Canada's Landform Regions
Plate Tectonics
Landform Regions of the World
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100
This land form region is known as the bread basket of Canada
What is the interior plains
100
This is the layer of the earth that we live on
What is the crust?
100
A natural physical feature of the earth's surface such as a plateau, mountain range or plain
What is a landform
100
This is the name given to a group of mountains
What are mountain ranges?
100
This is the name given to low areas between hills, usually with a river running through it
What is a Valley
200
This land form region contains the newest mountains in Canada
What is the Western Cordillera
200
This is the name given to the hot molten rock layer of the earth of which the continental plates float
What is the mantle?
200
This land form region is created from magma escaping from below the Earth's surface
What is a Volcano
200
This is the name given to several mountain ranges grouped together
What is a mountain chain?
200
This the study of the earth’s landscapes, peoples, places, environments.
What is Geography?
300
This land form region is the largest and oldest in Canada, the rocky nature of this land form makes farming quite difficult
What is the Canadian Shield
300
This is felt when especially at plate boundaries when tectonic plates collide
What are earth quakes
300
This mountain range is the continuation of the rocky mountains in south america
What are the Andes?
300
The Canadian Shield is rich on these three minerals
What is nickle, copper and zinc?
300
These are formed by the action of moving plates tectonics which bends rock layers upwards
What are fold mountains?
400
This is the Land form region we live on, it is also the smallest land form region in Canada
What is the Great lakes St Lawrence lowlands
400
This scientist came up with the theory of plate tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegener?
400
How tall does a hill have to be, to be considered a mountain
What is 600m
400
This mountain range is found on the eastern coast of north america, and features very old and rounded mountains
What are the Appalachian mountains?
400
This is the seasonal weather patterns observed over many years
What is climate?
500
This high arctic land form region is often overlooked, it features mountains and cold harsh arctic temperatures
What are the Innuitian mountains?
500
Besides the shape of the continents this was presented as evidence of continental drift
What is fossil evidence
500
Along with the Andes, this mountain range is the longest in the world
What are the Himalayas
500
Besides the Interior Plains and the Great Lakes - St Lawrence lowlands arctic lowlands, these are the other two Plains regions of Canada
What are the Arctic Low lands and the Hudson's Bay Low lands?
500
This is given to the large pieces of buoyant rock that forms the crust
What are tectonic plates?
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