GEOGRAPHY GRADE 9

To assist with your daily review of class concepts and material, I have included a list of topics to cover for the final formal exam. I will be doing an extensive in-class review closer to the exam date.

*Please Note: There may be additional topics added to this list. If anything else is added, I will let you know.

Introduction

-What is Geography?- Difference between Human and Physical Geography

-Mapping skills

- Provinces and territories

- Capital cities

- Major bodies of water (oceans and major lakes)

-Landform Regions

-Location on map

-Characteristics of regions

Geographic Inquiry Model (What is Where? Why There? Why Care?)

Canadian Demographics

- Characteristics of Canada’s population

- Dependency Load

- Demographic Transition Model

- Population Pyramid- what is it used for?

- How to read a population pyramid

Immigration/Emigration

- Immigrant and Emigrant

- Economic Immigrants

- Family Sponsored Immigrants

- Refugees

- Push and Pull factors - categories

- Where immigrants settle in Canada

-How a person can be deemed inadmissible

Population Density vs. Distribution

Rural and Urban Settlement Patterns

- Historical settlement patterns

-Characteristics or rural and urban settlement

-Multiplier Effect

-Urban Land Use

-six types of urban land use

-characteristics of each one

-Conservation

-Sustainability

Geology

-Plate Tectonics (three types of plate boundaries)

-What type of landform can be created at each plate boundary

-Glaciation and Erosion

-Types of natural disasters in Canada

-location(s)

Natural Resources

-Renewable vs. Non-Renewable vs. Flow

-Types of natural resources

-Industries in Canada (4 types)

Sustainability

-What is sustainability?

-Rate of Renewal and Rate of Consumption

-Terminology from Sustainable Worksheets

-Sustainable Development Goals

Indigenous

-Land Acknowledgement

-Residential Schools

-Impacts of resource usage on Indigenous communities

Climate Change

-Global Warming vs. Climate Change

-Weather vs. Climate

-What is the Greenhouse Effect?

-Impacts of Climate Change

-Evidence of Climate Change

Articles to Review

-Ontario Greenbelt Scandal

-Japan's Demographic Crisis

-Lobster Fishing Controversy

-Cod Fishing Moratorium

-40 Million and Counting

-Fire Ravages Picturesque Jasper