Glaciers
The EARTH
Mapping Skills
Landforms
Geologic era's
100

A large section of snow and ice that is packed down over time and does not melt in the summer months.

What is a Glacier

100

The earth is how many years old?

what is 4.6 billion years

100

What colour do we use for water

What is Blue

100

This is Canada's oldest landform region.

What is Canadian shield.

100

Dinosaurs ruled the earth during this era.

What is the Mesozoic Era. 

200

These are two types of glaciers. One found in mountainous areas and the other found on land.

What is Alpine and Continental

200
Name the 4 parts to the earth.

What is the crust, mantle, inner and outer core

200

There are how many basic features on a map? Can you name them all

6: Title, Legend, Compass, Border, Date, Scale

200

What landform region do we live in

Great lakes St Lawerence.

200

This era was known as the age of the reptiles 

What is the Paleozoic era.

300

These lines tell us what way a glacier is moving.

What is a striation.

300

Plates that pull away from each other are known as. 

What are divergent plate boundaries

300

23.5N is what type of line?

what is the Tropic of Cancer.

300

A Flat, swampy, mosquito infested swamp and muskeg is known as this landform region

Hudson's Bay lowlands

300

What killed off the dinosaurs 

What is a meteor off the coast of mexico.

400

This process breaks down the glacier over time. 

What is weather and erosion

400

These types of rocks can only have fossils it in? whys is that

Sedimentary. Layers pack the fossil in and they don't become other rocks.

400

This line divides the earth into 2 pieces East and West.

What is the Prime Meridian.

400

An extremely cold, barren, ice covered landscape of relatively young mountains is what landform region

Innuition Mountains 
400

Canada is home to this type of Dinosaur 

Albertasaurs

500

These phenomenon's occur normally in Quebec and are often seen as inverted spoons. 

What are Drumlins

500

These types of disasters only happen at this plate boundary what are they

What are Earthquakes and transform/slip boundaries

500

Compare the differences between small and large scale maps

small scale shows alot of detail for a specific region where large scale shows little detail for a non specific region

500

Why does the Interior plain have such a large supply of natural gas and oil?

Dino bones from an ancient sea bed

500

Researchers think that dinosaurs once had these on their bodies

What is feathers

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