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What would you say? If you were trying to explain the Atlantic Canadian Region to a person from New Zealand, what would you tell them about the physical features or cultural features in this region.TRANSCRIPT
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Our Natural Environment
Introduction
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Atlantic Region
• Every place we live has a personality? • What are the characteristics that define
the Atlantic Region?
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What would you say?
• If you were trying to explain the Atlantic Canadian Region to a person from New Zealand, what would you tell them about the physical features or cultural features in this region.
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Do it!!
• What features of the natural environment are important?
• How do people in Atlantic Canada interact with their natural environment?
• How do the physical characteristics affect the people living there?
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Atlantic Canada as a Region• Region- is an area that shares common
features that make it different from other areas. Geographers categorize regions in 2 ways:– 1. Physical – landforms (mountains, hills),
climate, soil, natural vegetation.– 2. Cultural – political, economic, religious,
agricultural, industrial, language, human activity.
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• The most eastern region of Canada lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the heavily forested Appalachian Mountains.
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This region of low hills, plains, islands, and peninsulas includes the Atlantic Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
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• The sea has long shaped the life of the Appalachian region.
• Early Europeans built small fishing settlements along the rocky coast. From there, they fished in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
• Since the 1960’s, however, fishing has become less profitable because the region has been over fished.
• Discoveries of offshore oil and natural gas promise to revive the regions economy.
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Questions
• Answer questions 2 and 3 on page 20
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Time Zones• In 1878, Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming
proposed the system of worldwide time zones that we use today.
• He recommended that the world be divided into 24 time zones, each spaced 15 degrees of longitude apart.
• Since the earth rotates once every 24 hours and there are 360 degrees of longitude, each hour the earth rotates 1/24th of a circle or 15 degrees of longitude.
• Sir Fleming's time zones were heralded as a brilliant solution to a chaotic problem worldwide.
• What was the problem?
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• United States railroad companies began utilizing Fleming's standard time zones on November 18, 1883.
• Time Zones were originated in 1884. Today, many countries operate on variations of the time zones proposed by Sir Fleming.
• Video
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Newfoundland’s Unique Time Zone
• Why do you think Newfoundland has a unique time zone?
• Share your answer with the class.• Many people wonder why the Province of
Newfoundland has a time zone that varies by the half hour rather than the standard one-hour.
• While the system of Standard Time employs 24 meridians, and each are theoretically the centers of 24 Standard Time zones.
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• Some adjustments have been made to the time zones for the convenience of inhabitants that lie within the zones.
• Newfoundland, (but not Labrador), lies squarely in the eastern half of its time zone, exactly three and a half hours from Greenwich.
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• The Newfoundland government attempted to bring the province into conformity with the other Atlantic Provinces in 1963, but withdrew in the face of stiff public opposition.
• Other countries that operate on the half hour time difference are: Suriname, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, and Central Australia.
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Questions
• Questions 2-5 on page 23