Geography Multiple choice

What is spatial significance?

Why a place or feature is important (economic, social, environmental, political).

What are interrelationships?

How humans and the environment affect each other.

What are patterns and trends?

Repeated features or changes over time in geography.

What is a social perspective?

How people and society are affected (culture, quality of life, health).

What is an economic perspective?

How money, jobs, and trade affect an area.

What is an environmental perspective?

How humans impact nature and ecosystems.

What is a political perspective?

How government decisions, laws, and policies affect a place.

What is a linear settlement?

Buildings in a line along a road, river, or railway.

What is a dispersed settlement?

Buildings spread far apart, usually in rural areas.

What is a clustered (nucleated) settlement?

Buildings close together, common in towns or cities.

What are renewable resources?

Resources that can be replaced naturally (wind, water, solar, trees).

What are non-renewable resources?

Resources that cannot be replaced quickly (oil, coal, natural gas, minerals).

What is a primary industry?

Extracts raw materials (farming, mining, forestry, fishing).

What is a secondary industry?

Makes products from raw materials (factories, manufacturing).

What is a tertiary industry?

Provides services (stores, hospitals, schools).

What is a quaternary industry?

Knowledge-based (research, IT, technology).

Name 3 factors that influence where industries locate.

Access to raw materials, transportation, labour, market, energy, climate.

Name the 6 landform regions of Canada.

Canadian Shield, Interior Plains, Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands, Cordillera, Appalachians, Arctic Lowlands.

Name the 3 territories of Canada.

Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut.

Name the 10 provinces of Canada

British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador.

Name 3 major bodies of water in Canada.

Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Hudson Bay, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River.

What is urban sprawl?

Cities spreading outward into rural areas, causing more traffic, pollution, and loss of farmland.

What is sustainable development?

Using resources wisely to meet today’s needs without harming future generations.

What does population density mean?

Number of people per square kilometer.

What does a population pyramid show?

Age and gender of a population.

What does a wide base in a population pyramid mean?

High birth rate and rapid population growth.

What does a narrow base in a population pyramid mean?

Low birth rate and aging population.