Canada's Landform Regions
This Region has lots of mountains. Eg. the Rockies
What is the Cordillera?
Long-term pattern of weather in a certain region
What is climate?
The natural occurring unconsolidated organic and mineral material that serves as a medium for plant growth.
Different regions which have different types of vegetation which characterize it.
What is a vegetation region?
What is an ecozone?
This Region is good for farming as well as mining some minerals.
What is the Interior Plains?
Name 3 factors that influence climate
What are latitude, elevation, landmass, wind and pressure systems, ocean currents?
The different layers observable in soil.
What is soil horizon?
Vegetation where ecological processes primarily determine species and site characteristics.
What is natural vegetation?
This environment type is characterized by trees, and woody vegetation.
What are forests?
This Region is the most densely populated region in Canada
What is the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
What is precipitation?
This creates a 'soil profile' seen in the layers of soil.
Vegetation with a distinctive structure, composition, and development determined by human activity
What is cultural vegetation?
This ecozone is cold, dry, barren, and has permafrost.
What is tundra?
What is the Appalachian Region?
What is weather?
This organic and mineral material that makes up soil and determines its type.
What is Parent Material?
Name 4 of the seven vegetation regions
This ecozone is dominated by grasses, and has a semi-arid climate.
What is grassland?
What is the Arctic Lands?
What are ocean currents?
These help sustain the soil, stop erosion, and recycle nutrients from lower to upper layers.
What are Living Organisms?
Mix yellow and blue to make this color, of vegetation
what is green?
This ecozone is characterized by its lack precipitation, and cacti!
What is the desert?????