Defined!
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
These are the three main layers of the Earth.
What are the Crust, Mantle, and Core?
This type of weather event is caused by the difference in air temperature and water temeprature.
What is a hurricane?
Canada is divided into this many Landform Regions.
What is Seven (7)?
This sea creature is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
What is a Shark?
This refers to all activities, both human and natural, that threaten biodiversity.
Biodiversity Pressure
The geographical area where approximately 75% of the world's active volcanoes are located.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Bill Nye says we can help biodiversity by doing these five things.
What are Recycle, Eat less meat, Don't waste water, Plant trees, and Speak up/Vote?
This region is flat, largely used for farming, and is located between the Western Cordillera and the Canadian Shield.
What are the Interior Plains?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any US State.
What is the letter Q?
A biological community of interacting living things and their physical environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
Physical processes have these two effects on the Earth.
What are build up and wear down?
Without this natural process that traps heat in our atmosphere, Earth would be a frozen wasteland with an average temperature of -18C.
What is the greenhouse has effect?
Canada’s largest landform region; it is made of ancient rock and contains thousands of lakes.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This animal has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an Octopus?
The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level, ensuring resources last for future generations.
What is Sustainability?
The name of the three types of plate movements (Divergent, Convergent, and Transform).
How do plates pull apart, push together, and slide past each other?
This is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional, and global climates.
What is Climate Change?
This region is located in Western Canada and is defined by young, tall, jagged mountains.
What is the Western Cordillera?
This is the most common name in the world.
What is Mohammed?
All the parts of the planet that are inhabited by living things; the sum of all Earth's ecosystems.
What is the Biosphere?
Scientists called this geographer a "silly little man."
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A volcano in this US state erupted live while we were completing the physical geography unit.
What is Hawaii.
The smallest landform region in Canada, but home to over half of Canada’s population.
What are the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands?
In SpongeBob SquarePants, this is the secret ingredient in a Krabby Patty.
What is nothing (or "love," depending on the theory)?