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Introduction
Spheres
Climate
Vegetation & Water
More Than Just Dirt
100
Something that is made up of different parts that connect to form a whole.
What is a system?
100
Four spheres that make up the Earth and are interconnected.
What is the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
100
These six things define Canada's geographic regions.
What are landforms, climate, natural vegetation, soils, wildlife, and human activity.
100
A large region on the Earth which is named for the distinct characteristics of the plants that live in it.
What is a biome?
100
Researches are scrambling to invent these in a better way to try and enrich soils and to develop more adaptable high-tech seeds.
What are fertilizers?
200
These two systems shape the environment we live in.
What are natural and human systems?
200
This sphere surrounds the Earth with a thin layer of mixed gases that make up the air we breathe.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Canada's weather patterns and the weather in your local community are connected to a global system of climate that is made up of what three things?
What is the atmosphere, the circulation of water, and location of landforms?
200
This is the largest biome and natural ecosystem in the world.
What is the boreal forest?
200
Poisons that are designed to kill the pests that plague farmers' fields, but also kill many of the creatures that make the system function well.
What are pesticides?
300
A system that occurs in nature.
What is a natural system?
300
This sphere is broken up into a number of pieces called crustal plates.
What is the lithosphere?
300
More heat is received closer to this area, and less heat is received near these areas.
What is the equator and the poles?
300
Canada's rainforests.
What are temperate rainforests?
300
This refers to plant life, whereas this refers to animal life.
What is flora? What is Fauna?
400
Systems created by humans.
What is a human system?
400
All of the water on the Earth's crust - Salt, fresh, frozen. It also includes water stored in the organs of plants and animals.
What is the hydrosphere?
400
These are seven factors that influence our climate, and this is an acronym we can use to remember these factors.
What is Canada's vast size, latitude, ocean currents, winds and air masses, polar jet stream, diverse landscapes, and large bodies of water? What is J Blower?
400
Water that runs off the land into rivers and lakes.
What is runoff?
400
When you dig into the ground, you notice that soil is composed of many of these.
What are layers of different materials?
500
When two or more parts work together to produce an effect that is greater than the sum of its parts.
What is synergy?
500
This is the layer in which life evolves, and and supports all living things (millions of species of plants and animals that live on Earth, including humans.)
What is the biosphere?
500
People who study weather patterns, and use the jet stream to help their forecast predictions.
What are meteorologists?
500
An area of land from which all water received flows into a particular ocean.
What is a drainage basin?
500
Soils that are found in areas covered by forests.
What are podzols?