Natural Disasters
Where do we have volcanic activity in Canada?
British Columbia or Yukon
The first ingredient needed to form a rock is this.
Sediment
This is the oldest landform in Canada.
Canadian Shield
The name of the supercontinent that used to exist 335 million years ago.
Pangaea
What type of plate movement must be present for an earthquake to occur?
Convergent
Igneous rock is found in this province.
British Columbia
This is the youngest landform region in Canada.
The Hudson Bay-Arctic Lowlands
The type of plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past one another.
Transform
Where do most floods occur in Canada?
The Prairies
This type of rock involves the transformation of other rocks.
Metamorphic
This landform region has mountains are more like rolling hills because they have had time to erode.
The Appalachian Mountains
This type of plate boundary creates oceans and trenches.
Divergent
What other natural disaster contributed to the floods that happened in Merritt, British Columbia?
Forest fires
This type of rock is found in the Prairie provinces.
Sedimentary
The Prairie provinces used to be covered by this.
An ancient sea/water
He was credited with The Theory of Plate Tectonics
J. Tuzo Wilson
Why did they stop mining Turtle Mountain?
The price of coal went down
There are 3 main types of rock. Ms. Cook's cat, Granite, belongs to this type.
Igneous
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Explain 3 pieces of evidence to support the idea of continental drift.
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