Geography of Toronto Midterm
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the GTA has ___ cities and ___ Regions - answer 1 city of toronto, 4
regions of Halton, Peel, York and Durham
Where is the city of toronto located - answer the centre of Alger
metropolitan area called the GTA also known the Toronto census
metropolitan areas (CMA)
Districts of Toronto - answer Etobicoke, North York, York, Old
Toronto, Scarborough, East York
Where was the city of toronto built into? - answer a forest
What was the reason for building the CN Tower? - answer
telecommunications and because Toronto is flat with no elevations
What was Torontos original name - answer Lac de Taranteu aka Lake
of Toronto in French
The name and meaning of Toronto in Mohawk terms - answer
Tkaronto and Taraonto used to describe an area where trees grow in
shallow water
What is toronto the hub of - answer the nation's commercial,
financial, industrial, and cultural life, and is the capital of the
Province of Ontario.
,What was the outlet to the Atlantic Ocean from Toronto - answer St
Lawrence river
Ancient Toronto - answer early inhabitants fished and gathered but
relied mainly on hunting caribou, as well as mammoths, mastodons ,
and smaller tundra and animals, in a region consisting of boreal
forest.
New Crops and emergence of Iroquois Cultures - answer The climate
had warmed to a point comparable to modern levels, which allowed
for a new kind of temperate forest environment to evolve in
southern Ontario.
During this transition, much of the big game became extinct, the
caribou drifted north, but white-tailed deer moved in to take their
place.
Another development that helped to define the Toronto area
occurred between roughly 7,000 and 2,000 years ago: rising water
levels in Lake Ontario and soil erosion from Scarborough Bluffs
created the Toronto Islands, the harbour, and a mainland shoreline
similar to the modern one.
What is the Toronto Passage - answer A convenient shortcut
between Lake Ontario in the south and Georgian Bay in the north.
Main branches of this route ran north from the Humber and Rouge
rivers, across the Oak Ridges Moraine, into the Lake Simcoe
drainage basin, and then to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, and the
world beyond.
What increased the cultural maturity in the emergence of Iroquoian
cultures - answer Physically, the increasing cultural maturity
represented by the introduction of such technological innovations
as pottery and bows and arrows
Apart fromchange of technologies in North American, what was
introduced in Ontariofromthesouth - answer corn beans squash
sunflower and tobacco
, What do scholars disagree on the introduction of new items -
answer They disagree on whether the important crops of beans and
squash time as corn or if they came in subsequent centuries. and
horticultural societies that emerged in Ontario arose from within the
existing, long-standing population, or consisted of other native
people who moved here from the south, or were a mix of indigenous
and immigrant groups.
What came with the important shift of adapting to horticulture -
answer People slowly abandoned much of the mobility that had
characterized life in southern Ontario for thousands of years. All
travelling from eat to west and north to south
In its place developed semi permanent villages were developed,
from which people moved out during parts of the year to hunt, fish,
gather, or otherwise meet their subsistence needs as supplements
to the farming that lay at the heart of their work. Men moving out of
village during part of year Gatherings that got people out of villages
to go to the next village semi permanent because they had spring
and summer camps and villages to travel too
Iroquioan Villages - answer ypically lasted from 10 to 20 years
before their inhabitants relocated to new sites when the longhouses
deteriorated, the fields became sterile and infertile, and people had
to walk longer distances for firewood and other necessities that
previously had been found close to home.
After being abandoned, the old stockades and longhouses could be
taken apart for building materials and firewood but eventually the
forest reclaimed the former village sites and the soil gradually
regained its fertility.
Arrival of European Goods (But not Europeans) - answer In 1534, the
French sailor Jacques Cartier journeyed up the St Lawrence River as
far as modern Montreal.
