Chapter 1 & 2

• Population density - the number of people per square kilometer
• Isodemographic - A map in which the country's size is depicted as larger or smaller depending on its population
• towns that have been completely abandoned are called ghost towns
• a dispersed population pattern is usually found in rural areas and it's spread evenly
• The patterns of roads and lots found in the southern Prairies and southern Ontario are the product of the survey system
• the solid outer layer of the earth is called the lithosphere
• Alfred Wegner proposed the theory of Continental Drift
• The supercontinent of the earth 300 million years ago was called Pangaea
• Most tectonic plates are made up of oceans and a layer of hot rock
• The reason crustal plates move is due to what process: convection currents in the mantle
• The type of rock in which fossils are found: sedimentary
• The last period of glaciation in Canada ended about: 15 000 years ago
• linear settlement pattern - a population that is settled along a line
• Concentrated settlement pattern - a population that lives close together
• extrusive rock - any rock derived from magma that was poured out at earth's surface
• Continuous Ecumene - the part of the country where there are continuous permanent settlement
• discontinuous Ecumene - the part of the country where there are significant patches of settlement
• sedimentary rocks - made when sand, gravel, and dirt are pressed together over time
• intrusive rock - igneous rock that form when magma cools under earth's surface
• metamorphic rock - made from other rocks
• erosion - moving of broken-up pieces of rock
• deposition - a building up of eroded materials in a new locations