Dynamic Earth
This supercontinent broke apart about 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
This era is known as the “Age of Mammals.”
What is the Cenozoic Era?
This region is Canada’s largest physiographic region and contains ancient rock and many lakes.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This LOWERN factor explains why high mountains are colder at the top.
What is elevation?
The red line on a climate graph represents this.
What is temperature?
This German scientist proposed the idea of continental drift in 1915.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This eon makes up 90% of Earth’s history.
What is the Precambrian?
Flat, fertile plains suitable for farming and containing fossil fuels describe this landform region.
What are the Interior Plains (Lowlands)?
This term refers to the difference between the highest and lowest mean monthly temperatures.
What is temperature range?
Total precipitation on a climate graph is measured in these units.
What are millimeters (mm)?
This scientist created the theory of plate tectonics in 1968.
Who is John Tuzo Wilson?
These forces build Earth’s surface by creating mountains, volcanoes, and new land.
What are constructive forces?
This mountainous region includes the Rockies and is known for fjords, skiing, and young sharp peaks.
What is the Western Cordillera?
Canada’s weather mostly comes from this direction.
What are the westerly winds?
We have seasons because Earth is ___ and ___ the sun.
What are tilted and orbits?
What are divergent, convergent (+ subduction) and transform boundaries?
The era when dinosaurs lived and went extinct.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This Arctic region has high, young mountains but harsh climate and little settlement.
What are the Innuitian Mountains?
This is Canada’s wettest climate region, with mild winters and cool summers.
What is the Pacific Maritime region?
Sedimentary rock turns into metamorphic rock because of these two things.
What are heat and pressure?
These circular movements of hot rising rock and cool sinking rock move the tectonic plates.
What are convection currents?
Glaciers scraping and grinding the land as they move is an example of this type of force.
What are destructive forces?
These Atlantic mountains are old and eroded, forming rounded hills and coastal fishing communities.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Winds, air masses, and the Great Lakes make this region humid in summer and damp in winter.
What is the South-Eastern region?
This perspective focuses on money, goods, and services.
What is the economic perspective?