terms

Question 1

Towns or cities with a population of 1000 people or more and a population density of at least 400 people per square kilometre.

Answer 1

urban

Question 2

Areas, often agricultural, located outside of towns or cities that have a low population density.

Answer 2

rural

Question 3

A description of where people have chosen to live in a particular area.

Answer 3

population distribution

Question 4

A term used to describe Canada’s pockets of settlement as a group of islands.

Answer 4

archipelago effect

Question 5

A measure of how closely together people live in a given country or area.

Answer 5

population density

Question 6

features of the physical landscape that attract people to the area.

Answer 6

site factor

Question 7

the site’s relationship to other places in the area.

Answer 7

situation factor

Question 8

Pattern that has long narrow lots of land that face the river.

Answer 8

seigneurial system

Question 9

Uses square 100 acre lots (The size of lots gradually increased due to the use of machines)

Answer 9

township system

Question 10

when people move, either temporarily or permanently, from a rural area to an urban city.

Answer 10

rural to urban shift

Question 11

Populations grow or shrink depending on if they gain people faster than they lose them

Answer 11

population growth and decline

Question 12

Location: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, NL

Physical and Cultural Features: -Economic hardship
-Dominated by ocean activities -Pockets of farming.

Politics:
-Connected to New England —Debate on uniting Maritime provinces (NS, NB, PEI).

Hierarchy:
Many smaller regional areas
(Cape Breton, Labrador, Avalon)

Answer 12

atlantic Canada

Question 13

Location: Ontario and Quebec

Physical/Cultural Attributes:
-Dominated by activity on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence
-Extensive farming
-Heavy manufacturing
-French and English culture

Politics:
Heavy ties to United States

Hierarchy:
Split into northern and southern regions

Answer 13

Central Canada

Question 14

Location: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, & Alberta

Physical/Cultural Attributes:
-Flat dry grasslands
-European settlement between 100-200 years ago
-Heavy farming and oil activity

Politics:
Strong ties to USA due to oil and farming

Hierarchy:
Oil patch communities

Answer 14

prairies

Question 15

Location:
British Columbia

Physical/Cultural Attributes:
-Mountains and forests
-Dry interior
-Significant immigration from Pacific countries

Politics:
-Connected to US west coast.
-Economic ties to Asia

Hierarchy:
Local regions in the interior and on Vancouver Island

Answer 15

west coast

Question 16

Location: Nunavut, Northwest Territories, & Yukon

Physical/Cultural Attributes:
-Predominantly First Nations and Innu
-Forest in the West, Tundra in the East
-Resource based economy

Politics:
Territories of the Federal government

Hierarchy:
-Mackenzie River Valley
-Eastern Arctic (Iqaluit)
-Yukon

Answer 16

the north

Question 17

the nucleus of a geographic region, containing its most developed area, greatest wealth, and highest population density.

Answer 17

core

Question 18

all the areas outside the core. It is sometimes referred to as the “hinterland”. It supplies raw material to the core and provides a market for its manufactured products and services.

Answer 18

periphery

Question 19

Over time, this corridor became the centre of Canada’s financial services and the hub of transportation systems.

Answer 19

windsor quebec city corridor

Question 20

To illustrate regional identity spatially the term ‘county’ should most likely fit

Answer 20

regional identity

Question 21

a generalization that all people of a certain region, culture, or area are the same, often in a negative way.

Answer 21

stereotypes