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9 L 2019 Geography Exam Review
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Primary Industry
Produces the raw materials that are eventually processed
Secondary Industry
takes raw materials and changes them into things that we can use
Tertiary Industry
A downhill ski instructor works in a __________________ ; industry - tourism and recreation
Quaternary Industry
High-technology sector of the economy
Atlantic Region
Largest Canadian Fishery
Alberta
The #1 source of Canadian beef, gas and oil products
British Columbia
The #1 source of Canadian forestry products.
Metallic Minerals
Gold, nickel, and iron ore
Fuel Minerals
Found primarily in Alberta; examples include Oil, natural gas, and coal
Ontario
Capitol city is Toronto
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Regina
Alberta
Edmonton
British Columbia
Victoria
Yukon
Whitehorse
Northwest Territories
Yellowknife
Nunavut
Capitol city is Iqaluit
Quebec
Quebec City
New Brunswick
Fredricton
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown
Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's
Canada
Capitol city is Ottawa
Aplha-numeric grid
Used in road maps and the game Batleship
Lines of latitude.
Measures how far away from the equator.
Lines of longitude
Measures how far away from the Prime Meridian.
A title
Should be underlined at the top of the map.
verbal scale
One cm represents 10 km.
ratio scale
1: 200 000
legend
describes symbols on a map
Bodies of Water on a map.
Only coloured blue.
contour lines
never meet, always point upstream.
Physical connections
Examples include natural disasters, lakes and landforms
human connections
Examples include recreation activities and populations
Toronto
The capitol city of Ontario
Rivers
Always flow downhill
Kelwona
Home to Lake Okanogan and a winery
Vancouver
Home to a large China town
Niagara Falls
The largest waterfall in the world by volume
Hoodoos
Tall, thin columns of rock
Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
Wrote many songs about Canada and its people
Hudson Bay
The largest water body within Canada's borders
Lake Ontario
Part of the Great Lakes
Estuary
A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
Barrie
Located about 100 km north of Toronto
compass rose
A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) and intermediate (NE,SE,NW,SW) directions.
north pole
90 degrees north
Prime Meridian
0° longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England.
Tectonic Plates
Large movable plates under the Earth's surface.
mantle
The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core.
igneous
formed from cooled lava
Magma
Molten rock beneath the earth's surface
Stationary Glacier
Ice formation that does not advance because snowfall equals melting.
Alpine Glacier
ice that moves moves from mountain tops down a valley
Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands
The land form region of Barrie
Gord Downie
Wrote many fantastic songs about Canada
Alfred Wegner
Created theory about tectonic plates and continental drift
British Columbia
Area of Canada in a earthquake/volcano zone
Sedimentary Rock
formed by compression of smaller weathered pieces
metamorphic rock
transformed by intense heat and pressure
subduction
Rock forced back under the earth's crust
folding
mountains created by the bending of rock layers
Canadian Shield
A rocky landform region with many lakes that starts 50km north of Barrie
Vancouver
Is part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire"
British Columbia
Home to Canada's only dormant volcanoes
diamonds
the hardest material known
subduction
causes volcanoes when tectonic plates are forced under each other
hydrosphere
All the water on earth
LOWER
The 5 factors that affect climate
Lattitude
the distance from the equator measured in degrees
Oceans
Make winters milder and summers cooler
Wind
Brings cold weather if from the north, warm from the south
Elevation
Why mountain tops are snowy
Relief
Why Vancouver is so rainy
convection
Precipitation that causes thunderstorms and tornadoes
frontal
Precipitation that forms when warm air mass meets a cold air mass
climate
Overall weather in an area over a long period of time
weather
Day to day conditions in the Earth's atmosphere.
hurricanes
form in Western hemisphere because of warm water in the Caribbean
Lower Lakes
Climate region of Barrie, Ontario
Climate graph
shows the average temperatures and precipitation in a place
Precipitation
rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
Migration
The movement in and out of an area; includes
immigration and emigration
Emigration
When a person moves out of a country (or place);
this decreases that place's population
Immigration
When a person moves into another country (or
place) ; this increases that place's population
lacrosse
Invented by the Iroquois First Nation; now the national sport of Canada
Death Rate
When somebody dies, it decreases our population
Birth Rate
Every child that is born increases our population
crepes
An example of French culture.
The Plains of Abraham
the setting of the Battle of Quebec, in which England conquered New France (Quebec)
Baby Boom
Large population group born between 1942 and 1950.
Seasonal Migration
Example includes workers from the Caribbean working on Canadian farms during the summer
Forced Migration
Example includes slavery in Caribbean and coasts of America
Immigration Points System
Encourages immigration fairness by ensuring the necessary skills for earning a living once he/she is established
push factor
Examples include high cost of living;
; negative personal safety and security issues and natural disasters
pull factors
Examples include superior career prospects and increased income; better working conditions and reuniting with family members.
Aplha-numeric grid
Used in road maps and the game Batleship
Lines of latitude.
Measures how far away from the equator.
Lines of longitude
Measures how far away from the Prime Meridian.
contour lines
never meet, always point upstream.
north pole
90 degrees north
Prime Meridian
0° longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England.
Earth's Tilt
Responsible for the seasons
Equinox
Each of the two times of the year when days and nights are of equal length
Summer Solstice
Day with the most hours of sunlight and the fewest hours of darkness
earth's axis
causes the seasons
Time Zones
one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe
Newfoundland
The Canadian Time Zone in which the sun rises first
Eastern
The time zone Barrie is located in.
contour lines
lines that connect points of equal elevation
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Satellite-based system for determining location
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