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| In BC what is the main source of electrical power generation |
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| Trees, water, geothermal, wind, soil, ground water, coniferous forests, sun, biomass are all renewable or non-renewable energy sources. |
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| Gas, coal, uranium, natural gas farmed fish, and petroleum are all renewable or non-renewable energy sources. |
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| A type of development in which resource use not only meets the needs of the current population but that of future generations as well |
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| Just 30 minutes of this energy source could supply the entire world with enough energy for one full year. |
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| A disadvantage of this energy source is the it is not concentrated and harnessing and storing it in large amounts is difficult and very expensive. |
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| A form of renewable energy which is inexpensive and accounts for about 60% of electrical production in Canada. |
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| A form of renewable energy in which organic matter is trapped on the floor of a reservoir where vegetation rots in an environment void of light and oxygen resulting in the release of methane gas. |
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| A form of renewable energy derived from once-living, plant, or animal matter. |
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| A renewable energy source that can reduce the amount of garbage we have to deal with. |
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| A nonrenewable energy source which is cleaner burning than other fossil fuels which emits mainly carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. |
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| The human activity that accounts for 75% of all freshwater used on Earth. |
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| The world’s largest reservoir of freshwater. |
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| A geographic theme that describes the natural, physical and human characteristics that make an unique area, |
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| One of the 5 themes of geography that may be relative or absolute, giving you the approximate or exact position of a place. |
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| One of the five themes of geography that identifies a specific type of area allowing geographers to better understand how humans have adapted to living in varied conditions around the world. |
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| One of the 5 themes of geography that involves the motion of people, animals, goods, wind, currents, tides, tectonic plates, landslides, lava, glaciers around the planet/ |
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| The Cariboo or the Kootenays are terms used to describe specific geographic: |
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| A map showing airline routes for Central Mountain Air would show the geographic theme of: |
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| human/environmental interaction |
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| One of the five themes of geography that describes how people alter their environment is: |
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| human/environmental interaction |
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| Examples of this geographic theme include people building shelters, people building dikes to control the flood waters of a river, or when farmers grow crops using irrigations systems are all examples of this geographic theme. |
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| The study and practice of making maps. |
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| The scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth. |
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| is an individual who uses scientific principles to explain, understand, observe or forecast the earth's atmospheric phenomena and/or how the atmosphere affects the earth and life on the planet. |
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| A scientist who studies earthquakes and their phenomena. |
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| A scientist who studies weather patterns and the processes that cause them. |
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| The practice that best illustrates how the BC forest industry promotes the sustainability of its forests. |
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| In a municipal water supply and sewage treatment the area which contains the greatest concentration of contaminated water. |
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| The safest, most efficient, and economical method of large-scale tree harvesting in BC |
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| The forecasting of weather requires an understanding of the interactions between which two spheres |
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| The two spheres that are associated with tsunamis, |
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| The water cycle occurs mainly in this sphere which is in the lowest layer of the atmosphere. |
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| Name the two gases that are primarily responsible for climate change. |
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| The percentage of solar radiation that is reflected back into space. |
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| The surface that has the greatest albedo. |
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| Calm global winds located at the equator. |
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| Prevailing winds that blow from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. |
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| The dry, cold prevailing winds originating in the east that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards low-pressure areas. |
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| Steady winds found in the tropics which blow from subtropical highs to equatorial low pressure areas. |
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| The sphere which contains the greatest amount of atmospheric ozone. |
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| The increase in this gas is the major cause of Antarctica’s shrinking ice sheet. |
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| The layer of the atmosphere in which clouds primarily found. |
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| The reduction in the ozone will increase or decrease skin cancers and eye damage. |
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| sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide |
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| Changes in the pH balance of the soils and water are attributed to what two type of pollutants that are emitted from factories, planes and automobiles. |
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| The gas that is primarily responsible for climate change. |
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| The layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs. |
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| The type of air pressure at the top a mountain. (high or low) |
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| Where would you experience the smallest temperature range in the northern hemisphere where the ocean lies beside a mountain range: choices: ocean level, windward side of the mountain, top of the mountain, leeward side of the mountain |
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| The climate control factor that is the biggest contributor for home heating costs in different places in Canada. |
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| Clouds associated with thunderstorms, lightening and tornadoes. |
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| Name the prevailing winds that influences coastal BC. |
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| An area in Canada with the lowest annual precipitation. |
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| Rock that was changed by great heat and pressure from its original state. |
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| Rock type that is slowly pressurized and layered. |
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| Pressure forcing rock surfaces to be pushed together and is responsible for mountain formation. |
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| Shale and sandstone are both examples of this rock type. |
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| Plates that come together. |
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| A type of development that uses resources to meet the needs of both the current and future generations. |
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| The Atlantic Ocean and African Rift Valley (Turkey, Dead Sea, Red Sea) are examples of area where the plates are: |
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| The Himalayan Mountains, Rocky Mountains, and the Coast Range Mountains are examples of plates: |
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| The process that created the Great East African Rift. |
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| The slow downhill movement of loose rock and soil, which causes fences, trees, etc. to lean down slope. |
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| A downfold in rock layers which have been folded by compression. |
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| An upfold in rock layers folded by compression. |
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| A stratified ridge of glacial snake-like deposits left behind by glacial melt water. |
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| An inner bank along a meandering river also known as a slip-off slope where gravel, sand and silt deposits creating a gradual slope and shallow water close to the shoreline. |
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| In a meandering river where severe undercutting creates a steep slope on this side of the river. |
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| Most prominent power source used in Iceland. |
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| A sharp ridge in an alpine glacier. |
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| A hillside hollow created by glacial plucking and abrasion. |
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| A river in this stage cuts a deep V-shaped valley, dominated by erosion. |
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| Features commonly seen in these rivers include rapids, waterfalls and various sizes of boulders along the river bed. |
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| A river at this stage of development will continue with vertical erosion but downstream lateral erosion of the banks is evident as meanders and a flood plain start to take shape. |
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| A river at this stage of development will have a widened flood plain, extensive meandering and oxbow lakes are created. |
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| The most common drainage pattern that resembles the veins of a leaf. |
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| a drainage pattern that is established in areas where folding and titling of rock layers may confine rivers to parallel valleys that meet a larger streams at right angles. |
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| A drainage pattern that occurs on a cone-shaped mountain such as a volcano. |
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| Areas along a meandering river that is flooded when the river overflows its banks. |
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| A lateral river curve in lowland regions. |
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| A lake which formed when a river straightens by cutting through a meander. |
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| A depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. |
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| A rock layer that can store a substantial amount of water. |
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| Debris carried along and deposited at the side of a glacier as it melts. |
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| Strands of debris that appear as dark lines in the middle of the main valley glacier. |
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| Debris that is deposited at the snout of the glacier from the action of the glacial receding. |
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| Mounds of debris left at the farthest advance of a glacier. |
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| An irregular blanket of till deposited under a glacier. |
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| Made up of harder rock than the rest of the shoreline these features jut out into the ocean as they are more resistant to the erosional action of waves. |
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| Coastal feature that consist of a pillar of rock that formed when an arch collapsed. |
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| The zigzag movement of sand along the beach resulting from sand being driven up the beach by swash and then transported along the beach horizontally. |
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| Landforms that are the result of longshore drift. |
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| the process in which some material are dissolved by sea water |
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| The wearing away of the banks by the weight and force of the moving water. |
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