🗺️ Landform Regions
What is the largest landform region in Canada?
Canadian Shield
What are the three main types of plate boundaries?
Convergent, divergent, and transform
What is glaciation?
The process where glaciers shape and modify Earth's landscape.
What is a watershed?
An area of land where all water drains into the same body of water.
Name the 3 rock types.
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
Which landform region contains mountains on the west coast?
Western Cordillera or Rocky Mountains
At which type of boundary do two tectonic plates move apart?
Divergent
What is erosion?
The process where rocks are broken down by natural forces such as wind or water.
What process changes liquid water into water vapour?
Evaporation
How does igneous rock form?
From cooling of magma or lava.
Which landform region is known for its flat land, making it useful for agriculture?
Interior Plains
At which type of boundary do two plates move toward each other?
Convergent
Which landform regions were heavily affected by glaciers?
Canadian Shield & Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands
What process occurs when water vapour cools and becomes liquid water?
Condensation
What type of rock forms from layers of sediment that become compacted and cemented?
Sedimentary
Which landform region was most affected by glaciation?
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands
What happens at a transform boundary?
Two plates slide horizontally past one another.
Name two ways glaciers can change a landscape
They can carve valleys, scrape bedrock, transport sediment, and create lakes.
Name three processes in the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation and precipitation
What type of rock forms when existing rock is changed by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
What created the barren rocks of the Canadian Shield?
Volcanic eruptions. The lava cooled into rock that weathered and eroded over time.
What plate boundary forms mountains?
Convergent
Which landform region is heavily affected by erosion?
Appalachian Mountains
What primary watershed is Oshawa a part of?
Great Lakes or Atlantic Ocean
What are the 3 ways rocks can change in the rock cycle?
Heat & pressure, melting & cooling, weathering & erosion