GeographyExam Flashcards
Name 8 livability factors
- Climate
- Access to resources
- Unemployment
- Public transportation
- Safety
- Education
- Infrastructure
- Sustainable
- Diverse
- Houseing
Four Spatial Significance Steps
- Where
- What’s occurring naturally
- Human activity
- Why its important
What is a Trend
Change over time
What is a pattern
Data can form patterns often on a map
What are the geographical perspectives
- Social
- Economic
- Enviermental
- Political
What are the different interrelationships
- Human - Human
- Nature - Nature
- Human - Nature
- Nature - Human
What are the four Geotechnologies
- GPS
- GIS
- Telematics
- Remote Sensing
What is absolute location
Latitude and Longitude
What is Attribute data
Information about what something is
What is Spatial data
Information about where something is
Primary data
Data you collected your self
Secondary data
data collected by someone else
Convergent plates boundary
Plates pushing together
Divergent plate boundary
Plates puling apart
What is the plate boundary on the west coast
The Pacific plate and the North American plate.
What is weathering
Weathering causes materials to break apart, creating sediment which moves and deposits in a different location
How are sedimentary rocks formed
from sediment cormpressing often under the ocean.
How are metimorphic rocks
metimorphic rocks are formed deep within the earth crust with a compination of heart a pressure
How are igneous rocks formed
Igneous rocks are formed by magma cooling, these rocks can be intrusive, or extrusive referring to the location that they were formed at.
What are the landform regions across Canada and their age
- 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.
methan is made form orgainic materials and rising tempitures are causeing preveosly stored
methan is made form orgainic materials and rising tempitures are causeing preveosly stored
