’s pop so low? 1

Answer 4

young country (short history)

Question 5

What is leaching?

Answer 5

When water washes nutrients down into lower layers where plants can’t use them

Question 6

What is a divergent plate boundary?

Answer 6

plates moving away from eachother

Question 7

what is a convergent plate boundary?

Answer 7

plates moving towards eachother

Question 8

what is a transform plate boundary

Answer 8

plates slide past eachother

Question 9

what are the 3 largest cities in Canada in pop

Answer 9

Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal

Question 10

What are the characteristics of the Canadian shield? 4

Answer 10

• many minerals
• igneous rock
• largest Canadian feature
• soil was scraped away from glaciers

Question 11

what landform region do most Canadians live in?

Answer 11

Great lakes to St Lawrence lowlands

Question 12

How do ocean currents affect climate? 3

Answer 12

• water moving away from the equator is warmer
• winds pick up temp from currents and affect land weather/ temp.
• warm currents and cold air = fog/ cold currents and warm air = fog

Question 13

How do ocean currents affect climate? 3

Answer 13

• water moving away from the equator is warmer
• winds pick up temp from currents and affect land weather/ temp.
• warm currents and cold air = fog/ cold currents and warm air = fog

Question 14

why are places at higher latitudes colder than places near the equator?

Answer 14

the sun’s rays are stronger by the equator

Question 15

what are examples of deciduous trees-

Answer 15

• maple
• hickory
• oak
• birch

Question 16

examples of renewable resources - 3

Answer 16

• fish
• forests
• animals

Question 17

what are the 3 Rs?

Answer 17

reduce, reuse, recycle

Question 18

the three kinds of commercial fisheries

Answer 18

groundfish, pelagic fish, shellfish

Question 19

why do fish flourish on the grand banks?

Answer 19

• water shallow

- warm and cold currents mix to make perfect temp for breeding grounds of fish.– good nutrients

Question 20

Is a forest as healthy once it has been clearcut?

Answer 20

No.

-destroys environments and habitats of animals

Question 21

what is TFR?

Answer 21

Total Fertility Rate.

- the average # of children born to a woman in her lifetime

Question 22

what percent of the world’s water is fresh

Answer 22

3%

Question 23

4 economic sectors

Answer 23

• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• quaternary

Question 24

examples of jobs in basic industry

Answer 24

• coal miner
• iron and steel worker
• wood and papermill

Question 25

jobs in non basic industry

Answer 25

• hair
• photography
• florist
• baker

Question 26

which economic sector has decreased

Answer 26

secondary

Question 27

which economic sector has increased

Answer 27

tertiary

Question 28

examples of fossil fuels

Answer 28

• coal
• oil
• natural gas

Question 29

how do you calculate natural increase

Answer 29

birth rate - death rate (ans /1000)

Question 30

how do you calculate pop growth rate?

Answer 30

natural increase rate + net migration rate (ans /1000)

Question 31

how do you calculate doubling time?

Answer 31

70/ pop growth rate (ans /1000)

Question 32

3 indigenous groups in canada

Answer 32

• inuit
• metis
• first nations

Question 33

2 humanitarian reasons immigrants are allowed in Canada

Answer 33

• refugee

- family