Change

Glossary of Terms

1. Adapt
   Change to fit different conditions, situations and circumstances.
   
   
2. Agent of change
   Something that causes or leads to change. Change To transform something or cause it to be different.
   
   
3. Industrialization
   Depending upon machines, technology and the specialization of labour to produce goods.
   
   
4. Quantitative Change
   Change that is measurable, such as a person's age and size.
   
   
5. Qualitative Change
   Change in quality, such as personal change gained through education and interactions with others, and change in likes, dislikes, interests and relations with others.
   
   
6. Revolution
   A sudden or momentous change in a situation, such as a takeover of government.
   
   
7. Technology
   All tools used and invented by people, and the skills to use those tools.
   
   
8. Feudalism
   Feudalism was a system of governing where an upper class (nobility) has certain well-defined responsibilities to the king in return for the use of land (fiefs) exploited with the labor of a peasantry (serfs).
   
   
9. Heriditary
   passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations to the next of kin
   
   
10. Class System
    distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures
    

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Glossary of Terms

1. Acculturation
   A process of intercultural borrowing resulting in new and blended patterns.
   
2. Artistic Patterns
   The ways in which a culture expresses its creativity. Art includes music, drama, dance and literature, as well as the visual arts such as painting, drawing and sculpture.
   
3. Assimilation
   The process of making the minority culture resemble the dominant culture.
   
4. Belief
   An idea that describes the reason things are the way they are in the world. Opinions and viewpoints are based on beliefs.
   
5. Culture
   A learned way of living that is shared by a group of people. The way of life of a group of people.
   
6. Cultural Patterns
   A classification system that social scientists use to study cultures.
   
7. Democracy Government
   ruled by the majority of the people through voting and elected representatives.
   
8. Discrimination
   An unfair difference in the treatment and rights of people or ideas.
   
9. Diversity
   The differences in ideas, people and ways of living.
   
10. Economic Patterns
    The way that a cultural group organizes to meet its needs and wants.
    
11. Educational Patterns
    The ways in which a cultural group organizes the teaching of children. These include both formal and informal instruction and learning.
    
12. Ethnocentrism
    The attitude that one culture is best and that all other cultures should be compared with it.
    
13. Extended Family
    A family that includes people of several generations, often living as one unit.
    
14. Industrial Society
    A culture that depends on machines, technology and the specialization of labour to produce goods.
    
15. Kinship Patterns
    The ways in which a cultural group organizes the roles and duties of the family members.
    
16. Multicultural
    The word means "of many cultures". Canada is a blend of many cultures, and is called a multicultural nation.
    
17. Non-industrial Society
    A culture in which there is little industrial production of goods, and most work is done manually.
    
18. Norms Rules
    that describe the expected behaviour of people.
    
19. Nuclear Family
    A two-generation family of parents and their children.
    
20. Political Patterns
    The ways in which cultural groups make decisions, settle conflicts and govern themselves.
    
21. Prejudice
    An adverse opinion or judgement formed beforehand or without fair examination of the facts.
    
22. Recreation Play Patterns
    The ways in which cultures interact for entertainment, learning and social reasons, and the ways that they use their leisure time.
    
23. Religious Patterns
    The ways in which a culture organizes and practises a system of beliefs and worship based on faith and understanding of the forces that create power and order in the world.
    
24. Rituals
    Special rites and ceremonies based on religious beliefs, often marked by special times for individuals or groups.
    
25. Stereotype
    A preconceived, standardized and oversimplified impression.
    
26. Tradition
    Knowledge and customs passed on from one generation to the next.
    

    
    
    
    

    Culture Research

    
    Instructions: You are to choose a culture and research the following topics about that culture. You need to have 5 jot notes for each topic. You will present your information in 2 ways
    1)neatly written and organized jot notes
    2)an oral report for the class
    NOTE - You will be given 2 one hour periods to do your research and jot notes
    Do NOT copy and paste your jot notes into a word document. You must make them your own words
    
    TOPICS
    Recreation Play Patterns
    The ways in which cultures interact for entertainment, learning and social reasons, and the ways that they use their leisure time.
    Religious Patterns
    The ways in which a culture organizes and practises a system of beliefs and worship based on faith and understanding of the forces that create power and order in the world.
    Political Patterns
    The ways in which cultural groups make decisions, settle conflicts and govern themselves.
    Kinship Patterns
    The ways in which a cultural group organizes the roles and duties of the family members.
    Educational Patterns
    The ways in which a cultural group organizes the teaching of children. These include both formal and informal instruction and learning.
    Artistic Patterns
    The ways in which a culture expresses its creativity. Art includes music, drama, dance and literature, as well as the visual arts such as painting, drawing and sculpture.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    Location

    
    

    Glossary of Terms

    1. Absolute
       Location Mathematically precise points that are unchanging and essential in naming specific locations on the Earth's surface—latitude and longitude.
    2. Cartography
       The science and art of map making.
    3. Climate
       The usual weather conditions of a place or region, observed over a period of several years.
    4. Geography
       The study of the Earth and its landforms, climate, resources, people and so on. The basis of the word is Greek: "geo" meaning the world and "graphel" meaning to write.
    5. Grid System
       An arbitrary mathematical system, such as latitude and longitude, that identifies the absolute position of a location.
    6. Human-Environmental Interaction
       How people and the environment affect and influence each other.
    7. Latitude
       Distance in degrees north or south of the equator.
    8. Location
       The absolute positions of people and places on the Earth's surface.
    9. Longitude
       Distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
    10. Maps
        Drawings of part or all of the Earth's surfaces that efficiently portray and communicate spatial data. There are many types of maps, providing a variety of data (e.g., physical, political, population distribution).
    11. Movement
        The global patterns of movement of people, products and information.
    12. Place
        Refers to the human, physical and environmental characteristics of a place that distinguish it from any other places.
    13. Pacific Rim
        Lands bordering on, or contained in, the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
    14. Region
        An area that has been subdivided in some way to interpret the Earth's complexity (e.g., common language, political borders, landforms, land use, climate).
    15. Relative Location
        The location of a site in relationship to other sites. Relative locations often change due to changes in land use, movement of people and animals or other environmental change.
    16. Scale Size
        of a map compared to the actual size of the area of the location it represents.
        

