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

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

Found primarily in Alberta; examples include Oil, natural gas, and coal

Capitol city is Toronto

British Columbia

Northwest Territories

Capitol city is Iqaluit

Prince Edward Island

Newfoundland and Labrador

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.

Should be underlined at the top of the map.

One cm represents 10 km.

describes symbols on a map

Bodies of Water on a map.

Only coloured blue.

never meet, always point upstream.

Physical connections

Examples include natural disasters, lakes and landforms

human connections

Examples include recreation activities and populations

The capitol city of Ontario

Always flow downhill

Home to Lake Okanogan and a winery

Home to a large China town

The largest waterfall in the world by volume

Tall, thin columns of rock

Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip

Wrote many songs about Canada and its people

The largest water body within Canada's borders

Part of the Great Lakes

A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.

Located about 100 km north of Toronto

A tool on a map showing cardinal (N,E,S,W) and intermediate (NE,SE,NW,SW) directions.

90 degrees north

0° longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England.

Tectonic Plates

Large movable plates under the Earth's surface.

The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core.

formed from cooled lava

Molten rock beneath the earth's surface

Stationary Glacier

Ice formation that does not advance because snowfall equals melting.

ice that moves moves from mountain tops down a valley

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

The land form region of Barrie

Wrote many fantastic songs about Canada

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

Rock forced back under the earth's crust

mountains created by the bending of rock layers

Canadian Shield

A rocky landform region with many lakes that starts 50km north of Barrie

Is part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire"

British Columbia

Home to Canada's only dormant volcanoes

the hardest material known

causes volcanoes when tectonic plates are forced under each other

All the water on earth

The 5 factors that affect climate

the distance from the equator measured in degrees

Make winters milder and summers cooler

Brings cold weather if from the north, warm from the south

Why mountain tops are snowy

Why Vancouver is so rainy

Precipitation that causes thunderstorms and tornadoes

Precipitation that forms when warm air mass meets a cold air mass

Overall weather in an area over a long period of time

Day to day conditions in the Earth's atmosphere.

form in Western hemisphere because of warm water in the Caribbean

Climate region of Barrie, Ontario

shows the average temperatures and precipitation in a place

rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.

The movement in and out of an area; includes
immigration and emigration

When a person moves out of a country (or place);
this decreases that place's population

When a person moves into another country (or
place) ; this increases that place's population

Invented by the Iroquois First Nation; now the national sport of Canada

When somebody dies, it decreases our population

Every child that is born increases our population

An example of French culture.

The Plains of Abraham

the setting of the Battle of Quebec, in which England conquered New France (Quebec)

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

Examples include high cost of living;
; negative personal safety and security issues and natural disasters

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.

never meet, always point upstream.

90 degrees north

0° longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England.

Responsible for the seasons

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

causes the seasons

one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe

The Canadian Time Zone in which the sun rises first

The time zone Barrie is located in.

lines that connect points of equal elevation

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Satellite-based system for determining location

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