Layers of the Earth
Moving Parts
Landforms
Building Landforms
Randoms
Landform Regions
Canada's Climate
More Climate Stuff
It's getting hot in here
100
The innermost part of the earth
What is the core?
100
The name of the supercontinent that broke into plates and became the continents we know today
What is pangaea?
100
The word used to describe the height of a landform
What is elevation?
100
The heat in the earth's interior creates these in the earth's mantle
What is convection currents?
100
These are a result of uneven heating of earth's landforms and oceans, the rotation of the earth on its axis and its orbital path around the sun
What are wind and currents?
100
The oldest landform region in Canada
What is the Canadian Shield?
100
What the atmosphere is doing at a specific time and place
What is weather?
100
This is the rate of warming due to climate change in Canada in comparison to the rest of the planet
What is 3 times faster?
100
This allows some sunlight to reach and warm Earth's surface while some of the heat is then sent back into the atmosphere and long-wave infrared radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
The solid outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
200
The theory that the earth's plates are moving
What is continental drift?
200
The difference in elevation between different points on the earth's surface
What is relief?
200
These are created when plates separate and compress upward
What are fault block mountains?
200
This climate region doesn't exist in Canada
What is tropical?
200
The landform region in Canada that has the oldest mountains
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
200
The long-term patterns of the weather
What is climate?
200
Caused by earth's rotation, this force causes wind to move to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
These devour kelp forests at a rate of 9 metres in a month
What are sea urchins?
300
The middle layer of the earth between the crust and the core
What is the mantle?
300
The theory that the earth's plates move up against each other cause earthquakes, volcano eruptions, mountains and trenches
What is plate tectonics?
300
The steepness of slopes
What is gradient?
300
These are created when plates separate or collide downwards
What are trenches and/or rift valleys?
300
Over 70% of Canada has this kind of climate?
What is cool & moist?
300
The best landform region in Canada in which to grow wheat
What is the Interior Plains?
300
Because the earth is more curved at the poles, so the sun's radiation gets more spread out.
Why is it colder at the earth's poles?
300
Faster flowing air that moves through the main body of air; it can help your flight arrive faster or slower depending on which direction you're flying in
What is the jet stream?
300
Salmon carcasses left behind by _______ decompose and fertilize the forest
What are grizzlies and/or bears?
400
Thick, hot, liquid and slow moving rock within the earth
What is magma?
400
An area of the earth where one plate is being pushed underneath another
What is a subduction zone?
400
The study of types of rocks and the history of rocks
What is geology?
400
When the landform is changed by precipitation or wind
What is weathering?
400
The age that geologists believe the earth is
What is 4.5 billion years old?
400
The landform region that has "young" mountains but no trees?
What is the Innuitian Mountains?
400
The air above the ocean becomes the same temperature as the ocean
What is the impact the ocean has on the air?
400
Clouds & precipitation, ocean currents, latitude, and air masses and winds.
What are the elements of climate?
400
This group collects data about flooding in New Brunswick to help establish patterns about climate change impacts
What is River Watch?
500
Large sections of the earth's crust
What are plates?
500
The nickname of the plate that is surrounded by active volcanoes
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
500
This refers to the elevation, relief, gradient, geology, and general appearance of landforms
What is topography?
500
The process of the land being built up by eroded materials landing elsewhere and creating new shapes
What is deposition?
500
The base of a mountain region where the mountains have worn away
What is a shield?
500
The landform region that has swamp forests
What is the Hudson Bay Lowlands?
500
Earth's tilt and it's revolution around the sun causes these
What are seasons?
500
Bodies of water, altitude and mountain barriers.
What are regional factors on climate?
500
These absorb rain and help prevent flooding
What are wetlands?