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B. People and Environments · Living and Working in Ontario

Living and Working in Ontario: Unit Review

B1 B1.1 B1.2 B2 B2.1 B2.2 B2.3 B2.4 B2.5 B2.6 B3 B3.7About 40 minutes
Learning goals
  • I can describe Ontario's location, landform regions, natural resources and land use.
  • I can explain how the natural environment affects land use, jobs and communities in Ontario, including First Nations communities.
  • I can explain what municipal governments do.
  • I can use maps and the inquiry process to investigate land use and the environment.

Words to know

landform region
A large area where the land is mostly alike.
land use
What people do with a piece of land.
natural resource
Something from nature that people use.
municipality
A city, town, township or village with its own local government.
treaty
A formal agreement between First Nations and the Crown about sharing the land.
scale
The part of a map that shows how map distance matches real distance.

Let's review!

In this unit you explored Ontario: where it is, its three landform regions, how people use the land, its municipalities and their services, its natural resources and jobs, First Nations communities today, how land use affects the environment, and how to investigate like a geographer.

This review has questions from every lesson. Try each one, then press Show answer. If a part feels tricky, go back to that lesson.

RegionResourceJobsCanadian Shieldnickel and coppermining (Sudbury)Great Lakes–St. LawrenceLowlandsfertile soilfruit farms (Niagara)Lake Superiora big harbourport jobs (Thunder Bay)
Big idea of the unit: the land and its resources shape the jobs people do.
NESWNESESWNWWindsor to Ottawa:mostly east,a little north,so north-east (NE)
A compass rose with the four main directions and the four in-between directions. North is usually at the top of a map.

Ontario on the Map

1

Which province is west of Ontario, and which is east?

2

What is the capital of Ontario? What is the capital of Canada?

3

Which Great Lake does not touch Ontario?

Map Skills: Grids, Scale and Thematic Maps

1

In the grid reference C4, which comes first: the column or the row?

2

A scale says 1 cm = 10 km. Two towns are 7 cm apart. How far apart are they really?

3

What does a thematic map called Farms of Southern Ontario show?

Ontario's Three Landform Regions

1

Name Ontario's three landform regions from north to south.

2

Which region is rocky with many lakes, forests and minerals?

3

Why do most people in Ontario live in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands?

How We Use the Land

1

What type of land use is a hospital? A factory? A beach park?

2

Why does the Niagara region have many fruit farms?

3

What is a conservation area?

Municipalities and Local Government Services

1

Name three services a municipality provides.

2

Who leads a municipal council, and how are they chosen?

3

Is a farming township with homes far apart urban or rural?

Ontario's Natural Resources

1

Is nickel renewable or non-renewable? What about trees?

2

What natural resource is mined under Lake Huron at Goderich?

3

What is hydroelectricity?

Jobs and the Land: Working in Ontario

1

Sort these jobs: farmer, nurse, factory worker.

2

Why are there many mining jobs in Sudbury?

3

Why does Muskoka have many tourism jobs?

First Nations Communities in Ontario Today

1

Name two First Nations peoples in Ontario.

2

What is the government of a First Nation usually called?

3

How does living in the Hudson Bay Lowlands affect travel to Attawapiskat?

4

Give one way people in First Nations communities today stay connected to the land.

Land Use and the Environment

1

Why can paving a wetland cause flooding?

2

Is a farm field covered by houses a short-term or long-term change?

3

Name one action that helped the land around Sudbury heal.

Be a Geographer: Investigating Land Use in Ontario

1

List the six steps of the inquiry process.

2

Turn this into an inquiry question: "Are there farms near Ottawa?"

3

A tally shows: parks 3, homes 11, stores 5. Write a conclusion.

Just for fun

Fun fact: Ontario has more than 250,000 lakes. If you visited one new lake every single day, it would take you more than 680 years to see them all!

How to use this review

  • Try every question before you look at the answer.
  • Put a ✔ beside each section you got right, and a ★ beside any section that was tricky.
  • Go back to the lessons with a ★ and do the More practice questions there.
  • Then try the quiz below. Read each choice carefully before you pick.
Check your understanding

Quiz

1.

Which body of water is north of Ontario?

2.

A map scale says 1 cm = 10 km. Two places are 4 cm apart. How far apart are they?

3.

Which landform region is the biggest in Ontario?

4.

What type of land use is a shopping mall?

5.

Which service does a municipal government provide?

6.

Which natural resource is non-renewable?

7.

Why are there many farms in the Niagara region?

8.

Who leads a First Nation government?

9.

What helps a wetland reduce flooding?

10.

What is the first step of an inquiry?

For parents and teachers

Use mistakes to choose what to revisit. Each review section matches one lesson.

  • Mixes up neighbours, capitals or which Great Lakes touch Ontario: revisit Ontario on the Map and redo the neighbour map.
  • Reverses grid references, struggles with scale or thematic maps: revisit Map Skills: Grids, Scale and Thematic Maps and make a grid map of a room.
  • Confuses the three landform regions or cannot link land to how people live: revisit Ontario's Three Landform Regions and build the tray model.
  • Mixes up types of land use (commercial vs. industrial, institutional): revisit How We Use the Land and do a land use walk.
  • Unsure what municipalities do or mixes up levels of government: revisit Municipalities and Local Government Services and do the service hunt.
  • Confuses renewable and non-renewable, or cannot trace a resource to a product: revisit Ontario's Natural Resources.
  • Cannot sort jobs or connect jobs to the land in a region: revisit Jobs and the Land: Working in Ontario and interview a family member.
  • Uses stereotypes or thinks First Nations live only in the past, or confuses a First Nation with a municipality: revisit First Nations Communities in Ontario Today.
  • Sees land use as all good or all bad, or mixes up short-term and long-term effects: revisit Land Use and the Environment and do the sponge test.
  • Asks yes/no questions or draws conclusions without evidence: revisit Be a Geographer: Investigating Land Use in Ontario.

A few mistakes are normal. Praise careful map reading, good questions and respectful language as much as correct answers.