Canada's Landscape
This is a natural feature on the Earth's surface
What is a landform
These are pieces of Earth's Crust
What is a plate?
This is a naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose material on the surface of the earth, capable of supporting life
What is Soil?
This is a naturally occurring solid, inorganic substance which can either be metallic or non-metallic
What is mineral?
This the movement of broken down material
What is Erosion
This category of landform regions include the Canadian Shield and Interior Plains
What are the Interior Lands
When 2 plates move away from each other
What is Divergent?
River deltas, Oxbow Lakes and Canyons are all landscapes created by this.
What is water.
This is a collection of minerals
What is a rock
The end of erosion when materials come to a rest is called this.
What is Deposition
This landform region includes high rugged mountain ranges and are also known as the Rocky Mountains
What is a fault line?
This is an area of land that channels water from rainfall and snowmelt into different channels directing them downhill towards the ocean
What is a Watershed
This is the process by which rocks are created and broken apart
What is the rock cycle
Weathering that is caused by living things is called this.
What is biological weathering
This is the smallest landform region. It features low, gently rolling plains and very fertile soil and is south of the Canadian Shield.
What is the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands.
The area where one plate sinks below another
What is the Subduction Zone?
Soil is made up of these 4 components.
What are minerals, Organic Material, Moisture and Air
Heat and pressure create this type of rock
What is Metamorphic
When pieces of rock come loose and the glacier pulls them along with it
What is plucking
This landform region features that plains, low hills, wide river valleys, and alot of it is permanently frozen (permafrost)
What are the Arctic Lowlands
An underwater mountain range caused by Divergence
What is a mid ocean ridge?
You would find this major river in the Gulf of Mexico Watershed
What is the Mississippi River
Melting and Cooling create this type of rock
What is Igneous
The name of the glacier that covered most of Canada during the last ice age
What is the Laurentide Glacier