CGC 1D- PHYSICAL & HUMAN GEOGRAPHY TEST REVIEW 2015

Test Date: Monday, April 20

Earth Structure

  • Understand how a convection current in Earth’s interior moves a tectonic plate.

Earthquakes in Canada

  • Are there earthquakes in Canada? Explain the patterns. Identify the regions prone to earthquakes. What area of Canada is at greatest risk of earthquakes? Why?

Continental Drift

  • What is Pangaea? How has the Earth changed since then? Explain continental drift, and provide evidence that supports this theory.

Plate Tectonics

  • What does the concept of plate tectonics explain?

Define and explain each of the four types of plate movement: subduction, collision/convergence, divergence, transform faults. Be able to explain the effects of plate movement on the landscape.

  • What are the two different types of plates?
  • Define Plate Tectonics
  • Outline the forces that build up Canada’s landscape (e.g., volcanoes, earthquakes, folding and faulting).

Landform Regions

  • Be able to classify each region into highlands, lowlands or shield.
  • Identify one or two key characteristics for each region

Big questions

  • How does the physical geography of the Earth affect people?
  • How do people affect the Earth?
  • How will the Earth continue to change?

Population Distribution and Canadian Cities

  • Population distribution
  • What factors influence where Canadians live?

Demographics and World Population

  • How does Canada compare? Consider some real examples: Afghanistan, Germany, and the Republic of Congo
  • What’s the pattern of world population growth? Where is population growing fastest?
  • What’s happening to growth in North America? What’s the problem with North American consumption patterns?
  • How can policies influence the birth rate?
  • Rule of 70, doubling times, dependency loads – how to calculate and issues associated with them
  • Population pyramids – how to create and analyze
  • What are the implications of an aging population in Canada?

Immigration issues

  • Historical immigration trends in Canada
  • Push and Pull factors

Skills

  • Reading and analyzing maps, graphs and charts
  • Analyzing demographic data
  • Calculating doubling times, creating a population pyramid
  • Interpret an isodemographic map

Big Questions

  • Where do people live in Canada? What factors influence where people live?
  • What are the trends in where Canadians are living (e.g., growth and decline)?
  • How different are Canadians’ standard of living to others?
  • How is Canada’s population changing?What are the implications of an aging population for Canadians?
  • Why does Canada encourage immigration?