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Chapter 3: Geography

Chapter 3: Geography. Ms. Bartolome. Tuesday, April 25. Importance of Place. Geographers use five organizing principles to help them gather, organize, and analyze their information. Places have a location . Importance of Place. Five organizing principles of Geography…

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Chapter 3: Geography

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  1. Chapter 3: Geography Ms. Bartolome Tuesday, April 25

  2. Importance of Place • Geographers use five organizing principles to help them gather, organize, and analyze their information. • Places have a location.

  3. Importance of Place • Five organizing principles of Geography… 2. Places have physical and cultural characteristics.

  4. Importance of Place • Five organizing principles of Geography… 3. Places change.

  5. Importance of Place • Five organizing principles of Geography… 4. Places interact with other places.

  6. Importance of Place • Five organizing principles of Geography… 5.Places are in regions

  7. Physical Regions of Western Canada • Regions divided by differences in Earth’s landscape • Geological features • Landforms • Climate conditions 1. Canadian Shield 2. Interior Plains 3. Western Mountains

  8. Physical Regions of Western Canada • The Canadian Shield It stretches from the Arctic islands around Hudson Bay to the Adirondack Mountains in the US, and east across Labrador. Shields = Large masses of rock, which are the oldest parts of the Earth. At one point in time the shield was a volcanic mountain range as high as the Himalayas.

  9. Physical Regions of Western Canada • The Canadian Shield Over millions of years it has been weathered and eroded down to a landscape of exposed rocks and lakes. Original make up of the shield was igneous rock, but this has changed by heat/pressure making it into metamorphic rock. -making the shield a vast storehouse of mineral ie. copper, gold, lead, and nickel As a result of the exposed rock, agriculture and large scale settlement have been difficult on the shield.

  10. Physical Regions of Western Canada • The Interior Plains The Interior Plains stretches from the Canadian Shield to the Rocky Mountains. The plains have been formed as eroded material from the shield was deposited in layers (horizontal layers are made up of sedimentary rock). Millions of years ago when there was a tropical climate in the area, and water covered some of it, occasional flooding left deposits of plants and animals -fossil fuels (ie. oil, natural gas, potash) -formed by being compressed between sedimentary layers of rock

  11. Physical Regions of Western Canada • The Western Mountains Made up of parallel mountain ranges that are separated by a series of plateaus and valleys. Rockies and the Coastal Mountains, along with the interior Plateau, were formed when plate collision caused the Earth’s crust to buckle lifting sections into the air. Sediments carried away by the rivers formed the rich “Fraser River Valley” -rich in minerals ie. copper, gold, molybdenum, coal

  12. Mapping the Physical Regions • On your map… • draw the 3 physical regions of Western Canada • color each region a different color • include an appropriate title • include a legend that indicates the region names and the related color • include a North arrow facing the proper direction • include your name • Your map will be graded according to inclusion of the required elements, accuracy, and neatness.

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