Canadian Landforms
This mountain range west of us stretches 4,828 km from British Columbia, down to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This Canadian city is the most populated city in the nation.
What is Toronto?
Name 3 non-renewable resources.
What is coal, oil, natural gas, minerals, metals, etc.
W.E.D. is an acronym for these geological processes.
What is Weathering, Erosion and Deposition?
Name a type of climate.
What is Tropical, Dry, Temperate, Polar, Continental, Arid, etc.
These three oceans border our nation.
What is the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean?
The Ring of Fire is a ring of what in the Pacific Ocean?
What are volcanoes?
Name the resource that Ontario has phased out, except for metallurgical purposes.
What is coal?
This is the name for an icy formation, usually found in valleys and between mountains.
What is a glacier?
Name a human-made cause of climate change.
What is burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, etc.
This is the Canadian landform region we live in.
What is the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Lowlands?
Name three countries in Europe.
What are France, England, Germany, Denmark, Italy, etc.
Name the types of resources, plus two examples for each.
What is Renewable (Wildlife, Trees), Continuous (Solar, Wind), and Non-Renewable (Minerals, Coal).
Wind and ocean waves shaping a cliff is an example of this process.
What is weathering?
Oil spills mostly impact which part of our environment?
What are our oceans?
These are the names of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior?
To our east, this is the name of the mountain range that runs through our Atlantic provinces.
What are the Appalachians?
This country uses the most solar energy.
What is China?
This is the name for when glaciers and ice sheets reflect sunlight.
What is the albedo effect?
What is the meaning of net-zero?
Net-zero refers to balancing the emissions we humans make with nature's ability to remove it from our atmosphere. (Answers may vary.)
These are our 13 provincial and territorial capitals, plus the national capital.
What is Victoria, Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Iqaluit, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Quebec City, Charlottetown, Fredericton, Halifax, St. John's and Ottawa?
This is the other name for the continent "Australia."
What is Oceania?
Russia has the most of this resource, with an estimated 642 billion. Canada has 318 billion of this resource.
What are trees?
This is the type of plate boundary of the San Andreas Fault Line.
What is a transform plate boundary?
Explain why fossil fuels are so bad for our planet.
Answers may vary.