Created when more snow falls in a winter than can be melted during the following summer.
What are Glaciers
100
Drives the processes that creates climate.
What is the Sun
100
Natural vegetation region that covers the largest portion of Canada.
What is Coniferous Forest
100
An area of land that supplies a river with its water.
What is a Drainage Basin
200
False
Canada has 4 maritime econzones. True or False?
200
Process by which small, weathered pieces of rock are carried by moving water, ice, or wind.
What is Erosion
200
The cause of global wind systems and ocean currents that carry heat across the globe.
What is unequal heating of the Earth
200
Term used to describe a group of living organisms that, along with their environment, form a self-regulating system through which energy and materials are transferred.
What is Ecosystem
200
The longest river in Canada, the Mackenzie River, empties into this body of water.
What is the Arctic Ocean
300
The ecozone that covers the majority of Ontario.
What is the Boreal Shield
300
A place where one plate slides below another, creating volcanoes on the surface.
What is a subduction zone
300
Two effects on nearby land created by large bodies of water.
What is moisture and moderation
300
Type of living organisms that obtain their food scavenging (among others)
What are Heterotrophs
300
Occupy the transition zone between premanently wet and generally dry environments
What are Wetlands
400
The landform region in Canada which covers the smallest area.
What is the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands
400
The forces that move the six major seperate plates that make up the Earth's crust.
What are Plate Tectonics
400
Precipitation caused by rapid condensation in moist air that cools as it rises up the side of a mountain.
What is Orographic (relief) precipitation
400
Type of living organisms that manufacture their own food.
What are Autotrophs
400
Process in which certain species of plants replace others.
What is Succession
500
A detailed large-scale map representing the surface features of a place or region, and their relative positions and elevations.
What is a Topographic Map
500
Name of the "super continent" that existed approximately 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea
500
Describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.
What is the Hydrologic cycle
500
Type of permafrost that can be found furthest South in Canada.
What is Alpine permafrost
500
A high point of land or ridge from which water runs in two or more directions.