possible short answer questions Flashcards
what causes people to go to a new place using site factors?
-Soil -Minerals
-Fish -Trees
what causes people to go to a new place using situation factors?
-Economic relations
-transportation
-Trade relations
-Location of Markets
-Political relationships
describe atlantic canada’s settlement pattern
People farmed where they could (PEI, Annapolis Valley, Cape Breton)
Mostly people settled near the ocean so they could fish
describe New france settlement pattern
Settlers wanted to be close to the river. It was the major system of transport, and source of water.
Settlement formed in the seigneurial system
describe Ontarios settlement pattern
The British settled Ontario so they adopted the Township system.
describe the prairies settlement pattern
Land was divided into a grid pattern.
Like Ontario but the grid was much larger.
describe the north’s settlement pattern
Settlements formed around resource discoveries (Gold)
describe British columbia’s settlement pattern
Settlement formed in fertile mountain valleys or near resources (Trees, mining, rivers)
The Fraser River delta saw farming develop.
explain the concept of core and periphery
The core is the nucleus of a geographic region, containing its most developed area, greatest wealth, and highest population density.The periphery is all the areas outside the core,It supplies raw material to the core and provides a market for its manufactured products and services.
what r seterotypes and why might they be dangerous
Stereotyping is using a generalization that all people of a certain region, culture, or area are the same, often in a negative way. Negitive stereotypes can lead to a person or group of people acting out and creating an violent area.
what four categories do we use to divide regions?
location
- physical and cultural characteristics
- political perspective
-hierarchy
some geographers refer to Canada’s population as a:
archipelago effect
what is not a political region in Canada
ontario
what is the way we do not divide regions
size
what two main categories determine the location of human settlement.
site and situation factors
