Chapter 3 Review Questions

 

* Remember all questions are to be answered in complete sentences and use paragraphs where appropriate.

 

1.  Define population distribution.

 

2.  Define and explain archipelago effect.

 

3.  Define population density.

 

4.  What is Canada’s population density in comparison to the Netherlands?

 

5.  How is population density misleading?

 

6.  Define site factor.

 

7.  Provide three examples of local site factors.

 

8.  Provide three examples of First Nations people and where they originally lived.

 

9.  Why did Europeans want to occupy the land of the First Nations peoples?

 

10.  What did the Constitution Act of 1892 recognize?

 

11.  Discuss the term Indian and non Indian and when these terms should be used.

 

12.  Explain the seigneural system and what settlement pattern resulted?

 

13.  Explain the township system and what settlement pattern resulted?

 

14.  When did settlement in the North begin?

 

15.  Explain settlement on the Atlantic coast.

 

16.  Explain settlement on the West coast.

 

17.  Discuss the relationship between farmers and towns.

 

18.  Describe one way to classify communities and explain.

 

19.  Discuss the term corridor.

 

20.  Define rural.

 

21.  Define urban.

22.  Explain rural to urban drift.

 

23.  Discuss some of the implications of rural to urban drift.

 

24.  Summarize the factors that encourage people to move to cities.

 

25.  Define urbanization.

 

26.  Discuss some of the various problems that urbanization creates for rural areas.

 

27.  Define megacity and provide three examples of megacities.

 

28.  What various problems do citizens of megacities face?  Why are they different from typical cities?

 

29.  List the five regions of Canada and list each province/ territory that makes up that region.

 

30.  List the four categories of region and discuss.

 

31.  Define core.

 

32.  Define periphery.

 

33.  Define Métis.

 

34.  Define Inuit.

 

35.  Discuss regional identity.

 

36.  Explain regional stereotype and provide three examples of regional stereotypes.