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100
What are the seven landform regions of Canada?
1. The Canadian Shield
2. The Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowlands
3. The Appalachians
4. Interior Plains
5. Western Plains
6.The Intuitions
7. The Arctic
100
Where is a very common place in Canada to have earthquakes?
Vancouver
100
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is day to day occurrences (Today its sunny and 25 degrees with a 30% chance of rain)
Climate is what the average annual weather is in a region (Vancouver has a very wet, cool climate)
200
What is a scientist that studies geography called?
Geoligist
200
What are the 3 types of scales?
Linear, verbal, representative fractions
200
What are the 4 types of rock in the rock cycle?
Sedimentary, metamorphic, magma, igneous
200
how does an earthquake occur?
When one tectonic plate shifts under another.
200
List some factors that affect climate?
Ocean Currents
Elevation
Latitude/Location
Near Water
Wind
300
How many time zones in Canada?
7
300
Convert 1:500 000 to a verbal scale. (Hint: move the decimal on the big number to the left ____ spaces)
5 km
300
What is some evidence that continental drift occurred?
Continents fitting together like puzzle pieces
Similar fossils and plants on coastlines of continents across from each other
mountain ranges of similar build on opposite continents
300
What forms a volcano?
A divergent boundary pulls apart and magma from the Earths core comes up, forming a volcano.
300
How many vegetation regions are in Canada?
7
400
What is the famous line of longitude?
Prime Meridian
400
What is the capital city of Manitoba?
Winnipeg
400
What was the super continent? Who developed the theory?
Pangea, Alfred Wagener
400
What is the red flowing hot stuff called when its inside a volcano? whats it called when its outside?
Magma, Lava
400
how is average annual temperature calculated?
Add up all the monthly average temps then divide by 12
500
What are the 4 geological time zones in order from oldest to recent?
Precambrian, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
500
If it is 4pm in St. Johns what time is it in Halifax?
3:30 pm
500
Describe the Canadian Shield.
composed of igneous rock and metamorphic rock, very thin soil, rolling hills, many marshes, oldest area of Canada
500
If an earthquake happens underwater by Alaska, could Hawaii feel the affects of it? Would it be very damaging?
Yes and yes
500
Explain Canada's tree line
A line of trees where below it there is lots of vegetation but above it there is very little and almost no trees at all. If you flew over Canada there would be a distinctive line of trees that would fade out going north.