Canadian Geography

1. What is Geography? • Definition • Questions that Geographers Ask • Human and Physical Geography • 5 Themes 2. Mapping Skills • Maps o 2 Types • Map Projections o Mercator o Peters o Winkel Tripel • S cale o 3 Types o Worksheet 3. Locating Places on a Map • Alphanumeric Grid • Worksheet 4. Compass Rose • Cardin al • Intermediate • Minor • Bearings • Worksheet 5. Latitude and Longitude • Main lines • Worksheet 6. Time Zones • 6 times zones of Canada • Why were time zones created? • Worksheet 7. Map of Canada • Provinces/ Territories • Capital Cities • Other Cities • Bodies of Water

1. Resources & Industries • Renewable Resource • Non-renewable Resource • Flow Resources • Other Resources • Perceptions of Resources ▪ Frontier ▪ Spaceship • Types of Industries ▪ Primary ▪ Secondary ▪ Tertiary/ Service 2. Fishing • East Coast Fisheries • West Coast Fisheries • Fresh Water Fisheries • Aquaculture • Collapse of the Fisheries • Canadian Fisheries – textbook questions 3. Types of Energy • Non-renewable ▪ Coal ▪ Natural Gas ▪ Oil ▪ Canada’s Oil Sands ▪ Problems with the Oil Sands • Renewable ▪ Wind ▪ Solar ▪ Suzuki Diaries - video ▪ Geothermal ▪ Biomass ▪ Tidal

1. Canada’s Population • Population • Top 3 CMA’s • Rates o Birth Rate o Death Rate o Natural Increase Rate o Immigration Rate o Emigration Rate o Net Migration Rate o Population Growth Rate o Doubling Time – Rule of 70 2. Demographics • Definition of Demography • Demographic Transition Model 3. Population Pyramids • Importance • Dependency Load • Working Age • Types – Expansive, Stationary/ Stable, Declining 4. Settlement Patterns • Population Distribution o Dispersed o Concentrated o Linear • Population Density 5. Census Analysis 6. Urban Land Use • Six Urban Land Use o Residential o Transportation o Institutional o Open Space and Recreational o Industrial o Commercial • Other Land Use – Agricultural • Zoning Laws • Urban Sprawl • Rural – Urban Fringe 7. Indigenous Population of Canada • Census 20 21 information 8. Immigration • Factors o Push o Pull o Intervening Obstacles • Historical Trends • Types of Immigrants o Economic – Permanent 1. Skilled Worker 2. Skilled Trades Class 3. Canadian Experience Class 4. Start Up Vis a o Economic – Temporary o Family o Refugee • Canadian Point System

1. Intro to Physical Geography 2. Layers of the Earth • Crust • Mantle • Outer Core • Inner Core 3. Geologic History • Precambrian • Paleozoic • Mesozoic • Cenozoic 4. Continental Drift / Plate Tectonics • Alfred Wegener - 4 Proofs • Problems with the Theory • Plate Tectonics • Marie Tharp • J. Tuzo Wilson • Plate Bou ndaries o Divergent o Convergent o Transform o Ring of Fire 5. Volcanoes • 3 Areas found • 3 Types • 3 Classifications • How they affect the world • Volcanoes in Canada 6. Earthquakes • Impacts • Richter Scale • Moment Magnitu de • Earthquakes in Canada • Worksheet 7. Tsunamis • Stages • Boxing Day T sunami - 2004

1. Landform Regions • Description of Regions (7) • Map 2. Climate Regions • Climate vs. Weather • Map • LOWERN • Climate Connections – textbook questions • Climate Graphs and Statistics 3. Precipitation • Relief • Convection al • Cyclon ic (Frontal) • P recipitation – textbook questions 4. Hurricanes 5. Tornadoes 6. Climate Change • The Greenhouse Effect • What Might Happen? • Before the Flood – documentary • In te rnation al Agreements a. Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement