What is the process of ice advancing and covering large areas of land.
100
What acronym can be used to describe climate change?
What is LOWERN.
100
Three KEY Questions Geographers Ask?
What is where? Why there? Why care?
100
The prairies cover which provinces?
What is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
200
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
The theory that earths outer shell is made up of several individual plates that move along the earths mantle.
200
why is glaciation important?
It only ended one minute ago in our geological year.
200
How does latitude affect climate?
The closer to the equator the more direct sunlight received.
200
A relationship that exists between different patterns and trends.
What is interrelationships.
200
I am the oldest and largest landform region in Canada.
What is the Canadian shield.
300
What are the three types of plate movements? DRAW THE MOVEMENT
What is divergent (Move apart), Convergent (Move towards each other), Transform (plates move parallel).
300
what are the subdivisions of erosion?
1. Removal of materials
2. Change drainage patterns
300
What is maritime climate?
Climate in areas near an ocean. The annual temperature range is small and precipitation is high.
300
The importance of a particular location in geography.
What is spatial significance.
300
What are the three lowland areas?
What is the Interior plains, the great lakes and St.lawrence lowlands and Hudson Bay-Artic Lowlands.
400
He helped prove the theory.
Who is J Tuzu Wilson
400
what is the subdivision of deposition?
By ice
1. Till plains
2. Moraines
By Meltwater
3. By moving
4. By still water
400
What does R in the LOWERN stand for?
What is Relief, the shape of the surface of the land.
400
Two definitions follow, what is the term?
The part of the country where there is continuous, permanent settlement.
The part of the country where there are significant patches of settlement.
What is continuous ecumene, and discontinuous ecumene.
400
What are the Highland regions?
Western Cordillera
Innuitian Mountains
Appalachian mountains
500
How many major plate exist? How many minor plates exist?
What is 7 major plates, eight secondary and over 60 minor plates.
500
How many times has this land seen glaciation and why does it NOT matter.
4, all effects have been removed.
500
what is global warming.
What is the process by which the earth is warming up due to trapped green house gases such as carbon dioxide.
500
What is the Geographic Inquiry Process?
1. Formulate questions
2.Gather and organize information
3.Interpret and analyze the information
4.Evaluate and conclusions
5.Communicate conclusions to others