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Atmosphere

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Gases surrounding a planet

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Birth rate

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Amount of births per 1000 people

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Death rate

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Amount of deaths per 1000 people

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Push factor

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Things that make someone leave a country

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Pull factors

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Things that make someone come to a country

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Aboriginal

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Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists

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Canadian Shield

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Precambrian
Igneous
Ancient mountains of rock
Metallic minerals, flat with rounded hills
Mining,forestry, tourism
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Coniferous tree

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Come bearing needle leaved tree

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Climate

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The long term pattern of weather for a place averaged for a long period of time

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Compass bearing

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Degrees on a compass measured in clockwise direction from 0N to 360

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Conventional precipitation

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Formation of precipitation due to surface heating of the air at the ground surface. If enough heating occurs the mass of the air begins to rise expand and ease. When sufficient cooling has taken place precipitation occurs
Season-summer
Where-prairies

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Frontal precipitation

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When 2 air masses converge/meet
1 is usually warm and moist and the other cold and dry
The leading edge of the cold air mass acts as a wall and causes the warm air mass to be lifted
The lifting causes the warm air mass to cool (due to expansion)
Season-all year *mostly summer
Where-Ontario and eastern Canada

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Relief precipitation

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Due to mountain barriers
When an air mass rises to cross a mountain barrier
Winds carrying moisture are forced up the side of mountain. As they move up the mountain side they cool down and the moisture condenses into clouds. Rain occurs on windward side (lush vegetation). The dry winds continue over the mountain where little rain occurs as the wind las lost its moisture and its dry
Season-winter Max
Where-BC west coast

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Deciduous tree

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Leaves fall seasonally

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Demography

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The study of population numbers, distribution, trends,and issues

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Dependency load

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Not working and getting money from other places not your own (dependent on others)

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Doubling time

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How long it will take for a countries population to double

Dividing 70 by the population growth rate

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Emigrate

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Leaves ones country to permanently stay in another country

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Erosion

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the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.

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Family class immigrant

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Enables reunification of families

Composed of individuals with job skills since they do not qualify under the point system

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GDP

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The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period, though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis.

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Global warming

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an increase in the earth’s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.

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GPS

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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Igneous rock

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Rocks formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials. Igneous rocks can form beneath the Earth ‘s surface, or at its surface, as lava.

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Imagrate
To come into another country and live there
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Latitude
West to east
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Longitude
North to south
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Life expectancy
Average life span of a population
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Metamorphic rock
Rock that was once one form of rock but has changed to another under the influence of heat, pressure, or some other agent without passing through a liquid phase.
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Mixed forest
Found in mix wood plains and Atlantic maritime ecozones In the north fir and spruce dominate; in the south, coniferous trees such as white pine, hemlock and red pine grow together with hardy deciduous trees such as maple, leech and oak Conifers are harvested for lumber and pulp and paper; hardwood for lumber
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Multicultural
of, relating to, or representing several different cultures or cultural elements: a multicultural society.
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Natural increase
Birth rate subtract death rate Increasing rate Most important reason behind a change in a countries population size
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Natural vegetation
Vegetation that has grown by itself in different areas with the help of rainfall, sunlight and all the other elements...without special maintenance or raising by humans.
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Pangaea
Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It formed approximately 300 million years ago and began to break apart after about 100 million years
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Plate tectonics
a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
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Population density
the number of people living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile); the number of people relative to the space occupied by them
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Population distribution
the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area; also, how the population of an area is arranged according to variables such as age, race, or sex
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Population growth rate
the rate at which the number of individuals in a population increases in a given time period, expressed as a fraction of the initial population.
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Population pyramid
an age pyramid or age picture diagram, is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.
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Prevailing winds
A wind that blows predominantly from a single general direction. The trade winds of the tropics, which blow from the east throughout the year, are prevailing winds. See illustration at wind.
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is a dry area on the lee side of a mountainous area (away from the wind). The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.
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Refugee
a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
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Rule of 70
Dividing 70 by the population growth rate to estimate how many years it will take for a country to double in size
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Scale
The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. This simple concept is complicated by the curvature of the Earth's surface, which forces scale to vary across a map.
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Sedimentary rock
Formed from igneous rock that was eroded by wind, water and ice
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Self government
control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
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Temperature range
Maximum temp subtract minimum temp
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Treaty
A formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
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Tundra
one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Weather
the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
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Westerlies
The Westerlies, anti-trades, or Prevailing Westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude
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Temporary foreign workers
a program of the Government of Canada to allow employers in Canada to hire foreign nationals. When the program started in 1973, most of the workers brought in were high-skill workers such as specialist doctors.
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Front
When the cold air is denser than warm air so cold air has more powerful winds
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Moderating effect
Large body of water that keeps u cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter and moist overall
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Average annual temperature range
Taking all temperatures of the year and Averaging all them
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Independent immigrant
Economic class of those who need point system
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Calculating ecological footprint
Take your categories and make into a percentage (look at picture)
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What percentage of Canada is forested
42%
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Prime meridian
The prime meridian is the planet’s line of zero degrees longitude.
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Which region is most productive
West coast because most growing season
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Ecological footprint
The effect our community has on the natural environment Measure of our resource use and waste production Calculation: housing, food, transportation, purchases, waste Take amount from each category and divide by total amount from all categories then multiply 100 and that is the percent
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Tariff
Tax charged on goods imported into Canada in order to produce Canadian goods

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