CGC 1W1 Canadian Geography Final Exam Review 2025 PDF

**[CGC 1W1- Canadian Geography Final Exam Review]** *In conjunction with this exam review, you should study from your Unit Tests, along with your coursework, and any assignments done in class.* **Exam Layout** Part C: Application- Diagrams (20 marks) Part D: Communication- Short and Long Answer...

**[CGC 1W1- Canadian Geography Final Exam Review]** *In conjunction with this exam review, you should study from your Unit Tests, along with your coursework, and any assignments done in class.* **Exam Layout** Part C: Application- Diagrams (20 marks) Part D: Communication- Short and Long Answer (20 marks)\\ **[All tools necessary for the exam: ]** A. Pencil (NO PENS) B. Eraser C. Calculator D. Ruler (Optional) E. Sharpener **TOTAL EXAM: 100 MARKS** **Unit One:** 1. List all of the provinces of Canada and where to find them on a map. 2. What is the Capital city of Canada? Where is it located? 3. List the Great Lakes 4. **What are the different types of maps?** 5. **State the 6 essential features of a map.** 6. **What is Longitude and Latitude?** 7. **Define interrelationships, spatial significance, trends, and patterns.** 8. **What is the difference between Geographic Perspective, Geographic Inquiry, and Geotechnology?** 9. **What are the eight directions on a Compass Rose?** 10. **What is the difference between a GPS and a GIS?** **Unit Two:** 11. Discuss the theory of tectonic plates. Who developed this theory and how? 12. What are the four types of plate movements? 13. What are convection currents and how do they affect plate movement? 14. What is a soil profile? How many layers are there and what are they? 15. What makes Soils so important to civilizations? 16. **What is the process of Glaciation?** 17. **Describe the process of the rock cycle and the processes within it.** 18. **Discuss why Glaciation is responsible for shaping Canada.** 19. **What are the three landform regions in Canada?** 20. **What is the difference between Climate and Weather?** 21. **State the six factors that influence climate.** 22. **Study the climate, soil, and vegetation regions of Canada.** 23. **What is a climate graph? What information does it represent and how?** 24. **Using a Climate graph, how would you find the annual precipitation, temperature range, average monthly temperature, and the season of maximum precipitation?** 25. **How do we use a Climate Graph to classify the climate of a given region? (Maritime or Continental)** **Unit Three:** 26. Define Demography. What is it the study of? 27. Describe the differences between Immigration and Emigration? What does it mean to immigrate or emigrate? 28. **What is the natural migration rate versus natural increase rate?** 29. Canada's future population growth is dependent on immigration. Why is this? 30. Why do we use rates instead of numbers when describing populations? 31. **What is the birth rate of the population? How do we calculate it?** 32. **What is the death rate of a population? How would we calculate it?** 33. What are the four types of population development? 34. What is the natural increase rate? How do we calculate it? 35. What does the GNH stand for? 36. What are the two classifications Canada has for immigrants? 37. What are Population Pyramids? What do they represent? (Refer to Population Pyramid assignment) 38. **What is the dependency load?** 39. **What are the three categories used to define populations?** 40. **What is the difference between a Rural and Urban settlement?** 41. **What do the terms livability and sustainability refer to?** 42. **Describe a 20-Minute Neighborhood.** 43. **What is a Land conflict? What factors of maximum benefit are usually centered in a land conflict?** **Unit Four:** 1. Describe the four types of resources and the characteristics. 2. What are the 3 R's and their relationship to resource management? 3. Elaborate on the 3 main perspectives regarding resource management and use (Individual, Companies, Government). How can each group rethink their means of resource usage? 4. There are three different economic activities that rely on renewable resources. What are they? 5. **Discuss the importance of water. In what ways is water important? What sort of relationship do we have with it? What about the relationship some indigenous peoples have with water? How does it differ from most Canadians?** 6. **Detail the Water Cycle.** 7. **The four energy sectors in Canada is?** 8. **What are the three types of mining?** 9. **What are the location factors of manufacturing? Describe how they affect manufacturing.** 10. **What are the 3 interconnected groups that influence the economy in society?** 11. **List the four economic sectors of Canada** 12. **What is the difference between Free Trade and Tariffs?**