Human Geography

Question 0

What is emigration?

Answer 0

To leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:

Question 1

What is immigration?

Answer 1

The movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there.

Question 3

What is a Refugee?

Answer 3

A person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.

Question 4

What is the Golden Horseshoe?

Answer 4

The megalopolis that surrounds Lake Ontario.

Question 5

What is Population Density?

Answer 5

The number of people living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile);.

Question 6

What is Urban Sprawl?

Answer 6

The uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.

Question 7

Who are Baby Boomers?

Answer 7

A person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.

Question 8

What is Dependency Load?

Answer 8

The dependency load is the age-population ratio that is usually not a part of the work force.

Question 9

What is self government?

Answer 9

Control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members;.

Question 10

What does Aboriginal mean?

Answer 10

Original or earliest known; native; indigenous.

Question 11

What does First Nations mean?

Answer 11

The original people of Canada.

Question 12

What does Métis mean?

Answer 12

The offspring of an Aboriginal and a White person.

Question 13

What does Inuit mean?

Answer 13

A member of the Eskimo peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.

Question 14

What are Low, Middle and High order goods and services?

Answer 14

Goods that are placed in order from low to high, based on how difficult they are to get a hold of.

Question 15

What are, Hamlets, Villages, Towns, Cities, CMA’s, and Megalopolis’s

Answer 15

A hamlet is 8 to 10 buildings, A Village is 200 to 1000 buildings, a town is 1000 to 10, 000 buildings, a City is 10,000+ buildings, A CMA is a 100,000 + buildings, and a Megalopolis is when large cities grow together.

Question 16

What is the “Section Survey System”?

Answer 16

The section survey system is a method used in the United States and Canada to locate and identify land, particularly for lots in densely populated metropolitan areas, suburban areas and exurbs. It is sometimes referred to as the recorded plat survey system or the recorded map survey system.

Question 17

What are the Long Lots Of Southern Quebec?

Answer 17

An area settled before roads railways and a survey system was in place. Transportation was mainly boat along the St.Lawrence river

Question 18

What is the Concession System of Southern Ontario?

Answer 18

An area settled after a survey system was in place, Roads and Railways were already built so access to lakes and rivers was less important. Roads were 2km apart and farms were 40-80 hectares in size. Surveyors divided the land into blocks. A group of concession blocks is called a Township. A group of Townships is called a County.

Question 19

What is Urban Land Use?

Answer 19

The categories that a city uses and assigns to the specific area of the city, eg: Residential 40%, Commercial 5%, Industrial 6%, Institutional 10%, 7% Recreational, 32% of the land is transportation.

Question 20

What is the Greenbelt?

Answer 20

The Greenbelt is an area of open land around a city, on which building is restricted.

Question 21

What is the rural-urban fringe?

Answer 21

The rural–urban fringe, also known as the outskirts or the urban hinterland, can be described as the “landscape interface between town and country”, or also as the transition zone where urban and rural uses mix and often clash.