Landforms
Plate Tectonics
Climate
Rock Cycle
Soil
100
It is a mountain range along the West Coast of Canada.
What is the Western Cordilleras
100
The tectonic plate that North America is on.
What is the North American Plate?
100
The current coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
It is formed by cooling magma
What is Igneous rock?
100
This is caused by the rotting of plant and animal matter.
What is topsoil formation?
200
Flat and dry in Central Canada.
What is the Interior Plains?
200
The plate subducting under The North American Plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
200
Canada's prevailing winds.
What are the Westerlies?
200
This is the only type of rock that fossils can survive in.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This soil type is found in the Southern Parts of Canada's Prairie.
What is dry soil?
300
most of Canada's population lives here.
What is Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
These were discovered by J. Tuzo Wilson.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The area leeward of a mountain that gets very little rain.
What is a rain shadow?
300
Examples of this include clay, silt, or sand.
What are sediments?
300
Complex soils form on this type of landform.
What are mountains?
400
The oldest part of Canada.
What is the Canadian Shield?
400
Alfred Wegner discovered it.
What is continental drift?
400
The climate factor that makes St. Johns the foggiest place on earth.
What are Ocean Currents
400
Granite is an example of this type of rock.
What is Igneous Rock?
400
This is the process in which salts are deposited on soil forming a hard layer.
What is calcification?
500
The era the Appalachians formed in.
What is the Paleozoic era?
500
Vancouver Island rests on it.
What is the Juan de Fuca Plate?
500
The main gas that is contributing to man made climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
500
The bedrock around the Guelph area is an example of this type of rock.
What is limestone?
500
Water, rain , and ice cause this.
What is erosion?
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