Population Patterns
Landforms
Geology
Climate
Soil and Vegetation
100
An urban area with more than 100 00 people. It extends beyond the borders of a city.
What is a census metropolitan area?
100
The three types of landforms in Canada.
What are highlands, lowlands and the Canadian Shield.
100
These type of rocks are created after millions of years of compaction and cementation of loose sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
When an air mass is forced to rise over a mountain range.
What is relief precipitation?
100
Horizon A is commonly referred to as this...
What is top soil?
200
This can also be used to show population distribution within a country.
What is an isodemographic map?
200
This landform is known as the storehouse of metallic materials?
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
This occurs when two tectonic plates move apart.
What is divergent plate movement?
200
This climate type typically has hot summers and cold winters.
What is continental climate?
200
This occurs in the soil of climates with lots of precipitation
What is leaching?
300
The number of people per square kilometer.
What is population density?
300
This is the most northernly landform.
What is the Innuitian Mountains?
300
When a heavier oceanic plate slides underneath a continental plate.
What is subduction?
300
An area with a temperature range of under 25 degrees is typical of this type of climate.
What is maritime climate?
300
Ottawa has this type of vegetation.
What is coniferous and deciduous trees?
400
The part of a country where there is continuous, permanent settlement.
What is continuous ecumene?
400
This landform was created when the North American plate collided with the Eurasian and African plates.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
The process of eroded materials building up in a new location.
What is deposition?
400
The moderating effect of water creates these climate conditions.
What is cooler summer and warmer winters?
400
This vegetation region consists of mostly coniferous trees.
What is boreal and taiga forest?
500
A population settlement settled along a line, such as a coastline, river, or highway.
What is linear population?
500
This landform was created by the action of glaciers scraping away and re-depositing material on the landscape.
What is the Great Lakes-St. Lawerence Lowlands?
500
A series of ridges, furrows, or linear marks. Can be caused by rocks embedded in the bottom of a glacier and dragged across bedrock.
What are striations?
500
The air mass which forms over central Canada.
What is continental polar?
500
The soil like under a coniferous forest is normally in this state.
What is acidic?
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