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Overview of the 5 Themes
Location and Place
Movement and Region
Human Environment Interaction

Reflections
Last spike
Roger’s Pass
Cave and Basin
Lake Minnewanka
Columbia Icefield
Lake Louise
Golden Skybridge
Revelstoke Railway Museum

Videos
Investigative Video
Silent Video
Tik Tok video
About the author/ Interests Video

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Table of Contents

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Location

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Place

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There are two kinds of location when talking about geography. Absolute location (see above), and relative (below). Absolute location is described with coordinates or an address. Relative location is when we talk about location in relation to something else like landmarks, time or distance.

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Place is how the natural landscape is unique. We can identify place through looking at the flora and fauna (plants and animals), resources (like coal or wheat), landforms (mountains) and climate (rainy, sunny). There are also cultural characteristics like traditions, architecture, land use and politics. The photo above is an example.

Movement

Region

There are three types of regions: formal, functional and vernacular. Formal regions are regions made by the government or are administrative boundaries like cities and borders. Functional regions serve a purpose, like the catchment map below. Vernacular are regions are made up by similar characteristics, like Chinatown, old Montreal and the cove.

Movement is also an important theme. There are 3 main kinds of movement: the movement of people, (planes, cars, and trains), the movement of products, ( imported goods, online shopping and freighters) and the movement of ideas, (mail and books). These three things often all happen at the same time, like a person coming with news (people and ideas).

Human Environment Interaction

This theme is about how humans and geography interact with each other. This one also happens in three main ways. We adapt to the geography like when we choose to put roads in specific places, because of where mountains and landforms are located. We modify it when we built dams or when we build bridges to cross water. We also depend on it like how people farm in the prairies because of the flat land which supports them.

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The theme I noticed was location. This is apparent in my picture because it literally says BC on the sign. I also noticed the landmarks and flora in the background.This represents another theme, place. These factors make my image impactful.

The geography aspect I decided to focus on at this stop was location. Movement was the obvious one but I wanted to dig deeper for my answers especially since movement is a big one because of the significance of the CPR. My photo has British Columbia on the sign which tells you the location. You can also see the iconic BC landscape in the back which shows relative location.

Tourism. The last spike was there for a reason. Without the Rockies it wouldn’t have been there at all, the last spike may have been driven in a different provence. The railway is why we are even visiting here. The last spike is there for tourists which is part of the economy. The towns are so small around here that they would not survive without the history they are involved in, as the tourists keep them in business. Therefore, without the Rockies there wouldn’t have been a last spike and there wouldn’t have been as many learning opportunities here for everyone to enjoy and a lot less people would live here.

This really reminded me of a book we read in grade 5. It was my first learning opportunity about the CPR and it really stuck with me. I’m finding all the information reminds me of what we learned then and its a cool connection because its been 4 years since I learned all that! I think the photo represents how important it is that the last spike happened HERE and not somewhere else because otherwise there would be nothing here.