Transportation Pages 371 to 389
Road Travel: the most important means of moving people
Moving Cargo by Ship: best suited for transportation of goods that are very bulky and low value (grain, ore, petroleum, lumber, cement, sand etc.)
Moving Cargo by Air: very quick form of transportation, with goods often being light in weight and size, high value, perishable, and needed quickly
Moving Cargo by Pipelines: can be used to move gases, liquids, and even some solids that have been crushed and mixed with water
Page 380 #’s 3, 5, 7, worksheet
- Governments spend more than 7 billion dollars every year on construction, maintenance, and administration of Canadian roads
- Automobiles: 13.5 million cars registered in Canada
- Allow for flexible, personal, private trips to anywhere there are roads
- Intercity Buses: travel between cities
- Intracity Buses: travel within the same city
- Rail Travel: used to be a very important mode of travel, but thanks to cars and new highways it isn’t’ rarely used
- However, commuter rails (responsible for moving workers from city outskirts into the downtown area of a city) are still very important, and still utilized
- Air Travel: the #1 method of traveling far distances, due to the speed and competitive prices
- Deregulation: refers to the act the government passes, which reduced its control over things like fares and how many airlines may fly one route
- This enabled airlines to compete with one another, which reduced the prices, and enabled more airlines to travel to various parts of the world
- Deregulation: refers to the act the government passes, which reduced its control over things like fares and how many airlines may fly one route
- Ship: not a very common occurrence in Canada, but is of vital importance where it does exist
- Vancouver islands, Newfoundland etc.
- Piggyback System: a system whereby truck trailers are transported on railway cars, devised so trucking and railway cargo transportation can work together
Moving Cargo by Ship: best suited for transportation of goods that are very bulky and low value (grain, ore, petroleum, lumber, cement, sand etc.)
Moving Cargo by Air: very quick form of transportation, with goods often being light in weight and size, high value, perishable, and needed quickly
Moving Cargo by Pipelines: can be used to move gases, liquids, and even some solids that have been crushed and mixed with water
Page 380 #’s 3, 5, 7, worksheet
Communication Pages 389 to 402
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/marshall-mcluhan-the-global-village
Communication: refers to the transfer of information between people (written language, telegraph, television, in person communication or via the internet/telephones etc.)
Emerging Communications Technologies (1999)
Communication: refers to the transfer of information between people (written language, telegraph, television, in person communication or via the internet/telephones etc.)
Emerging Communications Technologies (1999)
- Changes in the Phone System: cellular phones completely changed the game for the phone system, with a large portion of people aged 20-40 having no fixed land line
- Changes to the Internet: e-mail, video chatting, and the World Wide Web have revolutionized communication all over the world
- Changes in Television: TVs used to be analog transmission, but have long since shifted to digital transmission to make pictures and sound clearer for the observer
- Phones can send and receive emails, and can browse the internet
- Televisions can access the internet
- Local radio broadcasts can be heard on the internet half the world away