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© Norma Joseph/RGS Picture Library © Norma Joseph/RGS Picture Library

This photo shows some spectators in the SkyDome in Toronto, Canada.

The SkyDome is a multi-sport centre, the home of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team and the Toronto Argonauts Canadian Football team.

It offers scope for secondary-school students to consider leisure and recreation, and the geography of sport.

  • On which continent do you think this photograph was taken?
  • Can you say what these people are doing?
  • What other activities, economic and sporting, might take place in and around the SkyDome? What other buildings might be located nearby? Say whether you think these would have existed before the SkyDome was built.
  • Look at the website for the SkyDome and find out a variety of information, e.g. what it looks like from the outside, and what capacity audience it can hold.
  • What impact does this building have on the immediate environment?
  • Think about how the SkyDome and other large stadiums affect the lives of people living around them. In what ways will the people benefit? In what ways will they suffer?

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