Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Review answers

Social Studies 10 – Final Exam Review Answers

Geography

1) Common points of elevation at equal intervals.

1) Representative/Statement/Line

2) Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, and Antarctic Circle.

3) Prime Meridian

4) Weather – conditions of current atmosphere

5) Climate-Average/Long Term weather patterns in the atmosphere

6) P-Prevailing Winds, S-Slope, A-Altitude, L-Latitude, M-Mountain Barriers, O-Ocean Currents, and N-Nearness to Water

7) Place, Location, Movement, Region, and Human and Environmental Interactions

8) BLAH – B-Biosphere L-Lithosphere A-Atmosphere H-Hydrosphere

9) The Prairies

10) New Brunswick – Fredericton – Nunavut-Iqaluit

Newfoundland-St. John’s

11) West: Pacific North: Arctic East: Atlantic

12) Superior, Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario

13) BC-Fraser, Thompson, Mackenzie, Columbia

Alb-South Saskatchewan, Peace, Athabasca, Slave

History

15 A) The elected assembly had no real power or connection to the councils and the governor (WAY COLONY GOVERNED)

b) A SMALL GROUP HAD THE BEST JOBS AND MOST PRIVILEGES (FAMILY COMPACT IN UPPER CANADA AND CHATEAU CLIQUE IN LOWER CANADA

C) Clergy and Crown Reserves (in UC)

D) French Catholic majority being ruled by and English Protestant minority

E) Transportation problems: majority wanted better roads, but Family Compact to spend money on canals which benefited them and UC

F. French felt their culture and farming economy threatened by increasing numbers of English in the Colony

16) Government is responsible to the people (elected assembly) – Governor – legislative and executive assembly (rich upper class-Chateau clique or Family Compact)

17. Reformers – wanted change and responsible government and Conservatives-wanted things to stay the same – power to a few rich Upper Class men.

18) Lord Elgin

19) Tories

20) Adult, male, landowners

21) Lord Durham

22) A) join UC and Lower Canada into one province

B) responsible government

C) Anglican church should not have special privileges

D) Governor should listen to elected assembly

E) Colonies should manage their day-to-day affairs

F) British North American – should unite

G. French in lower Canada should be assimilated (become English)

23) British North America Act (BNA ACT) 1867

24) July 1st, 1867

25) Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick

26) A) Fenian Raids

B) US expansionism (Manifest Destiny)

C) Political Deadlock in the Canadas (Canada West and Canada East had some number of seats in the Assembly and could cancel out each others wishes so that nothing ever got done

D) Railways (for trade and Defence)

E) Changing British Attitudes (Little Englanders – a burden (economic))

F) Trade troubles (Britain cancelled BNA’s special free trade agreement in 1865)

27. To consider a maritime union (joining the Atlantic or maritime colonies)

28) F

29) Immigration, trade, Aboriginal affairs, Foreign Affairs, defence, taxation, fisheries, customs, criminal law, and banks

30) Education, roads, forests, mines, civil law, taxation and property rights

31) England and France

32) Lord Selkirk

33) A union or joining of two parties

34) b, c, d, a

35.) double check

36) European settlers, Metis, French Fur trades and Aboriginal groups

37) To own their own land, to maintain their way of life, bison herds

38) It divided them even further, hate become stronger.

39) a. provincial status for Manitoba b. got recognition in the federal government 4 members in Parliament and 2 Senators c. French and English are equal in government and schools d. equal status for Roman Catholic church e. land

40) Jury was mostly English Protestants B) Trial was moved from Manitoba to Regina to ensure no Metis or French were on a jury B) Charged with the English crime treason c) the jury recommended mercy, but the judge disregarded that and ordered Riel be hanged.

41) July 20th, 1871

42) responsible government b. CPR c. million dollar debt be paid off by federal government

43) Instead of gaining a wagon road they received the CPR

44) Taxing gold miners

45) Cariboo Wagon Road

46) Indian Act 1876-To get rid of aboriginal culture

Assimilation

A) to control aboriginals and way of life

B) traditional ceremonies were banned (Potlatch)

c. residential schools

d. place aboriginals on reserves (less land) –eliminated any movement by aboriginal groups

47) A deal between two parties-Aboriginals and Fed. Government-land!

48) 1) drive out the whiskey traders 2) keep peace 3) prevent crime 4) stop any aggression from the south control the Northwest

49) a) protective tariffs b) western settlement c) CPR

50) Canadian Pacific Railway

51) Chinese

52) Wilfred Laurier

53) Clifford Sifton

54) head tax

55) Naval Issue of 1910 and Boer War 1899

56) Alaska Boundary

57) Allow all immigrants to come in

58) mud and sod

59) To protect and negotiate workers wages and working conditions

60) Komagata Maru

61) right to vote and prohibition

62) poet-Pauline Johnson; writer-Montgomery; artist-Emily Carr

63) F-

64) forest; fish; solar; water renewable

Non-fossil fuels and minerals

65) primary (getting resource); secondary (added value-manufacturing); tertiary (service sector)

66) primary

67) a. resource runs out then the industry dies b) unemployment c) changing market prices

68) resources for tomorrow’s generation

69) to protect agricultural land

70) water reacts with acid and makes sulphuric acid kills life

71) overfishing, pollution, clear-cutting (erosion), diseases and parasites from farms, open-pit mining

72) selective logging

73) air pollution (cars and factories), water pollution (sewage and garbage), urbanization cutting trees putting pressure on land)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Levels of the Economy in BC

Primary: Copper Mountain Mining Corporation ("CMMC")
Own 75% of a copper mining project that is located 15km south of the town of Princeton, in southern BC. This compant produces 105 million pounds of copper per year. CMMC is part of the primary economy because it extracts the raw resources that are used to produce goods.

