Envsocty 2oc3 exam questions and answers passed latest update 2025-2026
Canada is best understood from a... - -Regional perspective
-What are the 6 regions - -Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, Western Canada,
British Columbia, Territorial North
-Regions are designated by... - -"Core" physical and human characteristics
-Why these 6 regions? - -Manageable number, balanced territorial size, economic
importance, political structure, statistical data, regional identity
-What distinguises each region? - -Geographic location, regional consciousness,
historical development, population size, economic strength
-What is a faultline? - -A perceived division that splits groups into two or more
subgroups based on individual differences
a geological metaphor applied toeconomic, social, and political cracks thatdivide
regions and threaten to destabilizeCanada's integrity as a nation
-What are the 4 principal fault lines in Canada? - -Regional, Quebec, Indigenous
Minority, Immigration
-What is a regional faultline? - -Political system - dispute between provinces
-What is a quebec faultline? - -Proportion of French-speaking Canadians has
declined
-Indigenous Minority - -Canada as a settler state has stripped Indigenouspeoples
of their land and resources
-Immigration faultline - -Continuous waves of newcomers are bringing theirown
set of cultures, languages, and religions
-Core/Periphery Model - -Capitalist economics results in regionally uneven
development (Friedmann)
, -Canada's regions have how many core or peripheries? - -one core
(manufacturing ontario & quebec) and three peripheries (rapidly growing west,
slow growing atlantic canada, resource frontier territorial north)
-What are the limits of the core/periphery model? - -- Broad-brush interpretation
of spatial nature of economy
- Does not address political and societal problems
- Does not take into account dynamic nature of Canadian regions
- Potential oversimplification of economic regions
-What is continentalism? - -term used to describe Canada's close trade
relationship with the US
-What are the 3 principal types of landforms? - -Mountains, plateaus, lowlands
-Denudation - -gradual wearing down of mountains byerosion and weathering
over millions of years
-Weathering - -The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's
surface.
-Erosion - -transporting these smaller particles by means of air, iceand water to
lower locations where they are deposited
-Deposition - -When layers of eroded material pile up
-What are the 7 physiographic regions - -- Canadian Shield
- Cordillera
- Interior Plains
- Hudson Bay Lowlands
- Arctic Archipelago
- Appalachian Uplands
- Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
-What year was the most recent Quebec referendum on separation from Canada
(called the independence referendum) - -1995
Canada is best understood from a... - -Regional perspective
-What are the 6 regions - -Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, Western Canada,
British Columbia, Territorial North
-Regions are designated by... - -"Core" physical and human characteristics
-Why these 6 regions? - -Manageable number, balanced territorial size, economic
importance, political structure, statistical data, regional identity
-What distinguises each region? - -Geographic location, regional consciousness,
historical development, population size, economic strength
-What is a faultline? - -A perceived division that splits groups into two or more
subgroups based on individual differences
a geological metaphor applied toeconomic, social, and political cracks thatdivide
regions and threaten to destabilizeCanada's integrity as a nation
-What are the 4 principal fault lines in Canada? - -Regional, Quebec, Indigenous
Minority, Immigration
-What is a regional faultline? - -Political system - dispute between provinces
-What is a quebec faultline? - -Proportion of French-speaking Canadians has
declined
-Indigenous Minority - -Canada as a settler state has stripped Indigenouspeoples
of their land and resources
-Immigration faultline - -Continuous waves of newcomers are bringing theirown
set of cultures, languages, and religions
-Core/Periphery Model - -Capitalist economics results in regionally uneven
development (Friedmann)
, -Canada's regions have how many core or peripheries? - -one core
(manufacturing ontario & quebec) and three peripheries (rapidly growing west,
slow growing atlantic canada, resource frontier territorial north)
-What are the limits of the core/periphery model? - -- Broad-brush interpretation
of spatial nature of economy
- Does not address political and societal problems
- Does not take into account dynamic nature of Canadian regions
- Potential oversimplification of economic regions
-What is continentalism? - -term used to describe Canada's close trade
relationship with the US
-What are the 3 principal types of landforms? - -Mountains, plateaus, lowlands
-Denudation - -gradual wearing down of mountains byerosion and weathering
over millions of years
-Weathering - -The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's
surface.
-Erosion - -transporting these smaller particles by means of air, iceand water to
lower locations where they are deposited
-Deposition - -When layers of eroded material pile up
-What are the 7 physiographic regions - -- Canadian Shield
- Cordillera
- Interior Plains
- Hudson Bay Lowlands
- Arctic Archipelago
- Appalachian Uplands
- Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
-What year was the most recent Quebec referendum on separation from Canada
(called the independence referendum) - -1995
