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Lecture 2: Canada's Physical Base Flashcards

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What is a sense of place?

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Psychological bond that people have between people and the area that they are from

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What is a benefit of sense of place?

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Leads to regional conciousness (willinginess to advocate for your region and its interests)

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What are the 6 regions of Canada?

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  1. Territorial North
  2. BC
  3. Western Canada
  4. Ontario
  5. Quebec
  6. Atlantic Canada
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What is the Core/Periphery Theory?

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The theory that the core (industrial heartland) dominates the periphery (resource hinterland) in the economic realtionship - but they both rely on eachother

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Where is the Core in Canada?

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Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec

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What are BC and the Prairie provinces considered to be in Core/Periphery Theory?

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Upward transitional peripheries

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What are the Atlantic Provinces considered to be in Core/Periphery Theory?

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Downward transitional peripheries

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What are 6 charecteristics of cores?

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  1. They recieve raw materials from periphery
  2. Manufacturing is a common industry
  3. Geographically small
  4. Urban and densely populated
  5. Diverse economy
  6. Home to corporate headquarters
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What are 4 charecteristics of peripheries?

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  1. Purchase manufactured goods from core
  2. Geographically large
  3. Resourced-based economy
  4. Rural and sparesely populated
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What are 3 noticeable trends as one travels from core to periphery?

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  1. Population and population density decrease
  2. Median income decreases
  3. Unemployment rate increases
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What are the two contrasing ways that cores and peripheries interact?

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  1. Regional Exploitation Model (not Canada)
    - wealthy core exploits natural resources of periphery leaving it impoverished
  2. Modern Model (Canada)
    - core invests in periphery and helps it grow economically
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What is a subcore?

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Has similar charecteristics to a core but on a smaller scale

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What are 3 sub-cores in Canada’s periphery?

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  1. Vancouver/Victoria
  2. Calgary/Edmonton
  3. Halifax
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What is the Staples Thesis?

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A proposed explanation of how and why Canada’s economy has grown and changed since Confederation

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What is a staple product?

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A nartural resource that can be exploited realtively quickly and cheaply for a product

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Where was the first periphery in Canada?

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Atlantic Provinces (a periphery for england)

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What is the order of the advancement of Canada’s Staple products?

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  1. Fur
  2. Lumber (from east to west)
  3. Fish (east)
  4. Mining (from east to west)
  5. Oil (west)
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What are economic linkages good for?

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Economic growth and job creation

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What is backward linkage?

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Supplies for the staple industries (ex: saws and tools for lumber industry)

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What is forward linkage?

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Local processing before export (ex: squarring lumber before shipment)

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What is final demand linkage?

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Servicing the needs of workers and their families (stores, schools, hospitals)

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What did the National Policy of 1879 do?

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Created nationwide market for Canadian-made goods

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How did the National Policy of 1879 create a nationwide market for Canadian goods?

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By implementing tarrifs on foreign made goods

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Who did the National Policy of 1879 favour?

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Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec since transportation costs were minimized

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Where did the National Policy of 1879 have a negative effect?

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Western Canada - were purchasing expensive Canadian-made goods from the core but were exporting wheat and grain to the USA

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What is the global core?

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North America and Western Europe

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Where is the global sub-core?

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Asia - China, SK, Japan

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How does Canada take advantage of the growing global sub-core?

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Diversification of trade

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What are the 5 sub categories of Canada’s physical geography?

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  1. Geologic elements
  2. Physiography
  3. Climate
  4. Vegetation
  5. Soil
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What are the 3 major geologic elements in Canada?

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  1. Canadian Shield (igneous)
  2. Platform (sedimentary rock)
  3. Folded Mountains (metamorphic rock)
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How old is the Canadian Shield?

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Over 1 billion years (oldest rock in NA)

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Where is the Canadian Shield located?

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From NWT, through northern prairies, northern ontario, northern quebec, and labrador

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Where is Platform rock?

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Interior Plains of the continent (NWT to Texas)

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What are the 3 areas containing folded mountains in Canada?

