Physical Characteristics of Canada
Canada is bordered by this many oceans.
What is 3
This earthquake/tsunami combo happened on boxing day 2004, and was rated as a magnitude 9.1
What is the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
The theory that the earth's outer shell is made up of individual plates that move
What is plate tectonics
This category of hurricane has the power to destroy framed homes, destroy the environment and completely isolate residents for many weeks while clean up commences.
What is a category 5 hurricane
The definition of "continental climate."
What is climate in areas that are far from oceans.
Canada contains over 60% of the worlds...
What is fresh water lakes
This scale can predict the severity of a tornado, and how much damage it is expected to cause.
What is the Fujita Scale
When two plates move towards each other
What is convergent
This category of hurricane has the power to cause damage to shingles on roofs, and rip large branches off of trees.
What is a category 1 hurricane
This term in geography means the shape of the surface of the land
What is relief
The Second Largest ocean in the world borders Canada’s east coast. With an area of about 106,460,000 square kilometers, it is home to a very diverse range of ocean life. It is also considered the saltiest of the world’s oceans.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
This weather system rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an “eye” in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is a hurricane
The process of heavier oceanic plates sliding underneath continental plates
What is subduction
This category of hurricane has winds that are between 96-110 miles per hour.
What is a category 2
This hurricane has winds of over 157 miles per hour. Hurricane Katrina was one of these.
What is a category 5 hurricane
This ocean is home to the deepest part of the world, and borders on the west coast of Canada
What is the Pacific Ocean
The majority of casualties after this weather event are often caused by collapsing buildings, mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis.
What is an earthquake
In these locations, plates move in roughly parallel but opposite directions
What are transform boundaries
Hurricane Ian was this category of hurricane
What is a category 4 hurricane
This is an important factor in determining how warm a climate is
Our civilization is currently in this epoch
What is the holocene
Hurricanes can only form over large bodies of water that are 80 degrees fahrenheit or higher with a quickly cooling atmosphere. This other condition must be met in order for a hurricane to form.
What is wind blowing in the same direction and at the same speed to force air upward from the ocean surface.
This plate is subducting under the North American plate
What is the Juan de Fuca plate
This hurricane has sustained winds of up to 129 mph
What is a category 3 hurricane
What is the 2004 boxing day earthquake and tsunami, and the countries impacted were Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Kenya and Somalia.