Geographical Regions
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Natural Disasters
100
This region has permafrost all year long, only allowing small plants to grow.
What is the Arctic?
100
The captial city of this province is Toronto
What is Ontario?
100

This is the process where water changes from a liquid to a gas due to heat

What is evaporation?

100

The Earth's crust is broken into large, moving pieces called this

What is Plate Tectonics?

100

This type of storm forms over warm ocean waters and has strong winds and heavy rain.

What is a hurricane?

200
This region was created by glaciers during the last Ice Age.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
This is the smallest province
What is Prince Edward Island?
200

This stage of the water cycle happens when water vapor cools and forms clouds.

What is a condensation?

200
We can make bread from this natural resource which is produced mostly in the Interior Plains.
What is wheat?
200

Sudden shaking of the Earth's crust caused by tectonic movement.

What is an earthquake?

300
This is the region that Kitchener-Waterloo is located in. It has plains and hills, forests with both deciduous and coniferous trees and hot humid summers.
What is the St. Lawrence Lowlands?
300
They call this province the 'rock'
What is Newfoundland and Laborador?
300

Water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail in this process.

What is percipatation?

300

The boundary where two plates slide past each other, often causing earthquakes.

What is the Transform Boundary.


300

A giant wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.

What is a tsunami?

400
This region has mountain ranges which were created millions of years ago when folds of rocks pushed up on each other.
What is the Cordillera?
400
This territory borders Alaska
What is the Yukon?
400

The movement of water soaking into the ground is known as this.

What is a Infiltration?

400
A non-renewable resource cannot be replaced once it has been used up. Name one non-renewable resource that is produced in Canada.
What is oil, natural gas, minerals, coal?
400

This natural disaster occurs when molten rock erupts from the Earth's surface.

What is a volcanic eruption?

500
Name all six of the geographical regions in Canada
What is the Cordillera, the Interior Plains, the Arctic, the Canadian Shield, the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Appalachian Highlands?
500
This was the last province or territory to be established in Canada.
What is Nunavut?
500

This term describes when water flows over the ground instead of soaking in.

What is run off?

500

Name the three things inside the earth.

What are Core, Mantel and Crust?

500

This type of storm brings strong rotating winds and forms over land.

What is a tornado?