Unit 1 Review
By: Students of Social Studies 7
Places are Unique
By: Miranda and Eden
pages 6-11
What is a Place?
- A place is a bonded area; a locality such as a
town or a city
- Landmark an object or landform that identifies
a place
- Geography the study of the earth’s surface
and people’s relationships to it
landmarks
Where in the World?
- Relative Location description of a place in
relation to other places, using landmarks,
distance, or compass directions
- Absolute location is the location of a place
independent of any other place
- The earth is divided into four hemispheres
latitude lines
longitudes
lines
- Alphanumeric Grid lines that divide a map into
squares, with numbers along the top and
bottom and letters along the sides
- What is Alphanumeric location
- What kind of lines divide the globe into
north and south
- What's an example of a landmark
- What is Absolute location
A World in Motion
By Jessie and Lauren
Movement
Systems and Flow
Public Transit
Three Freight (fr-ai-ght) Competitors
Moving Products
Questions
What is the difference of system and flow
Name 1 of the 3 freight competitors
What is public transit and give 1 example
What are the two ways geographers look at movement
What is public transit and give 1 example
What are the two ways geographers look at movement
Geography 7
Pg: 24-31
By Anna and Ryan
Landforms
• Volcanoes, earthquakes and other
mountain building forces have
raise land above the ocean
• Living plants, animals, and
people-survive in very diverse
landform regions
Climate
• Long-term weather conditions at a particular place
• Living things have developed natural weather
conditions
• Antarctic penguins
Water
• About ¾ of the earth is covered in water
• Humpback whales are the 2nd largest mammal on earth
• Atmosphere: the layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Soils
• Much of the land area of the
earth is covered by a thin
layer of soil material
• Kalahari Desert
Natural Vegetation
• Natural vegetation are plants that have not
been introduced by humans
• Carnivores are animals that rely on meat
for food
• Herbivores are animals that rely on plants
for food
What Happened to the fish
• Inshore fishers
• Offshore fishers
• The cod in Newfoundland and Labrador ran short in
population and caused a province wide panic
Oil Under the Atlantic
• An average of 900 people are
working on each oil rig
• There is lots of oil 300km off of
St. Johns, Newfoundland
Nickel from Labrador
• Ore is rock that contains enough
content to make mining worthwhile
• 5 billion dollars
• Open-pit mining
What are 3 of the 5 environmental
factors?
1. Landforms
2. Water
3. Soil
4. Climate
5. Natural Vegetation
What is Natural Vegetation?
•
Plants that have not been introduced by humans
What are offshore fisher??
•
offshore fishers are fishers that fish in deeper waters
and use bigger boats
What is an Ore??
•
Rock that contains enough content to make mining
worthwile
Interaction Into Geography
by: Hanna and Michael
pages (34-41)
Interaction
- Relationships between people and the land
- Challenges
Interaction as Opportunity
- Choice
- Geographer’s believed the earth depends on people's choices
Cultural Landscapes
-Russia and China
Interaction as Challenge
- Balancing different opinions
- Mostly about the environment
- People destroying the environment
Urban Landscapes
- Most canadians live in urban cities
- The materials for buildings are different
The whiskey Jack Forest Dispute
- Deforestation
Why Companies Clear-Cut
- Clear cutting
- Safety
- Makes easy to replant trees and other species
Why conservationists Oppose Clear-Cuts
- Balance of the environment
- Does not kill the environment as much as other ways
Why do companies clear cut?
Answer:Because it is much quicker
cheaper and safer
Why do other people oppose clear cuts
Answer:Because they think it
is harmful to the environment
What do geographers believe about opportunity?
answer: Geographers believed that interaction is like opportunity
are choices rely on the earth
What is a cultural landscape?
answer: The mark that humans leave on earth's surface
Geography
Pages. 44-51
By: Owen & Cameron
Regions
Region- a part of the Earth’s surface that has similar characteristics throughout its
extent
Regions are used to simplify ideas about different parts of the Earth
Back to the Middle East
Physical and human characteristics (ex-Rockies)
The Middle East
Physical Regions
Geographers study the earth’s surface
Example- The plains.
Precise Boundaries: Watershed Regions
Conservation authority-an organization that manages the land around a river
system.
Watershed- An area drained by the waters of a river system.
A watershed is a physical region
Transition Zones: Natural vegetation Regions
Tundra- A region of low shrubs and other hardy plants suited to short summers
and extreme winter colds.
Coniferous forest- Forest of trees with needles and drop their seeds in cones
Broadleaf forest- Forest of trees that lose their leaves as the winter approaches
Transition Zones: Natural vegetation Regions
Continued
Transition zone- An area through which one physical region gradually gives
way to another.
Natural Vegetation patterns change gradually
Ecozone Regions
Physical regions can have sharp boundaries or they can pass through gradual
transition zones.
Drawing regional boundaries becomes harder when different environmental factors are
combined.
Ecozone-
A region identified by several factors, including
landforms, climate, soil, and natural vegetation.
Each ecozone has different environmental conditions. It support living things.
Ontario has three ecozones.
They are Hudson Plains, Boreal Shield and Mixed Wood Plains.
Parts of the Boreal Shield are threatened
Zoom In
Questions
1) What is a region?
- a part of the Earth’s surface that has similar
characteristics throughout its extent
– answer depends
2) Give an example of a
physical region
3) What is a ecozone?
-A region identified by several factors, including
landforms, climate, soil, and natural vegetation.
4)- How many ecozones
does Ontario have?
- three ecozones.
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Pages 54-59
Regions
Human Regions
- Functional
- Formal
Formal
Functional
What is a formal region?
- Formal regions
What is a functional region?
- Functional region
- Boundaries change based on technology,
advertising, and customer tastes
Urban Regions
- urbanization
- metropolitan area
Urban Regions (continued)
- Environmentalists play an important part in
directing the growth of urban regions such as
the GTA
- Urban sprawl
Will Ontario’s Greenbelt Plan work?
- The Ontario government created
the greenbelt
Chapter in Brief
- four geographic themes
place/location, movement,
environment, and interaction
- Watershed, Eco zones, and
Ontario’s greenbelt
Questions
1. What are the two types of
regions? Explain them.
2. Name two things that you can
identify a formal region by
Answers
a. Formal Region: identified
by its characteristics
b. Functional Region
3. Is the GTA a functional, formal,
or urban region?
1. landforms, climate, waters, soils,
or natural vegetation
4. What are the four Geographic
themes?
2. The GTA is an Urban region
3. place/location, movement,
environment, and interaction