        Assignments

        
        
        1. Unit Project
           Over the unit you must gather 5 world current events clippings. You must label the location of these happening on the map you print out. You also need to mark the coordinates of each current event location. All current events must occur outside of Canada.
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        Maps Needed for this Unit

        
        
        The following are maps online that can be used to complete the assignments about Canada
        Labeling Canada assignment
        This map shows Canada's elevations (relief Map)
        Land cover map
        
        

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        Assignment #1 Needs vs Wants
        Assignment #2 Renewable vs Non-Renewable
        Assignment #3 Exports vs Imports
        Map of Canada for question #9 assignment 3
        Assignment #4 Distibution of resources
        Assignment #5 Resources in Sask Map
        Assignment #6 Settlers
        Assignment #7
        Assignment #8
        Assignment #9 Canadian Wheat Board
        

        Vocabualary

        1. Consensus
           Agreement of everyone in the group.
        2. Cooperative
           An organization in which members work together to achieve a goal.
        3. Conservation
           Protecting resources from being destroyed or used up.
        4. Contaminated
           Made poisonous or impure.
        5. Cultivation
           Preparing land to use for planting and growing specific crops.
        6. Degradation
           A decline in the quality of the soil due to erosion.
        7. Democracy
           A system in which people have free elections to choose those who will represent them in governing.
        8. Dependency
           The reliance of humans on their resources to meet needs and wants.
        9. Distribution
           The way something is divided up among people or countries.
        10. Erosion
            Wearing away of soil gradually, usually by wind or water.
        11. Fallow
            Cultivated land not planted in crop.
        12. Non-renewable Resources
            Those that cannot be replaced after they are used. Pool
            A grouping of resources for the common advantage of the participants (e.g., Wheat Pool).
        13. Renewable Resources
            Those that reproduce biologically, and that may be maintained or even increased if used responsibly.
        14. Recycle
            To clean and purify something so it can be used again.
        15. Resource
            Any substance that can meet a need or a want.
        16. Resource
            Management Using resources in ways that preserve and conserve them.
        17. Revenues
            Yield or income gained from production and/or sale.
        18. Scarcity
            A shortage or insufficient supply of something (e.g., resources).
        19. Soil Zones
            Regional divisions based on soil types.
        
        

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        Citizenship

        Glossary of Terms
        
        
        1. Citizen
           A person who lives in a given place, such as Saskatchewan or Canada, and has both a formal and informal relationship with other people in that place.
        2. Citizenship
           The exercising of rights, privileges and responsibilities as a member of a particular society.
        3. Consensus
           When everyone agrees to accept a decision.
        4. Constitution
           The body of laws that set out the political and legal foundation of a nation.
        5. Democracy
           A form of government that is elected and controlled by the people who live under it.
        6. Election
           The procedure when eligible Canadian citizens go to the polls to vote for the person they believe should represent them in the government.
        7. Executive
           The body of government that suggests new laws to the legislature, and puts into effect the laws passed by the legislature.
        8. Government
           A group of people who make decisions and laws on behalf of the citizens and protect the rights of those citizens.
        9. Human Rights
           The rights that protect Canadian citizens from being discriminated against by other Canadians.
        10. Immigrant
            A person who comes to a new country to live and make it home.
        11. Legislative
            The body of elected provincial representatives having the power to make laws at the provincial level.
        12. Municipal
            Local, community level of government in urban or rural areas.
        13. Parliament
            A legislative law-making assembly of representatives. In Canada, Parliament includes the House of Commons (elected) and the Senate (appointed).
        14. Politics
            The art and science of government.
        15. Power
            The authority and ability to do a job or make a decision.
        16. Representative
            A form of government in which citizens vote to elect people to represent them; that is, Democracy speak and act on their behalf.
        17. Responsibilities
            Something that a person is expected to do.
        18. Rights
            A fair and just claim to something, often guaranteed by law.
        
        

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        Identity

        Glossary of Terms

        1. Acculturation
           Adapting to a different culture.
        2. Assimilation
           The process whereby a minority group adopts the customs and attitudes of the majority.
        3. Belief
           Acceptance of an idea.
        4. Culture
           A learned pattern of behaviours, knowledge, beliefs, values, laws and language that is shared among a group of people, and passed on to members through socialization.
        5. Ethnocentrism
           The belief that one culture is superior to other cultures, and that all other cultures should be compared with it.
        6. Laws
           The rules that are enforced by the governing body of a culture or society.
        7. Mores
           Strongly held norms that reflect the values and morals of a culture.
        8. Multiculturalism
           A policy supporting the existence of many distinct cultural groups in one society.
        9. Norms
           The accepted ways of behaving and acting towards others.
        10. Self
            A person's own distinct individuality and character.
        11. Socialization
            The interactive process of shaping an individual and his or her environment.