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1
Of all the fisheries in Canada, this is the most important:
Pacific coast
Arctic coast
Atlantic coast
Inland lakes and rivers
2
The L in LOWER Near Water stands for:
Lakes and Rivers
Large bodies of water
Latitude
Longitude
3
Schools and churches are examples of this type of urban land use:
institutional
denominational
educational
rural
4
Cod, a depleted stock in Atlantic Canada, is this type of fish:
Crustacean
Shellfish
Pelagic fish
Groundfish
5
Regardless of the content, all maps require:
A detailed legend
Use of symbols
The name of the author
A title
6
A mineral reserve of 1000000 tonnes and production of 100000 tonnes / yr. has an R/P ratio of:
100 years
10 years
1000 years
1 year
7
All living and non-living components of the environment can be referred to as:
the total shock
the natural resources stock
the total stock
the stock market
8
This is an example of a depositional feature of glaciation:
Erratic
Arete
Striation Marks
U-shaped valley
9
For the average Canadian, this is the highest residential water use:
toilets
kitchen and drinking
showers and baths
clothes washing
10
a job that brings in money from outside the local economy is called a:
basic job
non-basic job
elementary job
secondary job
11
The average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime is called:
TFR
PVR
RCA
DVD
12
The easternmost physical region in Canada is:
The Appalachians
The Canadian Shield
The Interior Plains
The Western Cordillera
13
Natural resources (with the exception of minerals):
are all non-renewable
are almost all used up
are all partially renewable
are all renewable
14
Population numbers, in real terms, can change by:
adding emigrants
multiplying natural increases
subtracting deaths
Subtracting births
15
When tectonic plates are colliding into each other, this is called:
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Subvergent
16
A rock that contains enough of a valuable metallic mineral to make mining profitable is:
A non-metallic mineral
A metallic mineral
An ore
A precious metal
17
Wheat farming or cattle ranching are examples of:
extensive farming
intensive farming
intrusive farming
extrusive farming
18
These are the three map scale types:
GIS, GPS, HMS
Linear, Direct Statement, Ratio
Linear, Circular, Rectangular
Non-linear, Indirect Statement, Guess
19
Canada provides foreign aid:
All answers are correct
Through NGO's
Through bi-lateral agreements
Through multi-lateral agreements
20
Canada accepted many Syrians into Canada in recent years, under this immigration class:
Refugee
Economic
Family
Other
21
Earlier rural settlement patterns in Canada looked like this:
Concentrated
Dispersed
All answers are correct
Linear
22
In recent decades, most of Canada's immigration has been from:
SE Asia
United States
Australia
Europe
23
The first step in the Inquiry Process is to:
Gather and Organize information
Analyze the information
Communicate your conclusions
Formulate questions
24
Reasons why a person would leave a country permanently are called:
Push factors
Pull Factors
Leaving factors
Trip and Fall factors
25
Urbanized areas that run into each other (like along the highway) are an example of:
Continuous Urbanumene
Discontinuous Ecumene
Continuous Ecumene
Discontinuous Urbanity
26
Canada belongs in this stage of the Demographic Transition Model:
3
2
4
1
27
"Resources are not, they become." Who said this?
the Great Erichian
Erich the Red
Erich Zimmerman
Waldo Von Erich
28
The top two Canadian cities for immigration are:
Toronto and Montreal
Halifax and Montreal
Vancouver and Toronto
Calgary and Vancouver
29
Canada has this many physical or landform regions:
7
5
12
9
30
The extracting of natural resources is considered part of this Industry:
Tertiary
Secondary
Primary
Quaternary
31
Canada's population distribution is:
mostly in Lake Ontario
Scattered equally
Uneven and concentrated in areas
concentrated up north
32
As of 2012, Canada ranked at this level in diamond value production internationally:
Second
First
Fourth
Third
33
With this type of location grid system, you can locate to 4 or 6 digit accuracy:
None of the above
Alphanumeric
Map or Military
Latitude and Longitude
34
Generally speaking, dependency loads are better if they are:
higher in the older dependents group
smaller percentage
more than the working population
larger percentage
35
Mississaugans live in this time zone:
EST
PST
AST
MST
36
If one lives in an apartment building, he/she lives in:
high-density residential
low-density residential
commercial
medium-density residential
37
The statement, "students who study longer should do better on tests" is a statement of:
Fact
None of the above
Supported Argument
Opinion
38
This area of the world has been most able to manufacture at cheap labour costs:
Europe
South America
SE Asia
Africa
39
Climate graphs are used to:
demonstrate best places for immigration
demonstrate temperature and precipitation in an area
demonstrate the relationship between climate and soils
demonstrate landforms and climate patterns in an area
40
Subtracting the death rate from the birth rate gives the:
natural increase rate
population doubling time
population growth rate
net migration rate
41
When considering liveability and sustainability, it is best to:
Maximize sustainability at all costs
Maximize liveability at the expense of sustainability
Balance both as much as possible
Remove them both from the community as soon as possible
42
A factory worker in Canada would like it best if:
Canadian consumers by only American products
Canadian consumers don't buy their products
Canadian consumers buy only a little of their products
Canadian consumers bought their products over foreign ones
43
when doing research, the best material found is:
Important but not necessarily interesting
Important and Interesting
Not important but interesting to you
Not important or interesting (random)
44
Approximately this percentage of jobs in Canada are in the Tertiary sector:
50%
