GeographyExam Flashcards

1
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Name 8 livability factors

A
  • Climate
  • Access to resources
  • Unemployment
  • Public transportation
  • Safety
  • Education
  • Infrastructure
  • Sustainable
  • Diverse
  • Houseing
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2
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Four Spatial Significance Steps

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  • Where
  • What’s occurring naturally
  • Human activity
  • Why its important
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3
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What is a Trend

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Change over time

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4
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What is a pattern

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Data can form patterns often on a map

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5
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What are the geographical perspectives

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  • Social
  • Economic
  • Enviermental
  • Political
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6
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What are the different interrelationships

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  • Human - Human
  • Nature - Nature
  • Human - Nature
  • Nature - Human
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7
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What are the four Geotechnologies

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  • GPS
  • GIS
  • Telematics
  • Remote Sensing
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8
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What is absolute location

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Latitude and Longitude

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9
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What is Attribute data

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Information about what something is

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10
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What is Spatial data

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Information about where something is

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11
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Primary data

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Data you collected your self

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12
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Secondary data

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data collected by someone else

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13
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Convergent plates boundary

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Plates pushing together

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14
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Divergent plate boundary

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Plates puling apart

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15
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What is the plate boundary on the west coast

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The Pacific plate and the North American plate.

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16
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What is weathering

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Weathering causes materials to break apart, creating sediment which moves and deposits in a different location

17
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How are sedimentary rocks formed

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from sediment cormpressing often under the ocean.

18
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How are metimorphic rocks

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metimorphic rocks are formed deep within the earth crust with a compination of heart a pressure

19
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How are igneous rocks formed

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Igneous rocks are formed by magma cooling, these rocks can be intrusive, or extrusive referring to the location that they were formed at.

20
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What are the landform regions across Canada and their age

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  • Canadian shield (540)
  • Appalachian Mountings (480 - 245)
  • Interoir Plains (115-80)
  • western Cordillera (85 - 50)
  • GLSLL (1 - 0.1)
  • Arctic, contains a mix of several different landscape regions.
21
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methan is made form orgainic materials and rising tempitures are causeing preveosly stored

22
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methan is made form orgainic materials and rising tempitures are causeing preveosly stored