Grade 7 Geography Ontario - Unit 1 Pearson
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| The five themes of Geography | 1. Place / Location
2. Movement
3. Environment
4. Interaction
5. Region
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| Place | a bounded area; a locality such as a town or a city. A part of the earth recognized as separate or different from other parts.
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| Landmark | an object or landform that identifies a place. Examples: the Horseshoe Falls and the Peterborough Liftlock.
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| Geography | the study of the earth's surface and people's relationship to it.
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| Relative Location | description of a place in relation to other places, using landmarks, distance, or compass directions. Example: My home is the second house just around the corner from John's house.
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| Absolute Location | a description of a place independent of any other place. Usually described with longitude and latitude. Example: a location on a map.
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| Hemisphere | half of a sphere or globe, especially the earth. Canada is in the Western Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere.
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| Latitude | the distance, north or south of the equator. Latitude is 0 at the equator and 90 degrees at the North pole.
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| Longitude | the distance, east or west of the prime meridian (Greenwich, England. Zero is at the line that passes through Greenwich and numbers go up to 180 degrees.
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| Alphanumeric Grid | are lines that divide a map into squares, with numbers along the top and bottom and letters along the sides to help find a location.
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| Movement | is the flow of people, products,information and elements of nature. Examples: migration, transport systems.
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| Public Transit | transportation that includes buses, subway trains, streetcars and commuter trains.
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| Container freight systems | is a system for moving products that uses standard-sized metal boxes that attach to trucks, trains and ships.
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| Five environmental factors | 1. Landforms
2. Climate
3. Water
4. Soils
5. Natural vegetation
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| Landforms | Examples: volcanos, mountains, ocean depths, plains.
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| Climate | is the long-term average of weather conditions at a particular place. Includes: average temperature and rainfall.
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| Water | - found in the atmosphere and on earth.
- fixed amount circulates and is recycled through natural processes.
- most species need a fresh source of this to survive.
- humans should drink 2 L at day.
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| Soil | Made of a mixture of worm rock particles and decayed organic material from natural vegetation. Human settlement and agriculture are common when supply of this is good and fertile.
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| Natural Vegetation | develops in response to climate and soil conditions.
- used for food, building materials, amongst other purposes.
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| Interaction in Geography | - the act or process of having an effect on each other.
- the connection between people and the earth.
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| Region | is a part of the earth's surface that has similar characteristics through out its area. Regions can be physical like a watershed region, or defined by physical geography (mountains, foothills, prairies), or by vegetation (ie.deciduous and boreal forest)
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| Ecozones | is a region identified by several factors, including land forms, climate, soil, and natural vegetation. (ie. prairies, arctic cordillera, mixed wood plains, boreal shield.)
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| Formal Regions | an area with at least one characteristic that is common throughout the area. Identified by landforms, climate, waters, soils or natural vegetation. Also, political areas with boundaries - province, country, county, town/city)
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| Functional Regions | an area identified by what occurs within it. (ie. area code regions for phones, postal codes for mail service)
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| Urbanization | a population shift from the countryside to cities.
- currently a world wide
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