These were formed in the Paleozoic era when layers of sedimentary rock were uplifted and folded. This occurred when North America collided with Europe and Northern Africa.
What are the Appalachians?
100
This climate region has the lowest precipitation in Canada.
What is the Arctic?
100
In the MOMA acronym, the letter O represents this part of soil.
What is organic materials and bacteria?
100
300 million years ago all of the earth's land masses collided to form this supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
100
27 degree range, 700 annual precipitation
What is a continental climate?
200
This landform was created during the Precambrian era. It has a thin topsoil due to glaciation.
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
Mountain barriers create this climate condition.
What is relief precipitation?
200
In areas where there is a great deal of precipitation, the continued downward movement of water is know as what process.
What is leaching?
200
The inner and outer core is composed of these 2 elements.
What are iron and nikel?
200
This is caused when air moves from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas.
What is wind?
300
This landform was created during the Mesozoic era when the North American plate moved northward.
What are the Innuitian Mountains?
300
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What is continental Arctic?
300
Ottawa is located in this vegetation region.
What is mixed forest?
300
This theory states that the earth's outer shell is made up of about twenty plates.
What is plate tectonics?
300
A long-term pattern of weather.
What is climate?
400
The collision of the North American and Pacific plates is responsible for uplifting this region into several mountains ranges about 680km wide.
What is the Western Cordillera?
400
This is the acronym used to identify the factors that effect climate.
What is LOWERN?
400
The boreal and taiga forest consists mainly of these types of trees.
What is coniferous?
400
The formation of the Rocky Mountains were completed in this era.
What is the Cenozoic?
400
This has a moderating effect on land temperatures.
What is water?
500
The region consists of two parts separated by a thin wedge of the Canadian Shield.
What are the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence lowlands?
500
This is the boundary between cold, dry polar air and warm, moist tropical air.
What is the polar front?
500
This region has tall trees and a temperate rainforest.
What is West Coast Forest?
500
This type of rock is formed when hot, melted magma rises from the deep under the earth's crust and then cools and hardens.