Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How is Canada Diverse?
- STUDY OF POPULATION
- IMMIGRATION
- Immigration makes a large part of Canada
- Canadian culture today has been influenced by many
other religions and beliefs.
- Immigration helps increase the economy with
more jobs and workers. There will be more businesses
- Immigration Point System
allows immigrants who are
skilled
- BABY BOOMERS
- Baby boomers impact the economy
- More susceptible to illness and disease, increasing the
demand for healthcare services. Further research to treat
and or cure certain diseases as well
- Baby boomers make a large portion of Canada's
work force. With most of them retiring, this will
impact the Canadian economy
- CULTURE AND DIVERSITY
- There is a large variety of languages, culture and background
- Canada's official languages are English and French.
Despite this, there are many other langauges being
spoken across Canada
- MANAGING RESOURCES
- INDUSTRIES
- There are different industries across Canada
- The Boreal forest covers a large portion of Canada, making it a
huge part of the forestry industry which can be used as trade
- Provinces in the maritimes are usually where the fishing
industries are since they are near bodies of water
- Canadian Shield is mainly comprised of rocks, where a lot of minerals can be found. Diamond mining is
more likely to be found in large areas of clear land scattered across the Northwest Territories.
- SUSTAINABILITY
- We use both non renewable and renewable resources but it's
important to maintain them sustainably
- Rely on renewable resources such as wind and solar energy
instead of fossil fuels which will eventually run out
- We use a lot of our land to build houses, schools and hospitals which increases
traffic and pollution increasing ecological footprint
- TRADE
- Trade agreements such as NAFTA and CETA
help import things we don't have much of
and export things we have plenty of
- LIVEABLE COMMUNITIES
- URBANIZATION
- Some places are more urbanized than others
- Places up north have a very low population and as a result, the quality of life
is not as good. Services such as health care, transportation and education are
not well funded and are low quality
- Most people live in urban areas because the climate tends to be nicer,
there is more infrastructure and the quality of services is much better
- LIVEABILITY
- Social, environmental, political and economic factors
impact liveability
- A city with more green space attracts people since it benefits the
environment and also prvoides a space for recreational needs
- Cities with high levels of pollution are bad for the environment making it less liveable
- PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
- GEOLOGICAL HISTORY
- Plate movement, volcano eruptions all helped form each of
the landforms
- Each landform region was created during different geological times.
The Canadian Shield was formed about 6 billion years ago during the
Neoarchean era through processes of tectonic plates.
- LANDFORM REGIONS
- Each of the Landform regions are different from each other
- The 7 landform regions are Arctic, Interior Plains, Canadian Shield,
Hudson Bay Lowlands, Appalachian Mountains, Western Cordillera,
and the St Lawrence Lowlands
- Each of these landform regions have climate factors that
affect them. For example, the appalachian mountains are
affected by elevation causing more precipitation on the
windward side
- Depending on the landform region, it can be a push/pull factor.
Someone who skies a lot would prefer to live in the mountain regions
- SOIL AND VEGETATION
- Soil and Vegetation are greatly affected by climate regions
- In the Arctic climate region, the soil is frozen and most
plants are not able to grow in such harsh conditions.
- The Boreal forest is the largest vegetation region in
Canada covering 14% of Earth's land
- CLIMATE REGIONS
- Each Climate Region has different characteristics
- The Arctic climate region is extremely cold, only a small portion of
Canada's population is situated there.
- The Southeastern climate region is the most dense and populated.
It is located near the U.S. border
- MAPPING
- TYPES OF MAPS
- Different types of landforms show different maps
- Mountainous and rocky areas will have more contour lines to
show the changes in elevation in a topographic map
- Cities with water will be evident in a map,
hinted by the blue
- Areas where there is flatter land and a denser
population will not have as many contour lines but
more roads and buildings