100%
25%
75%
45
The dependency load on a population pyramid refers to:
the female side of the pyramid
young and old dependents
people 16-64 years of age
people over 45 years of age
46
A population with a growth rate of 0.5% would see its population double in:
140 years
70 years
25 years
will never double
47
Long term average temperature and precipitation patterns in a given area is called:
Erosion
Climate
Weather
Weathering
48
The least expensive of the types of mining operations is:
Strip mining
Underground mining
Surface mining
Open-Pit mining
49
The earliest of the major geologic eras was:
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
Precambrian
Paleozoic
50
Canada has this percentage of the total area of farmland, rated Class 1:
4.5
8.2
86.8
0.5
51
Of Canada's biggest 18 companies in 2014, most were from this sector:
Primary
Quaternary
Secondary
Tertiary
52
For a heavy manufactured product, this location factor would most likely be most important:
Labour supply
Transportation
Circumstance
Available fresh water and power
53
No countries in the world remain in this stage demographically:
Early transition (stage 2)
Post-transition (stage 4)
Pre-transition (stage 1)
Late transition (stage 3)
54
Subtracting the minimum temperature from the maximum temperature on a climate graph provides:
the graph's temperature range
the graph's average temperature
the graph's growing season annually
the graph's annual precipitation
55
Canada belongs in this grouping of nations:
Developing
Neo-developing
Developed
Newly Industrializing
56
In terms of the three R's, this is considered the best:
three R's don't help, keep producing new products
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
57
A region's variety of physical and biological features can be neatly defined as:
an Ecozone
a Physiozone
an Isozone
a Biozone
58
For both extraction and consumption of water stores globally, this major use is the leader:
Urban development
Industry
Agriculture
Domestic (home) use
59
Characteristics of a community that contribute to the quality of life of the people there are:
economic stability
liveability
sustainability
social integration
60
Population density is calculated by:
Dividing population by area
Subtracting births from immigrants
Adding populations of provinces
Dividing population by density
61
This question is NOT one of the three key questions about developing a sense of place:
Why care?
Why don't we go there?
What is where?
Why there?
62
The following are examples of geotechnologies:
GPS devices
all of the answers
Your smartphones
GIS software
63
The increase in total wealth or income that occurs when money is injected into an economy is:
the Division Effect
the Subtraction Effect
the Addition Effect
the Multiplier Effect
64
Compared to other countries, Canada has a:
Low population density
High population distribution
High population density
Low population distribution
65
The largest of the industries by number of jobs in Canada is:
Primary
Tertiary
Quaternary
Secondary
66
Granite is a common form of this type of rock:
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Igneous
Transmorphic
67
Continental Drift theory was proposed by:
Alfred Wegener
George Washington
Sir John A. MacDonald
J. Tuzo Wilson
68
climate graphs we have constructed in class are a combination of these types of graphs:
Bar and Multiple
Bar and Circle
Line and Bar
Line and Pie
69
The following are all primary sources except:
drawings or paintings
photos and satellite images
newspaper articles
unedited sound or visual recordings
70
There are these many steps in the Geographic Inquiry process:
3
4
5
2
71
A map representing a region's size by its population is called:
A region size by population map
An Isodemographic map
A population map
An Isopopulation map
72
Of the following, this is NOT a fossil fuel:
Oil and Tarsands
Natural Gas
Coal
Methane and Geothermal
73
Of the listed methods, this is the most economic way to cut down forests:
Shelterwood logging
Selective cutting
Clear cutting
none of the answers
74
A forest that has never been logged is considered:
Protected forest
Old-growth forest
Ancient forest
Ready to cut forest
75
This type of map shows political borders and the names of important places or features:
Topographic map
Thematic map
Historical map
Political map
76
The following statement is most accurate:
Soils and vegetation are regulated by climate
Neither soils nor vegetation depend on climate
Vegetation in the north is more regulated than in the south
Soils only are regulated by climate, not vegetation
77
This type of urban land use takes up the most room in a city, generally:
transportation
residential
industrial
commercial
78
Sunlight, wind, and water currents are all examples of:
renewable resources
non-renewable resources
other resources
flow resources
79
The importance of a particular location in geography is known as:
Spatial Significance
Interrelationships
Patterns and Trends
Geographic Perspective
80
global water shortages can be reduced by:
bottling more water than drinking from a tap
evaporation of the oceans
drinking more water
bulk water exports
81
For the Canadian consumer, the cheapest cost of products would result if:
they paid more tariffs
if the product was acquired through protectionism
if the product was acquired through free trade
if they paid less tariffs
82
When a country's currency is driven up by the growth of natural resource exports, it is called:
Loonie Disease
American Disease
Dutch Disease
Canada Disease
83
Sustained Yield Management techniques can be applied to:
all answers are correct
the Fishing Industry
the Forestry Industry
the Farming Industry
84
The question: "What if Canada stopped allowing immigrants into Canada?" is considered a:
Causal question
Comparative question
Evaluative question
Speculative question
85
People generally migrate from one country to another to:
Visit for a vacation
Improve their quality of life
Stay with family for a short while
Find the best restaurants