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Appalachian, Innuitian, Cordillera

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What are key charecteristics about the Innuitian Mountains?

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Jagged but somewhat eroded, mostly inaccessible

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What are key charecteristics about the Cordillera Mountains?

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The highest and most jagged (bc they are so young) also permanently snow-capped tops

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What are the two major mountain ranges in Codillera?

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Rocky Mountains, and Coast Mountains

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What is a physiograhic region?

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A region that contains similar topographic features

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What are the 7 physiographic regions of Canada?

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  1. Canadian Shield
  2. Codillera
  3. Interior Plains
  4. Huson Bay Lowlands
  5. Arctic Aechipelago
  6. Appalachian Uplands
  7. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
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Describe the Canadian Shield (4)

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  • extends over half of Canada’s land mass
  • rocky surface consists of mainly rugged land
  • during the last time of ice advance, the surface was subjected to glacial erosion and desposition
  • contains a wealth of valuable metallic mineral resources
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Which physicographic region has the highest variation of relief, and has a complex region of plateaus and valleys?

42
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Which physiographic region was once covered by a large inland sea?

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Interior Plains

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Which physiographic region has many bogs and muskeg (porrly drained soil)

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

43
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Which physiographic region is known for having deep, and wipe river valleys?

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Interior Plains

44
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Which physigraphic region has the least variation in relief?

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Hudson Bay Lowlands

45
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Describe the water drainage situation in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

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The permafrost underneath prevents water drainage

46
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What does Archipelago mean?

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Large grouping of islands

47
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Which physiographic region is covered by snow in the north and tundra in the south?

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Arctic Archipelago

48
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Describe the tree growth situation in the Arctic Archipelago

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Continous permafrsot underneath prevents tree growth

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What are two key charecteristics of Appalachian Uplands

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  1. Rounded uplands and narrow river valleys
  2. Indented coast line creates many small bays and harbours
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What is the smallest physiographic region?

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Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands

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Describe the landscape of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands

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flat, with rolling hills, sedimentary rock underneath

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Describe the soil of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands

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very fertile, well suited for agriculture

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What is a Continental Glacier?

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Thick sheets of ice that cover entire continents

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What are Alpine Glaciers?

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Glaciers found in mountainous regions, glaciers that develop when slopes accumulate with snow that compacts into ice over long periods of time

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How was the Hudson Bay formed?

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Thich heavy ice that pushed down the rock and create this hole that is now called Hudson Bay

56
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Where was the former lake Agassiz and how was it formed?

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Manitoba - formed by melting ice

57
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What are the two components of Climate?

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Temperature and Precipitation

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What are the 7 climatic controls?

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  1. Lattitude (at lower latitudes (closer to equator), more solar radiation hits the surface
  2. Altitude - higher elevations have cooler temperatures
  3. Proximity to water - water keeps nearby land warmer in automn and cooler in spring
  4. Ocean currents - currents transport warm or cold water depending on source of current
  5. Variations in topography - cold air is dense and tends to sink into valleys
  6. Prevailing Wind - Some wind systems cause rapid temperature changes
  7. Locations of Pressure systems: relates to poosition of warm and cold fronts
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What are the 7 climatic zones?

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  1. Pacific
  2. Cordillera
  3. Prairies
  4. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence
  5. Atlantic
  6. Subarctic
  7. Arctic
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What are the 2 main climatic controls in Canada?

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Latitude and Proximity to Bodies of Water

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Where is body of water induced temperature moderation most evident?

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Along ocean coasts, and a bit less near great lakes

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What is the growing season defined as?

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number of days beween final frost in spring and first frost in fall

63
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Where is the longest growing season

64
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What is convective percipitation?

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Thunderstorms caused by air rising off the hot ground (Praries and Great Lakes)

65
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what are the traditional economic anchors of each region:

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Ontario: automobile manufacturing
Quebc: hydroelectric power
BC: forest industry
Western Canada: Agriculture
Atlantic Canada: fisheries
Territorial North: megaprojects

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What is continentalism?

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oposite of nationalism - supports free trade

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