Plate Tectonics
All seven continents used to exist as it
What is Pangea?
Three main types of rock
What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
The two types of glaciers
What are alpine and continental glaciers?
It is a physical feature of the surface of the Earth that has characteristics or has a recognizable shape, which is produced by natural causes
What is a landform region?
Definition of natural disasters
What are powerful natural events that can cause big damage to the environment and people's lives?
Occurs when plate boundaries converge
What is one plate sliding underneath the other?
Process forms igneous rock
What is cooling/solidification?
The type of glacier that stays at ground level, and covers a lot of ground
What is a continental glacier?
Landform region that makes up about 50% of Canada
What is the Canadian Shield?
What are earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and wildfires?
How plate boundaries move
What is convection currents?
Process forms sedimentary rock
What is compaction/cementation?
The type of glacier that forms in mountainous regions
What is an alpine glacier?
Around 50%
What is the percentage of population in Canada who live in Great Lakes-St. Lawerence Lowlands landform region?
How climate change affects natural disasters
What is making many natural disasters worse and more dangerous?
All types of plate boundaries
What are divergent, convergent and transform boundaries?
Process forms metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
How the process of glaciation occurs
What is the formation, the movement and the recession of glaciers?
The three highland landform regions that make up Canada
What are the Appalachians, the Inuitians and the Western Cordillera?
It is the most affected natural disaster by an increase in temperature
What are wildfires?
3 different types of topographic features that occur through plate boundaries
What are mountains, volcanoes and oceanic trenches?
Five types of processes in the rock cycle
What are weathering/erosion, compactions/cementation, heat/pressure, melting and cooling/solidification processes?
The definition of a glacier
What is a slow moving mass or river of ice formed by the compaction of snow?
All seven of the landform regions that make up Canada
What are the Canadian Shield, Interior Plains, Great Lakes-St. Lawerence Lowlands, Hudson Bay Arctic Lowlands, the Appalachian, the Inanition Mountains and the Western Cordillera?
Affective methods to help reduce climate change
What are Walking, biking, or using public transportation to reduce car pollution, recycling and reusing items to decrease waste, planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide and cool the environment and supporting policies and leaders that prioritize climate action all examples of?