Grade 9 Social Studies Canadian Identity Chapter 3 Review Canada s People Chapter 3: Canada s People
Terms (notes or textbook) Population Distribution Site Factors Seigneurial system Corridors Urbanization Infrastructure Archipelago effect Situation factors Township system Industrial Revolution Rural to Urban Drift Hierarchy Population Density Relocation Sections Rural Urban Megacities Core and Periphery 1. a) Archipelago Effect. Where are the islands of population found in Canada and Why? Pg. 43 b) How can Canada s Population Density be misleading when we talk about Canada s Population? (See Activity: How Many People Live There) 2 a) What is the difference between Site Factors and Situation Factors in regard to the location of human settlement? Give examples. Pg. 45 and Settlement Patterns Activity b) What advantages do the following have on the location of Human Settlement? Pg. 45 i) Bridges ii) Confluence iii) Head of Navigation iv) Island / Peninsula v) Sheltered Harbour vi) Resources
3. Give a brief description of the following Settlement patterns. Pg 47 and Settlement Patterns Activity a) Seigneurial System b) Township system 4. Account for the growth/decline of cities and rural areas in Canada using site and situation factors, rural-to-urban drift and the industrial revolution. Pg 48-51 and Growth/Decline Activity 5. What are the four categories that regions can be classified. Briefly describe each and give examples? Pg. 53-54 and Canada s Political Regions Activity 6. Megacities. What are megacites and what are some of the problems associated with them? Pg. 51 7. Figure 3.12 Canada s political regions KNOW THE MAP from the assignment and Page 53 8. Regional Characteristics (See Assignment ) Region Key Industries Natural Resources Location Physical/Cultural The North British Columbia The Prairies Central Canada Atlantic Canada 9. Making Comparisons Students will have to complete a Venn Diagram similar to that of p.60 and Canada s Political Regions activity
Additional Notes: Chapter 3 - Canada s People This chapter investigates where people live in Canada and why? Population Distribution - describes where people have chosen to live in the particular country Archipelago Effect - a term used to describe Canada s pockets of settlements as a group of Islands. Population Density - a measure of how closely together people live in a given area or country Population Density Formula Divide the number of people in the area by its size this gives an average number per square kilometer Canada s population density is 3.1 Compared to Netherlands which has more than 400 per square kilometer This is an example of how population density can be misleading. There are large areas of Canada that are not populated but are in the equation Population Pockets in Canada with over 100 people per Square Kilometer Vancouver Toronto to Hamilton Montréal Ottawa Québec Site Factors - the features of the physical landscape that attract people to an area. Situation Factors factors involving the relationship of a place to other places
Settlement Patterns Most of Canada s population patterns are a result of the interaction of history and culture with the physical landscape. Relocation a force movement of group of people Seigneurial System - a system of land holding that was used in France and later and Québec: lead to a settlement pattern of a long narrow lots facing rivers and roads. Township System - used in Ontario based on square blocks of 100 acres. Sections a process of dividing the land used when settling the prairies. Growth and Decline of Settlements Classified - to arrange things or ideas into groups based on shared qualities Communities are often classified based on the services they provide Corridors an area of urban development that extends from a large city, or after a long major highway Rural - describes those areas, often agriculture, that are located outside towns and cities. 1881, three out of every four Canadians lived in a rural settlement: then Canada went through an industrial revolution the transition of an economy based on agriculture to one based on manufacturing. People started to move to urban areas. Urban describes towns and cities with a population of 1000 or more, or at least 400 people per square kilometer. Rural to Urban Drift the move of people from rural to urban areas. By 1939, more than half of Canada s population was in urban areas. Urbanization the process by which a rural area becomes urban has increased Megacities - are very large urban areas that face difficulties, such as overcrowding, Environmental problems, and deteriorating infrastructure.
Canada: a Regional Perspective Regional Analysis - is a tool used by geographers: Where characteristics of a region can be broken down into four categories : 1) location 2) physical culture and characteristics 3) political perspective 4) hierarchy: a system of ranking one thing over on another: in geography, the ranking of smaller regions within larger regions are an example of hierarchy. Chart page 52 Learn all 5 regions: also choose one aspect of location, Physical/Cultural Attributes, Political Perspectives, Hierarchy. Make your own chart, and learn it. Core and periphery - comparing the most developed part of the region to the areas around them, and the relationshipthey have. Core - the most developed nucleus of a geographic region, usually has greatest wealth and population density. Periphery - of is all of the areas outside the core. Often referred to as a "hinterland".