Landform Regions
What is the largest landform region in Canada?
What is the Canadian Shield
Why does it get colder further away from the equator?
The sun shines less directly away from the equator.
The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangea?
This is the term for loose pebbles, sand, and small rocks that break off of bigger rocks due to weathering and erosion.
What are sediments?
This is the term for day-to-day observations in atmospheric conditions.
What landform region consists of young mountains, rivers, trees, and lakes?
What is the Western Cordillera?
This LOWERN factor mostly explains why Hamilton is colder than Miami.
What is latitude?
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
This type of rock forms from immense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
When measuring earthquake intensity, we measure the amplitude of these waves.
What are seismic waves?
This landform region is home to 1/3 of Canada's population.
What is Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands
Explain how elevation affects the climate of a region.
The higher you go, the less air particles there are to trap heat from the sun.
These three pieces of evidence helped shape the theory of continental drift.
1. Similar fossils found on different continents
2.Similar rocks (type and age) found on different continents
3. Continents fit together like a puzzle.
1. It can melt into magma/lava
2. It can undergo erosion and become sediment
3. It an undergo heat/pressure and become metamorphic.
You can view any geographic topic through these four perspectives.
If you were an oil company, you probably have an oil rig located somewhere in this landform region.
What are the Interior Plains?
Explain how Relief affects the climate of a region.
As moist air moves up in elevation, it rises, cools, and rains on that side of the mountain range. As the air passes over the mountain, the conditions are dryer.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
We classify rocks based on these three criteria.
What are colour, texture, and minerals?
This concept helps explain everything from the movement of tectonic plates, to the movement of air in the atmosphere.
Part of this landform region goes through New Brunswick
What are the Appalachians?
Water holds its heat much longer than air. As a result, water moderates the temperature of a region. In the winter it doesn't get as cold, and in the summer, it doesn't get as hot.
This type of plate boundary helps explain how explosive volcanoes form.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
Lava that cools quickly is this type of rock. Name the type of rock, and describe some of the physical features.
There are three main reasons why most Canadians live in this landform region. Name the region, and list the reasons.
What is Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands?
1. It's warm
2. It's close to lots of fresh water (great lakes)
3. It has good soil