Map of Canada
Capital of Ontario
Toronto
What landform is a very high area of land that often has steep sides?
What is a mountain?
What human activity changes natural landscapes into fields used to grow crops?
Agriculture (farming)
A rock breaks into smaller pieces after water freezes and expands in its cracks. What natural process is causing this change?
Weathering
If you compare a tectonic plate map and a world map of earthquakes, what pattern would you notice?
Most earthquakes occur along plate boundaries.
What is the capital city of Canada?
What is Ottawa?
What landform is a large area of mostly flat land?
What is a plain?
How does building cities, roads, and neighbourhoods change landforms?
Land is cleared, leveled, and reshaped to make space for development.
A river carries soil and small rocks downstream, slowly making a valley wider and deeper. What process is responsible?
Erosion
Why are many earthquakes found along tectonic plate boundaries?
Because the plates are moving and interacting at their boundaries.
Which province is located on the west coast of Canada and has Vancouver as its major city?
What is Vancouver?
Which landform is often formed when Earth's tectonic plates push against each other?
What is a mountain?
What human activity removes rock, soil, and minerals from the ground, often creating large pits or tunnels?
Mining
After a river slows down near its mouth, it drops the sediment it was carrying. What is this process called?
Deposition
Another name for a plateau is a . . .
Tableland
What are the three territories in northern Canada?
What are Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut?
Which landform is especially useful for farming because it often has wide, flat areas of fertile soil?
What are plains?
How can building a dam change a river and the surrounding landform?
It can flood land to create a reservoir and change the river's natural flow.
Scientists discover marine fossils at the top of a mountain. What does this evidence suggest about how the mountain formed?
The area was once underwater and was pushed upward by the movement and collision of tectonic plates (plate tectonics).
Why is it important for geographers and communities to understand the landforms in an area? Give two reasons.
Which province is bordered by Hudson Bay to the northeast and Saskatchewan to the west?
What is Manitoba?
What is the difference between fold mountains and volcanic mountains in how they are formed?
Fold mountains form when tectonic plates push together, causing layers of rock to fold and rise. Volcanic mountains form when lava, ash, and other volcanic materials build up around a volcanic opening.
A valley is flooded to create a reservoir, forests are cleared for farmland, and nearby land is excavated for minerals. Name the three human activities that caused these changes.
Dam construction/water diversion, agriculture, and mining.
Put these events in the correct order:
What natural processes match each step? (weathering, erosion, deposition)
We looked at a world map with major landform regions around the world. Explain one trend you noticed while looking at the map.
Example:
- Many major mountain ranges are found along the edges of continents.
-Large plains are often found in the middle of continents.
-Mountain ranges and plate boundaries are often found in the same locations.