Secondary: Chevron Burnaby Refinery
It is located on the scenic shores of spectacular Burrard Inlet near Vancouver. Raw products arrive at the refinery, and with using modern refinery technology, are transformed into 50,000 to 55,000 barrels of motor gasolines, diesel and jet fuels, asphalts, heating fuels, heavy fuel oils, butanes and propane every day. This refinery is part of the secondary economy because it modifies the raw materials for more diverse purposes.

Tertiary/ Quaternary: Peoples Jewellers
Located in Metropolis at Metrotown (4800 Kingsway 282) in Burnaby. They produce their own designs of jewellery, using refined metals. They are considered a tertiary sector because they provide a complicated end product and service.

Gold Seal

Company – Gold Seal – Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary, Quaternary

Location – based in Vancouver, offices and faculties spanning the west coast of North America

What does it do? – Catches fish, processes them, then cans and sells them

The company fishes, processes the fishes, then cans them and sells them. These are the three(four) levels of economy.

By: Manbir, Jaron, Alex

Levels of Economy in BC

Resource Extraction:
Primary:
Arlan Industries logs trees and sends them to secondary business. This industry has an office in Vancouver BC. This company is in the Primary Economy because it extracts the resource of trees.

Secondary:
Dick’s Lumber sells manufactured lumber in the form of plywood engineering wood and so on. Dicks Lumber has many different locations in the lower mainland. This company is in the secondary economy because they change the trees into wood that can be used for houses and fense etc.

Tertiary:
Turnco Woods Products sells dressers, coloumns, cabinents and all types of furnitures. They are located in Vancouver BC. They are a in the Tertiary economy because they make complex products out of lumber.

By: Arun/Shiv

B.C Levels of Economy

Company: Western Coal
Where: Vancouver, BC
Task: mining and extracting coal. It also uses growth strategies to meet market demands.
Level of economy: Primary


Company: Petro Canada Products
where:Port Moody, BC
Task: specialty fluids for rock drills and metal working. Also provides fluids, oils, and lubricants.
Level of economy: Secondary


Company: De Goutiere Jewelers
where: Victiruam BC
Task: SElling rare jewels and unusual gemstones found on the west coast. Member of the Canadain Gernmological Association.
level of economy: tertiary

hadia and Ramneet

3 levels..

Primary: Interpac Forest Products ltd.
- up since 1986
- in joint ventures with First Nations, each venture responsible for managing, harvesting and reforesting the forest land
Located: 9701 201 st. Langley BC
It is a logging comopany that specializes in sorting, dumping, and bundling trees.
It is a primary level because it is just resource extraction. It just cuts down trees.

Secondary: Chevron Burnaby Refinery
- in canada since 1953
-50,000 to 55,000 barrels a day
- committed to producing finest petroleum
- they feul commercial jets, longhaul trucks, forestry and mining operations, ferries, tugboats, cars and buses.
Located: 355 N. Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby BC
Turns crude and synthetic oil into motor gases like diesel, jet feul, asphault, heating feul and propane.
It is a secondary level because they are taking the primary resource and alterating it.

Tertiary: Fabric Land
- Largest retail fabric store in Canada
- 100% Canadian
- 32 year in western Canada
Located: 1678 SE Marine Drive Vanouver, BC
It sells differnt fabrics. (colours and material)
It is tertiary because it sells fabric, which comes from threads and wools, that come from animal fur. Fabric Land just sells the fabric, and fabric doesn't just come from the sky.


Done perfectly by ALISON, and Jordyn.

GOMES & PARTY PARHAR

BLUEBERRY JUNCTION - (PRIMARY)
  • Blueberry Junction is a family owned and operated blueberry farm that uses only organically approved materials on their blueberries
  • It is located in Abbotsford, BC
  • The company harvests the blueberries
  • It is part of the primary economy because they are the ones that harvest the blueberries and make them edible.

GOLDWOOD INDUSTRIES - (SECONDARY)

  • Goldwood Industries is a locally owned and operated saw mill
  • It is located in Richmond B.C.
  • The company sells lumber
  • It is part of the secondary economy because they don't directly go out to get the lumber by themselves and then they sell the wood for profits.

THE JOINT WOODWORKING STUDIO - (TERTIARY)

  • The Joint woodworking studio is a local crafsman shop
  • It is located 1311 East 4th Avenue at Clarke Dr.
  • Produces hand made furniture
  • It is part of this level of economy because they use wood that has already been modified by distrubiters.